The Hyde Park Jazz Festival announces the 2024 HPJF lineup. The 18th Annual Festival will once again be held in architecturally unique venues across the Hyde Park, Kenwood, and Washington Park neighborhoods.
The Festival lineup features 36+ FREE performances on September 28th-29th, 2024. The program includes visiting national artists alongside some of Chicago’s brightest lights. Venues include: Smart Museum, International House, Rockefeller Chapel, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Hyde Park Bank, Hyde Park Union Church, The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center, Augustana Church, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, Hyde Park Art Center, and the Midway Plaisance.
Special guest and visiting musician projects include: Harpist Brandee Younger and pianist and MacArthur Fellow Courtney Bryan will present a very special collaboration; drummer Willie Jones III’s Quintet featuring Jeremy Pelt will present “Our Man Higgins,” in tribute to the prolific, versatile drummer, Billy Higgins; flutist/saxophonist Anna Webber and clarinetist Ben Goldberg will travel to Chicago to join Geof Bradfield’s (reeds/mbira) new project Colossal Abundance; Anna Webber will also perform a duo set with pianist Matt Mitchell; guitarist Jeff Parker and drummer Jeremy Clemmons will join Chicago pianist Justin Dillard for a new trio, The Wherewithal; the Boston-based Makanda Project will collaborate with Chicago vocalist Dee Alexander; drummer, composer, & producer from Chesapeake, Virginia Nate Smith will bring his visceral, instinctive, and deep-rooted style of drumming for a very special solo performance; pianist Craig Taborn brings his trio with cellist Tomeka Reid and drummer Ches Smith; and guitarist Bobby Broom will present his Trio with long-standing colleague, visiting drummer Kobie Watkins.
The annual Rockefeller Chapel performance at 11pm-Midnight to close Saturday’s activities will feature a very special solo performance by critically acclaimed trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire. Akinmusire recorded a solo album in 2023 titled, Beauty is Enough at Saint-Eustache Cathedral in Paris. The Rockefeller Chapel will be an exquisite setting for this not-to-be missed performance.
The Hyde Park Jazz Festival will celebrate the 100th Anniversary of James Baldwin’s birthday (born Aug. 2, 1924) with a performance in collaboration with the Hyde Park Art Center and Chicago Poet Laureate avery r. young and de deacon board ensemble. The performance will be set amidst artist Robert Earl Paige’s exhibition, “The United Colors of Robert Earl Paige.”
The Hyde Park Jazz Festival is FREE attendees are asked to consider a $10 per person donation to support Jazz on the South Side! Performances on Saturday, September 28th run from 1pm-12 midnight in multiple venues. Performances on Sunday, September 29th run from 2pm-7pm on the Midway Plaisance.
For additional information on the performing artists and the Hyde Park Jazz Festival, please visit hydeparkjazzfestival.org. Full schedule is below. Additional programs will be announced.
2024 Hyde Park Jazz Festival Schedule
Saturday, September 28, 2024
Logan Center Performance Hall (915 E. 60th St.)
5:15pm-6:15pm Taborn/Reid/Smith
7:15pm-8:15pm Immanuel Wilkins’ Blues Blood
9:30pm-10:30pm The Makanda Project featuring Dee Alexander
Logan Center Performance Penthouse (915 E. 60th St.)
2:00pm-3:00pm Jason Roebke Quartet
4:15pm-5:15pm Matt Mitchell & Anna Webber
6:15pm-7:15pm Nick Mazzarella Quartet
Logan Center Screening Room (915 E. 60th St.)
2:00pm-3:00pm Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra (Film)
Wagner Stage (Midway Plaisance/S. Woodlawn Ave.)
1:30pm-2:30pm Christian Dillingham Quartet
3:30pm-4:30pm Brandee Younger & Courtney Bryan
5:45pm-7:00pm Derrick Gardner & The Jazz Prophets
8:00pm-9:15pm Willie Jones III Quintet: “Our Man Higgins”
West Stage (Midway Plaisance/S. Ellis Ave.)
2:30pm-3:30pm Khari B’s Osun’s Waters featuring D.J. Duane Powell
4:30pm-5:45pm The Afro-Caribbean Jazz Collective
7:00pm-8:00pm Nate Smith (solo)
9:15pm-10:30pm DJ Rae Chardonnay
Hyde Park Union Church (5600 S. Woodlawn Ave.)
2:00pm-3:00pm Geof Bradfield & Colossal Abundance
4:00pm-5:00pm Bobby Lewis Quintet
Augustana Lutheran Church (5500 S. Woodlawn Ave.)
3:00pm-4:00pm Jon Irabagon Trio
5:00pm-6:00pm Twin Talk
ISAC / Breasted Hall (1155 E. 58th St.)
1:30pm-2:30pm Marlene Rosenberg Trio
3:30pm-4:30pm Kevin King Regime featuring Shravan Raghuram
Hyde Park Bank (1525 E. 53rd St.)
4:00pm-5:00pm Zubin Edaiji’s Four Windows
5:30pm-6:30pm Juli Wood’s Chicago Calling
DuSable Black History Museum & Education Center (740 E. 56 Pl.)
2:00pm-3:00pm The Wherewithal (Dillard/Clemons/Parker)
4:00pm-5:00pm Bobby Broom Trio
Hyde Park Art Center (5020 S. Cornell Ave.)
2:00pm-3:00pm avery r. young & de deacon board
Rockefeller Chapel (5850 S. Woodlawn Ave.)
11:00pm-12Mid Ambrose Akinmusire (solo)
Smart Museum (5550 S. Greenwood Ave.)
1:00pm-2:00pm 2 Brown Sisters: Maggie & Africa Brown “Now is the Hour”
2:45pm-3:45pm Mai Sugimoto Trio
International House (1414 E. 59th St.)
7:00pm-8:00pm Pharez Whitted Quintet
9:30pm-10:30pm Natural Information Society Community Ensemble w/Ari Brown
Sunday, September 29, 2024
Wagner Stage (Midway Plaisance/S. Woodlawn Ave.)
2:00pm-3:00pm Alexis Lombre
4:00pm-5:00pm Charles Heath Quartet
6:00pm-7:00pm The Chicago Windy City Ramblers
West Stage (Midway Plaisance/S. Ellis Ave.)
3:00pm-4:00pm Tatsu Aoki’s Miyumi Project
5:00pm-6:00pm Victor Garcia Sextet
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