In the Heat of the Night
When a Chicago businessman promising to bring jobs to a dying rural town is murdered, the local...
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Event Reviews
Amir ElSaffar
Amir ElSaffar grew up in Chicago playing classical trumpet. He shifted over to jazz, became a...
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Andrew Drury
About fifteen years ago, drummer Andrew Drury was scheduled to play a duet with the Canadian...
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Douglas Trevor 2017
U-M English professor Douglas Trevor could have a comfortable life as an academic specializing in...
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David Bromberg
David Bromberg attended Columbia University in the 1960s, traveling out to Queens to study guitar...
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Sixteen Hands
In 1976, four aspiring musicians named their newly formed string quartet after Ralph Waldo...
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The Unfinished Conversation
Terry Adkins’ Flumen Orationis (from the Principalities) is a forty-one-minute video that...
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Dave Rempis & His Ballister Trio
For the last half century Chicago has become home to some of the most interesting experimental...
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Rasa Festival 2017
PanchaChitra opens with the noise of a storm, and sound remains central throughout this dance...
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Trace Bundy
The solo acoustic guitarists who perennially take the stage at the Ark–the dry Londoner...
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Tumbao Bravo
It took Tumbao Bravo just two days to record its most recent CD. Since most bands take much longer...
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Vievee Francis
Fifteen years ago, a dynamic group of young poets in Detroit gathered around Vievee Francis. As...
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A2 Jazz Fest
Jazz and world music bandleader Dave Sharp works overtime coordinating the Old Town Wednesday jazz...
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Barroom Roots
Vocalist Jennifer Westwood and her band the Handsome Devils may be the bar band of the moment...
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Cosmogonic Tattoos
You may have noticed the colorful window installations at the U-M Museum of Art and the U-M Kelsey...
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George Bedard 2017
When Chuck Berry died in March at age ninety, George Bedard knew right away that he would build...
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Sonny Landreth
Louisiana guitarist, singer, and songwriter Sonny Landreth is very much a creature of the Gulf...
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Becky Warren
It’s striking how rarely, over fifteen years of war, the Iraq conflict and the experiences...
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Molly Patterson
Lately I’ve been interested in big novels that incorporate several plots. In the most...
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