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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.