Art or jazz? No need to choose...
Saturday’s Hyde Park Jazz Festival was a whirlwind, day-and-night extravaganza celebrating jazz, art, and culture in Hyde Park. The festival culminated in a concert at the Hyde Park Art Center featuring Jimmy Ellis, Maggie Brown, Willie Pickens, and Corey Wilkes. Howard Reich called it “the fastest 14 hours in jazz — as well as the most inspiring”, and we couldn’t agree more!
Maggie Brown performs to a packed house at HPAC.
From Orbert Davis’s opening concert at the DuSable Museum, through all-star lineups at the Midway, Quadrangle Club, Robie House, Smart Museum, Oriental Institute, and HPAC, and ending at the Checkerboard Lounge, the Hyde Park Jazz Festival drew over 5,000 people from all over Chicagoland to see what Hyde Park has to offer.
Jimmy Ellis in Gallery 1
Thanks to everyone who made it possible, including the hardworking Festival staff from the Hyde Park Cultural Alliance, Hyde Park Jazz Society, University of Chicago, and the countless volunteers.
Standing room only on the Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery!
People dancing and taking it all in from the catwalk and the plaza - remind anyone else of Creative Move?
So, were you there for some of it, or all of it? Did you ride a trolley, or did you get to hear one of your favorite performers in one of your favorite venues? What did you think of the event as a whole? Let us know!