The Mayor’s Office of Special Events is now accepting EPK submissions for consideration for the 2010 Chicago Jazz Festival. Selected artists will be compensated.
The Chicago Jazz Festival began in 1979 as the first of city’s free lakefront music festivals. Featuring 4 stages, the festival programming committee highlights high school and college jazz ensembles, creates reunions of long-time musical colleagues, stages tributes to jazz icons and commissioned new works fro>...
The Mayor’s Office of Special Events is now accepting EPK submissions for consideration for the 2010 Chicago Jazz Festival. Selected artists will be compensated.
The Chicago Jazz Festival began in 1979 as the first of city’s free lakefront music festivals. Featuring 4 stages, the festival programming committee highlights high school and college jazz ensembles, creates reunions of long-time musical colleagues, stages tributes to jazz icons and commissioned new works from local, national and international artists. The festival showcases a balance of musical styles. Careful consideration is given to mixing mainstream, traditional, experimental, vocal and blues-based jazz to educate audiences about the diversity of the whole. By presenting the familiar and the unfamiliar side-by-side the festival has opened many ears to understanding and appreciating the continuum of Jazz as it evolves.
2009 festival performers included Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Dave Holland, Muhal Richard Abrams, Esperanza Spalding, William Parker, Dee Alexander, Von Freeman and Fred Anderson.
Genres accepted include Jazz, Avant-Garde, Dixieland, Free, Hard Bop, Latin Jazz, Orchestra, Straight Ahead, Trad and Vocal.