The decision to place another festival right on top of Jazzfest highlighted how much has been flipped upside-down in jazz over the past 20 years. By Giovanni Russonello Back in 2005 — when the first ...

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This year's Winter Jazzfest revealed a music looking both forwards and backwards at once, attempting to assert its own identity and direction while still responding explicitly to the history of the ...

Chicago opera is, inexplicably, hibernating this winter — the city hosts no staged productions until mid-March, with Lyric Opera’s “La bohème.” Thankfully, other groups aren’t following suit. In fact, ...