The 2013 Chicago Jazz Festival will take place from August 29th to September 1st at a new location (the Pritzker Pavillion) and at the Cultural Center.
The first evening of the Chicago Jazz Festival, Thursday, August 29, will once again coincide with the final evening of Made in Chicago: World Class Jazz. Then on Friday, three stages will come alive with entertainment in Millennium Park (including the north and south ends of the Chase Promenade) as the festival begins that day at 2 p.m. and continues until 10 p.m. Saturday and Sunday hours will also be extended from previous years, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., and an additional stage will feature live performances, resulting in the festival providing the most hours of free jazz music than it has in recent years.
As is the tradition of the festival, the 2013 Artist in Residence is Chicago drummer/percussionist Hamed Drake.
Drake moved to the Chicago area with his parents in the early sixties, living on the same street as Fred Anderson who would mentor the pre-teen drummer. By the early seventies, Drake joined Anderson’s band, playing with him on stage at the inaugural Chicago Jazz Festival in 1979. The worldwide demand for his talents regularly takes Drake away from home. His Artist Residency affords Chicagoans the rare opportunity to hear him in several contexts over the course of one weekend, and his appearance at the Chicago Jazz Festival – 34 years after he first played this event – encompasses the festival’s entire history.
The stage that promotes the future of the genre by highlighting local high school and college jazz bands and ensembles, The Chicago Community Trust Young Jazz Lions Stage, will find its new home on the Harris Theater Rooftop on Saturday and Sunday.
Thursday, August 29 Chicago Cultural Center
Randolph Café
12:00 – 1:00 Corylus
1:30 – 2:30 Fat Babies
Claudia Cassidy Theater
12:15 – 1:15 Larry Gray Trio
1:45 – 2:45 Harrison Bankhead Sextet
Preston Bradley Hall
12:30 – 1:30 Hinda Hoffman Trio
2:00 – 3:00 TBA
Roosevelt University’s Ganz Hall
5:00 – 6:00 Hamid Drake’s Chicago Trio w/ Ernest Dawkins & Harrison Bankhead
Millennium Park – Jay Pritzker Pavilion 6:30 Made in Chicago: World Class Jazz
Jack DeJohnette: Special Legends Edition Chicago featuring, Muhal Richard Abrams, Larry Gray, Roscoe Mitchell and Henry Threadgill
Friday, August 30 Millennium Park
Von Freeman Pavilion (South Promenade)
2:20 – 3:15 Christopher McBride Quartet
3:30 – 4:25 Ben Paterson Organ Quartet
4:40 – 5:40 Miguel de la Cerna Quartet in partnership with the Hyde Park Jazz Society
Jazz and Heritage Pavilion (North Promenade)
2:00 – 3:00 Mike Smith Quartet
3:30 – 4:30 Hamid Drake w/ Michael Zerang, Eigen Aoki & Tsukasa drummers directed by Tatsu Aolki
5:00 – 6:00 “A Tribute to Ken Chaney”
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
6:30 – 7:20 Geof Bradfield’s Melba!
7:40 – 8:40 Wadada Leo Smith’s Ten Freedom Summers, performed by WLS’s Golden Quartet and Pacifica Red Coral with video artist Jesse Gilbert
9:00 – 10:00 Charles Lloyd Quartet with special guest Bill Frisell
Saturday, August 31 Millennium Park
Von Freeman Pavilion
12:00 – 12:55 The Frank Russell Band
1:10 – 2:05 Hamid Drake Quartet w/ Kidd Jordan, William Parker & Cooper Moore
2:20 – 3:15 Ernie Krivda Quartet
3:30 – 4:30 Satoko Fujii’s Orchestra Chicago
Jazz and Heritage Pavilion
12:30 – 1:30 Nick Mazzarella Trio
2:00 – 3:00 Erin McDougald Quartet
3:30 – 4:30 Chévere de Chicago
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
5:00 – 5:50 Stafford James String and Percussion Ensemble featuring M’BOOM
6:10 – 7:05 Gregory Porter
7:25 – 8:25 Rudresh Mahanthappa’s GAMAK
8:45 – 10:00 Jason Moran: Fats Waller Dance Party
Sunday, September 1 Millennium Park
Von Freeman Pavilion
12:00 – 12:55 Fast Citizens
1:10 – 2:05 Juli Wood Quintet
2:20 – 3:15 Evan Christopher
3:30 – 4:30 Atomic
Jazz and Heritage Pavilion
12:30 – 1:30 The Engines
2:00 – 3:00 Fareed Haque and Tony Monaco
3:30 – 4:30 Papo Vazquez Mighty Pirates Troubadours
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
5:00 – 5:50 JimmyHeath Quartet with Jeb Patton
6:10 – 7:05 Hamid Drake & Bindu: Reggaeology
7:25 – 8:25 Robert Glasper Trio
8:45 – 10:00 Donald Harrison and The Congo Square Nation w/ special guest Willie Pickens
