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Tony, we now know from investigators that there were ne skid marks from that school buss before it struck the mta bus here on frederick avenue in southwest baltimore. Timo lets fill you in on some of the dead and the injuries. We that there were a total 616 people involved. Section are dead, 0 injured, five People Killed on the commuter bus, including the driver. One killed on the l school bus, that is a 67 year old driver. We know that the aid who was on the school bus survived. Bus. There are ...

The violin-slinging singer-songwriter walks WBEZ through the creation of four standouts on Sunday Morning Put-On, his new album of jazz standards.

Once praised as one of the world’s greatest jazz musicians, sax giant E. Parker McDougal has been all but forgotten 30 years after his death.

LaRob K. Rafael will narrate The Rose of Sonora at the Evanston Symphony Orchestra concert on April 7. Photo credit:  Aidan Kranz Every week brings

“Songs go through their own evolution, like people,” the pianist says.

Through his work as Pitchfork Music Festival’s co-founder, owner of Constellation and the Hungry Brain, and an esteemed free jazz bandleader, Reed has helped shape Chicago’s music scene.

Electronic music producer and DJ Jennifer Lee — aka TOKiMONSTA — underwent two brain surgeries in 2016 that temporarily stripped her of her ability to understand words or music.

“It’s a wide variety of different genres, from New Age to Afro-Cuban, Latin jazz and a little bit of avant-garde,” said John Foster, the Jazz Institute’s managing director of programs and education initiatives, about this weekend’s Chicago Jazz Festival.

Even while absorbing his dad’s unique sound, tenor saxophonist found his own powerful voice early on.

Two staggeringly prolific titans of the genre—saxophonist Chico Freeman and bassist Ron Carter—play back-to-back Chicago Jazz Festival sets at Pritzker Pavilion.