Hyde Park Jazz Festival Sept 24-25

The annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival returns.

When:  September 24-25, 2016, Saturday 1 pm – Midnight and Sunday 1 pm – 7pm
Where: 5900 S. S Woodlawn Ave & Midway Plaisance
Admission:  suggested $5 donation.

The Hyde Park Jazz Festival attracts about 12,000–15,000 attendees annually. Two stages located on the Midway and other venues are throughout Hyde Park including Hyde Park Union Church, DuSable Museum, the Smart Museum,Little Black Pearl, International House, Logan Center and more. Info on free transportation between venues is below.

SCHEDULE 2016
Check out the full 2016 lineup below or download it here:  Hyde Park Jazz Festival Schedule.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

Matt Ulery’s Loom
1:00-2:00pm
Smart Museum of Art

Willie Pickens Quartet
1:30-2:30pm
Wagner Stage

Inside the Score – Dana Hall Talk: “Creating the Hypocrisy of Justice Project”
1:30-2:30pm
Logan Screening Room

Bobby Lewis Quintet
2:00-3:00pm
Hyde Park Union Church

Sammy Miller & the Congregation
2:30-3:30pm
West Stage

Thaddeus Tukes / Isaiah Collier Duo
2:30-3:30pm
Smart Museum of Art

Maggie Brown Group
2:30-3:30pm
DuSable Museum of African American History

Wayfaring: Katie Ernst and James Falzone
2:30-3:30pm
Oriental Institute: Breasted Hall

Quentin Coaxum Quintet
3:00-4:00pm
Little Black Pearl

Garden of Souls: Geof Bradfield, Nick Mazzarella, Joshua Abrams, Mike Reed
3:30-4:30pm
Wagner Stage

“Chicago’s Record Man: A Conversation with Bob Koester” Video
3:30-4:30pm
Logan Screening Room

Matana Roberts (solo)
4:00-5:00pm
Logan Penthouse

Yvonne Faddis-Stroud & Friends
4:00-5:00pm
Hyde Park Bank

Lorin Cohen Group
4:00-5:00pm
Hyde Park Union Church

The Orbert Davis Sextet’s “Tribute to Freddie Hubbard”
4:15-5:15pm
DuSable Museum of African American History

Marvin Tate’s Weight of Rage
4:30-5:30pm
Little Black Pearl

Greg Ward & 10 Tongues Touch My Beloved’s Thought
4:45-5:45pm
West Stage

Amir ElSaffar Two Rivers Ensemble
5:15-6:15pm
Logan Performance Hall

Roy McGrath / Bill Cessna Duo
5:30-6:30pm
Hyde Park Bank

Matana Roberts (solo)
6:00-7:00pm
Logan Penthouse

Dee Alexander Quartet with very special guest Dwight Trible
6:00-7:00pm
Wagner Stage

Miguel Zenón and the Spektral Quartet “Yo Soy La Tradición”
7:15-8:15pm
Logan Performance Hall

Angel d’Cuba
7:15-8:15pm
West Stage

BaSH: Clark Sommers, Geof Bradfield, Dana Hall
7:15-8:15pm
International House

TRIP: Tom Harrell, Ugonna Okegwo, Mark Turner, Adam Cruz
8:30-9:30pm
Wagner Stage

Supreme Love
9:30-10:30pm
Logan Performance Hall

DJ Sadie Woods
9:30-10:30pm
West Stage

Joshua Abrams, Ari Brown, Gerald Cleaver, Jeff Parker Quartet
9:30-10:30pm
International House

Randy Weston (solo)
11:00-midnight
Rockefeller Chapel

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
Marquis Hill Blacktet
2:00-3:00pm
Wagner Stage

Douglas R. Ewart and Orbit: “A Constellation of Ewart Sonic Tops and Crepuscular Instruments”
3:00-4:00pm
West Stage

Denise Thimes Quartet
4:00-5:00pm
Wagner Stage

Chicago Jazz Orchestra
5:00-6:00pm
West Stage

Victor Goines Quartet
6:00-7:00pm
Wagner Stage

Venue locations:

Wagner Stage at the Midway
Midway Plaisance South of Woodlawn

West Stage at the Midway
Midway Plaisance South of Ellis

Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 East 60th St.

Hyde Park Bank
1525 E. 53rd St.

Hyde Park Union Church
5600 S. Woodlawn

International House
1414 East 59th

Oriental Institute: Breasted Hall
1155 East 58th St.

Smart Museum of Art
5550 South Greenwood

Rockefeller Chapel
5850 S. Woodlawn

Little Black Pearl
1060 East 47th St.

DuSable Museum of African American History
940 E. 56th Place
Transportation between venues:

A FREE Bus Service between venues is avaialble. A map of the 2016 Festival bus route will be available here online in September before the Festival as well as at the Midway during the Festival.

The Midway Plaisance is the transportation hub for the Festival. There will be late night buses leaving Rockefeller Chapel at 12:00 midnight (don’t worry, the bus will wait until 10 minutes past the performance in case it runs a little past midnight). Free buses service all other venues during performance hours between 1:00 PM–10:45PM on Saturday. Route information will be posted on buses and available at venues. Many of the venues are within walking distance of each other.

Hyde Park Art Center installations

The Hyde Park Art Center will present three visual art installations during the Festival. Three main projects have been selected: Juan Angel Chavez’s, “Gramaphone”; Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford and Faheem Majeed’s “Floating Museum”; and Sabina Ott’s “Mountain Variation.” These projects will be grouped together halfway down the Midway.

Each of the artists will create work that responds to ideas and concepts present in jazz and the South Side.

• Juan Angel Chavez’s installation, entitled “Gramophone” will be a tent like structure using wood and fabric in the shape of a gramophone at the north entrance of the Festival.
• “The Floating Museum,” a collaborative work by artists Faheem Majeed and Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford and architect Andrew Schachman, will ask Hyde Park Jazz Festival visitors to help them construct an exhibition space, using lumber, connectors and other materials, that will change over the course of the Festival.
• Sabina Ott will build “Mountain Variation,” a sculptural group of natural forms carved from polystyrene. Visitors can lounge directly on the sculpture while listening to the music of the Festival.

Dining

There will be food vendors throughout the festival but there are also several great restaurants in Hyde Park including:

Medici on 57th, 1327 E. 57th St., (773) 667-7394
Morry’s Deli, 5500 S. Cornell,
Piccolo Mondo, 1642 E. 56th St. (773) 643-1106
Valois, 1518 E 53rd St, (773) 667-0647