Hyde Park Jazz Festival

12/10/2024

It was a great honor to host Nikki Giovanni along with Javon Jackson in the 2023 Hyde Park Jazz Festival. What an extraordinarily powerful life. We celebrate and thank you, Nikki Giovanni. Photo by Marc Monaghan.

11/25/2024

The Chicago Black Artist Union ( ) Presents: 400 Years. Tickets are available now! Get yours (link in bio) and join us on December 5 at the .

With iterations being performed over the past five years, The Story of 400 Years by Isaiah Collier ( , and choreography by Kennedy Banks-Battle ( ) has evolved to reflect the tide of the times and show glimpses of our desired future. The long-awaited world premiere of the full 13-movement suite will also feature on-stage visual media by Jordan Stewart-Curet.

The work explores socio-musicology, ethnomusicology, and epigenetics, and beautifully marries music, choreography, and visual media.

11/25/2024

The HPJF is so excited to see this amazing project continue to evolve. Check it out!

"The Chicago Black Artist Union Presents: 400 Years. Tickets are available now! Get yours and join us on December 5 at the .

With iterations being performed over the past five years, The Story of 400 Years by Isaiah Collier, and choreography by Kennedy Banks-Battle has evolved to reflect the tide of the times and show glimpses of our desired future. The long-awaited world premiere of the full 13-movement suite will also feature on-stage visual media by Jordan Stewart-Curet.

The work explores socio-musicology, ethnomusicology, and epigenetics, and beautifully marries music, choreography, and visual media. "

10/06/2024

Thank you, Michael Jackson, for this review and photo essay.

Photos from the Hyde Park Jazz Festival's 18th year demonstrate the indomitable spirit that sustains this celebration of musical community.

10/05/2024

Wow, we can't believe it's been a week since we kicked off our 18th Annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival! We are so grateful to have been able to celebrate music and community with you again! Thank you to our amazing volunteers, venues, sponsors, collaborators, audience members, and all of the phenomenal musicians who performed. We are still beaming with joy from last weekend's festivities and are already looking forward to doing it again next year 💚

Stay tuned for more updates about our programs!

P.S. Save the dates September 27th and 28th 2025 for the 19th Annual HPJF! 🕺🏽💃🏽🎷

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09/29/2024

What an incredible day! Thank you all for coming out to the first day of the Hyde Park Jazz Festival! See you on Sunday for DAY 2!

09/27/2024

The Hyde Park Jazz Festival starts TOMORROW!!

Check out our mobile program via the link in our bio to help you plan your visit!

09/26/2024

2 DAYS UNTIL THE HYDE PARK JAZZ FESTIVAL!

Check out our mobile program via the link in our bio to help you plan your visit!

09/25/2024

🚐 Did you know that we offer a FREE bus service to help you quickly move around the festival site? 🚐 Festival buses are ADA and arrive at each stop every 10-15 minutes. Check out our mobile program via the link in our bio to learn more. 🚍

09/25/2024

3 DAYS UNTIL THE HYDE PARK JAZZ FESTIVAL!

Check out our mobile program via the link in our bio to help you plan your visit!

09/21/2024

Sending a huge congratulations to our friends at the Englewood Jazz Festival for another amazing year! Will we see you there tomorrow?

09/20/2024

🗣️ ARTIST FEATURE | WILLIE JONES III QUINTET: “OUR MAN HIGGINS” FEATURING JEREMY PELT

🔹SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
🔹TIME: 8:00PM-9:15PM
🔹VENUE: WAGNER STAGE. MIDWAY PLAISANCE AT SOUTH WOODLAWN AVE.

Our Man Higgins is a project created by drummer Willie Jones III to explore music to which master drummer Billy Higgins contributed during his remarkable career. You can expect to hear tunes by Ornette Coleman, Lee Morgan, Hank Mobley, Cedar Walton, and others in this not-to-be-missed performance. In addition to his singular contributions to jazz performance, Higgins was a deeply committed community builder. In 1989, he founded The World Stage in Los Angeles to advance the position of African-American music, literature, and art. The World Stage continues to this day and remains an important cultural center for creative exploration and artistic development.

Learn more about Willie Jones III Quintet: "Our Man Higgins" Featuring Jeremy Pelt by following the link in our bio and mark your calendars for their performance!

09/20/2024

🗣️ ARTIST FEATURE | ROB MAZUREK EXPLODING STAR ORCHESTRA LIVE AT THE ADLER PLANETARIUM (FILM)

🔹SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
🔹TIME: 2:00PM-3:00PM; 3:15PM-4:00PM (FIRST SESSION INCLUDES 15 MINUTE TALK BACK WITH FILMMAKERS)
🔹VENUE: LOGAN CENTER SCREENING ROOM. 915 E 60TH STREET

On March 24 of last year, Rob Mazurek’s Exploding Star Orchestra used Chicago’s Adler Planetarium as a launch pad for a multimedia spectacle that broadcast a transcendental message to the cosmos. This video documents this singular performance, which featured original images by Mazurek projected onto the planetarium’s domed ceiling and the Orchestra’s hypnotic interpretations of music from the most recent Exploding Star Orchestra album, Lightning Dreamers (International Anthem, released 2024).

Learn more about Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra by following the link in our bio and mark your calendars for their performance!

09/19/2024

🗣️ ARTIST FEATURE |THE WHEREWITHAL

🔹SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
🔹TIME: 2:00PM-3:00PM
🔹VENUE: DUSABLE BLACK HISTORY MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTER. 740 EAST 56TH PL.

Raised in a close-knit community on the west side of Chicago, Justin Dillard attended both Vandercook College of Music and The Velvet Lounge as institutions of higher learning. A native of St. Louis, Missouri, Jeremy Clemons attended North Carolina Central University, where he studied drums set, harmony, jazz theory, arranging, and composition under the guidance of Ira Wiggins, Arnold George, and Thomas Taylor. Jeff Parker is known to many fans as the longtime guitarist for the Chicago-based quintet Tortoise, one of the most critically revered, sonically adventurous groups to emerge from the American indie scene of the early 90s. Coming together as The Wherewithal, this new group shapes a unique and soulful sound.

Learn more about The Wherewithal by following the link in our bio and mark your calendars for their performance!

09/19/2024

🗣️ ARTIST FEATURE | IMMANUEL WILKINS’ BLUES BLOOD

🔹SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
🔹TIME: 7:15PM-8:15PM
🔹VENUE: LOGAN CENTER PERFORMANCE HALL. 915 EAST 60TH ST.

Alto saxophonist and composer Immanuel Wilkins burst onto the music scene in 2020 with the release of his recording debut, Omega, featuring his longstanding quartet of Micah Thomas, Daryl Johns, and Kweku Sumbry.

Co-produced by Meshell Ndegeocello, and featuring Micah Thomas on piano, Rick Rosato on bass, Kweku Sumbry on drums, and vocalists Ganavya, June McDoom and Yaw Agyeman—as well as special guest appearances by vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant, guitarist Marvin Sewell, and drummer Chris Dave—Blues Blood is Wilkins’ most ambitious LP to date, a multimedia performance about the legacies of our ancestors and the bloodlines connecting us.

Learn more about Immanuel Wilkins' Blues Blood by following the link in our bio and mark your calendars for their performance!

09/18/2024

🗣️ ARTIST FEATURE | VICTOR GARCIA SEXTET

🔹SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
🔹TIME: 5:00PM-6:00PM
🔹VENUE: WEST STAGE. MIDWAY PLAISANCE AT SOUTH ELLIS AVE.

Grammy-nominated “young-lion trumpeter” (JazzChicago.net) and “ebullient soloist” (Chicago Tribune) Victor Garcia is as versatile as he is creative. His trumpet talent heralds his international acclaim. He also sings and plays percussion, and his songwriting, arrangements, and charts have led him to professorial positions at Roosevelt University, Loyola University, and the University of Illinois in Chicago.

Learn more about the Victor Garcia Sextet by following the link in our bio and mark your calendars for their performance!

09/14/2024

🗣️ ARTIST FEATURE | TATSU AOKI’S MIYUMI PROJECT

🔹SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
🔹TIME: 3:00PM-4:00PM
🔹VENUE: WEST STAGE. MIDWAY PLAISANCE AT SOUTH ELLIS AVE.

Tatsu Aoki’s MIYUMI Project is a cross-cultural music journey and one of the first Asian-American/African-American collaborative music projects to come out of the Midwest in the late 90s. This project illuminates the drum traditions of Japanese taiko and jazz in a musical approach that incorporates the drummer languages of each genre. Infusing Japanese-influenced aesthetics of accompaniment within the rhythm section, the group carries this concept of time into, through, and underneath the music as an essential and natural thread.

Learn more about Tatsu Aoki's Miyumi Project by following the link in our bio and mark your calendars for their performance!

09/14/2024

🗣️ ARTIST FEATURE | TABORN/REID/SMITH

🔹SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
🔹TIME: 5:15PM-6:15PM
🔹VENUE: LOGAN CENTER PERFORMANCE HALL. 915 EAST 60TH ST

Over a career stretching back more than twenty-five years, keyboardist Craig Taborn has demonstrated a commitment to collective music-making, even when his was the name headlining the marquee. This exciting new trio configuration, with drummer Ches Smith (whose own Bell Trio, with Mat Maneri, features Taborn) and cellist Tomeka Reid, explores a new set of groove-oriented compositions in which each musician twines melodic and rhythmic roles, harking back to the most hypnotic excursions of Sun Ra. Taborn doubles on acoustic and electric pianos, unleashing a spray of percussive clusters, glassy runs, and loop shapes, shadowed and pierced by Reid’s sinuous cello and Smith’s sparkling polyrhythms (and occasional glockenspiel melodies).

Learn more about Pharez Whitted Quintet by following the link in our bio and mark your calendars for their performance!