HYDE PARK — The Hyde Park Jazz Festival is gearing up for its 10th anniversary and is booking bands and getting ready for its big gala.
The Hyde Park Jazz Festival will mark its 10th year during the Sept. 24-25 weekend fest at venues throughout Hyde Park, and bands are already being booked.
The full lineup won’t be released until July, but so far the fest has booked the Joshua Abrams, Jeff Parker, Ari Brown and Gerald Cleaver Quartet, the Dee Alexander Quartet with Dwight Trible and others, with the Victor Goines Quartet closing out the fest on Sept. 25.
Randy Weston will celebrate his 90th birthday at this year’s festival with a performance Sept. 25 night at Rockefeller Chapel on the University of Chicago’s campus.
The Logan Center for the Arts has also commissioned a new piece from saxophonist Miguel Zenon, who will debut the 1-hour composition with the Spektral Quartet during the fest.
The festival is also bringing in visual artists for the first time through a partnership with the Hyde Park Art Center. Artists Juan Angel Chavez, Sabina Ott, and Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford and Faheem Majeed will all unveil new works on the Midway Plaisance.
The festival is gearing up for the big anniversary with a gala on June 23 at the Logan Center. This year, the gala will honor Judith Stein, who helped launch the festival, with performances by the Ken Peplowski Quintet.
Tickets for the gala start at $150 and are available on the festival’s website.
The full line-up for the September festival will be released in July, but the current roster includes:
• Randy Weston (solo)
• Matana Roberts (solo)
• Miguel Zenon and the Spektral Quartet
• Amir ElSaffar Two Rivers Ensemble
• Tom Harrell TRIP
• Joshua Abrams, Jeff Parker, Ari Brown, Gerald Cleaver Quartet
• Dee Alexander Quartet with Dwight Trible
• Greg Ward and 10 Tongues: Touch My Beloved's Thought
• Wayfaring: Katie Ernst and James Falzone
• Bobby Lewis 80th Birthday Quintet
• M.A.D.D Rhythms with Jumaane Taylor & Rajiv Halim Quartet
• Victor Goines Quartet
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