On March 1st the Lupe Fiasco Foundation presents: Streets on Fire - Peace for Hire an intimate discussion about strategies for peace. The event will take place at Jacob Carruthers Center for Inner-City Studies in Chicago and feature appearances by Lupe Fiasco and Teen performers.

The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong, UK, 1999, 65 min
Directed by John Akomfrah
You would think there couldn't be anything else to say about Louis Armstrong after Ken Burns's Jazz, which elevated the trumpeter to the status of the 20th century's most important musical figure. But this hourlong program (produced in 1999, some two years before the Burns documentary began airing) equals and often surpasses Jazz by taking a less reverential, more personal approach.

Haunting New Year's Eve show exposed listeners to what Von Freeman was all about
August 16, 2012|Howard Reich | Arts critic

The thin, elderly man onstage at the Green Mill Jazz Club sat nearly motionless. His legs, he told a few of us before the show, were failing him, and he needed to stay seated as long as possible.

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Jazz guitarist Pete Cosey used electronic distortion and innovative methods of stringing and tuning his guitar to impress his signature sound on recordings by artists from bluesmen Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf to jazz great Miles Davis.