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Hyde Park Jazz Fest on Chicago’s South Side to Present 20th Edition
The Hyde Park Jazz Festival will take place for the 20th time on the final weekend of September 2026. Beginning half…
The series so far comprises six discs. These titles include Duke Ellington’s Spacemen – The Cosmic Scene, a 1958 small-group session of standards and some of the bandleader’s lesser-known gems. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers’ Hard Bop from 1956 features the late Jackie McLean. Other Mosaic Singles include J. J. Johnson’s J.J.! (1964), Charles Lloyd’s Of Course, Of Course (1965), Bud Freeman’s Chicago/Austin High School Jazz In Hi-Fi (1957) and a tenor saxophone-led triumverate of Al Cohn, Bill Perkins and Richie Kamuca, The Brothers! (1955).
Along with the Mosaic Singles series, the company intends to continue releasing its box sets. In June, it will release a seven-CD collection of Dizzy Gillespie’s small group sessions on Verve and Philips from the late 1950s and early 1960s.
For more information go to mosaicrecords.com.
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The Hyde Park Jazz Festival will take place for the 20th time on the final weekend of September 2026. Beginning half…
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