The Cleveland-based world/jazz ensemble Drumplay has performed locally for more than 30 years. The group fuses elements of Afro-Cuban, Brazilian and Middle Eastern music with jazz and has released ...

Bertelmann’s score bubbles under the film like something alive, using distorted piano, moaning brass, and tactile, close-mic ...

Short-lived and underappreciated Chicago eight-piece Aura created an ambitious fusion of soul, funk, acid rock, and jazz on ...

It was an absolutely brilliant evening at Chicago Symphony Hall Oct. 16 as a full audience was clearly enthralled by two ...

Unlimited Imagination article by Ian Patterson, published on October 30, 2025 at All About Jazz. Find more Big Band in the Sky articles ...

Live review by Jeff Elbel, Live photos by Curt Baran.

His “Who Is the Sky Tour” is at the Auditorium in Chicago through the weekend. On an empty stage, the entire band and the ...

Original Chicago band members Robert Lamm (keyboards and vocals), Lee Loughnane (trumpet and vocals) and James Pankow ...

Jack DeJohnette, a jazz icon who made his home in Woodstock for half a century and became one of the Hudson Valley’s most visible musical citizens, died Sunday, October 26, 2025 at Kingston Hospital.

I n the 1990s, Chicago band Tortoise sat near the center of one of the more interesting music scenes in the United States.

The influential jazz drummer who helped shape Miles Davis’ fusion era has died at 83. Tributes are pouring for his groundbreaking legacy.

Willetts — a pianist, drummer and longtime Rogers Park resident — died suddenly on Friday, Oct. 17, according to his former ...