The Great Black Music Project, an archival system using the latest technological processes to be housed at the Jacob H. Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies(JHCCICS) and a virtual house on the world wide web - accessible globally by all interested. The capabilities of the project are vast enough to be a repository of both audio and video, recordings, photos, news clips, essays, critical review and thought - from the analog past to the digital future.
Yusef Lateef Interview Transcription courtesy of Rahsaan Clark Morris
Some time late last year, I think in October of 2012, WHPK radio host Al Carter Bey recorded an interview on the air with a great reedman, artist, and spiritual individual. This is a transcription of that talk.
Friday March 1 - Lupe Fiasco: Streets on Fire - Peace for Hire Panel Discussion
GBMP: Black History Month Film Screening
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.
Ken Chaney, platinum jazz pianist and revered educator, dies in Chicago
By Neil Tesser
Ken Chaney – the Chicago pianist, bandleader, composer, and educator, who played on a million-selling soul-jazz single in 1968 – died Wednesday in Chicago. He would have turned 74 years old tomorrow, December 21.
Haunting New Year's Eve show exposed listeners to what Von Freeman was all about
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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Pete Cosey, 1943-2012
Copyright © 2012, Chicago Tribune
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.
Chicago guitar genius Pete Cosey dead at 68
R.I.P. / Music / Post No Bills Chicago guitar genius Pete Cosey dead at 68
Posted by Peter Margasak on 05.30.12 at 12:26 PM
Pete Cosey in the Reader in 1997
Pete Cosey in the Reader in 1997
GBMP Archives: Shadow Vignettes - Honky Tonk Bud
Probably the only Jazz/Rap video ever done back in 1986 by Chicago Filmmaker Scott Laster, screenplay and performance by John Toles-Bey and music by Edward Wilkerson.
Beloved jazz pianist Jodie Christian had exceptional ear for harmony
February 13, 2012|Howard Reich | Arts critic
Chicago pianist Jodie Christian accompanied the greatest artists in jazz, from Stan Getz to Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins to Benny Carter, Gene Ammons to Roscoe Mitchell.
Upcoming Events
| Date | Musicians |
|---|---|
| 05/25/2013 - 7:00pm | Celebration of Chicago Artists Award Show |
| 05/26/2013 - 8:00am | Donovan Mixon |
| 05/26/2013 - 4:00pm | Rob Mazurek and Jeff Parker with Jeff Chan's Cultural Arts Quartet |
| 05/28/2013 - 10:30am | Vince Willis at the Underground Wonderbar |
| 05/31/2013 - 11:00am | First Annual Jazz Strings Summit |
| 06/01/2013 - 2:00am | First Annual Jazz Strings Summit |
| 06/03/2013 - 7:00pm | The Jazz Institute's Jazz Links Ensemble |
| 06/04/2013 - 10:30am | Vince Willis at the Underground Wonderbar |
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