![]() ![]() ![]() (Full disclosure: I volunteer on the committee that programs the fest.) Sound bleed between the two afternoon side stages was still occasionally an issue, but in general the technical aspects had definitely improved. The festival relocated from Grant Park to Millennium Park in 2013, and last year it settled nicely into its new home. ![]() The Pritzker Pavilion performances by pianists Fred Hersch (Friday) and Henry Butler (Thursday) are presented in partnership with ADA 25 Chicago Hersch has been fighting HIV since the mid-80s, and Butler is blind, but in neither case has the artist’s exquisite talent been diminished. This year’s Jazz Festival also recognizes a milestone of a less explicitly musical sort: the 25th anniversary of the passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act. The Experimental Band set-Sunday’s marquee event and the capstone of the festival-features most of the AACM’s greatest living figures, including Henry Threadgill, Roscoe Mitchell, George Lewis, Wadada Leo Smith, and Amina Claudine Myers. The 37th annual Chicago Jazz Festival marks this auspicious anniverary with performances by four AACM-related groups: Douglas Ewart & Inventions, the Jeff Parker Trio, Steve & Iqua Colson, and Muhal Richard Abrams’s Experimental Band. Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians turned 50 in 2015, and celebrations of this influential collective have been popping off worldwide all year-here in town, exhibits honoring the AACM’s impact have opened at the DuSable Museum of African American History and the Museum of Contemporary Art. ![]()
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