Featuring the traditional All-Star Global Concert, event is marking its 15th anniversary.

Programming and musical performances will kick off April 1 and culminate in an April 30 concert at Chicago’s Lyric Opera House, starring dozens of artists from around the world.

Chicago will host UNESCO’s International Jazz Day April 30, led by Herbie Hancock and a global Lyric Opera livestream.

The world's largest jazz gathering is coming to Chicago this year. This year marks the 15th International Jazz Day, which has been held across the globe. Some of the world’s greatest jazz performers ...

This year’s Chicago Jazz Festival kicks off on Thursday at Millennium Park and the Chicago Cultural Center. Chicago singer-songwriter Sarah Marie Young, whose music blends traditional jazz with modern ...

You can trace Kevin King’s musical journey on a mural in Chatham. Painted on a building at 119 E. 79th St. this year, the image depicts a large-scale saxophone case stickered with ephemera and carried ...

Ryan Cohan, a renowned Chicago-based jazz pianist and composer, will have the inaugural performance of his new piece titled “Prism” on September 26 at Studio5 in Evanston. Cohan’s work consists of ...

Editor’s note: The article is updated with additional information about jazz radio station WDCB. Ever since musicians like Louis Armstrong, King Oliver and Jelly Roll Morton were playing at nightclubs ...

Over Labor Day weekend, the Bean hosted a surprise daily ritual. In the late afternoon, tourists gazing at the sculpture would be pulled away from their selfies by the raucous sound of a second-line ...

This year, I’d planned to cut town during the Hyde Park Jazz Festival—I thought I’d finally follow in the footsteps of notorious photographer Jim Marshall and shoot the Monterey Jazz Festival in ...

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