Sep 22, 2026 12:26 PM
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 Academy Award-nominated film score by Alex North for Elia Kazan's A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) is credited with opening up jazz scoring to a new generation of composers, including Elmer Bernstein, Duke Ellington, Quincy Jones, Lalo Schifrin and Henry Mancini.
Collaborations between New Wave filmmakers and Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, and more recent efforts like those between Spike Lee and Terence Blanchard, Clint Eastwood and Lennie Niehaus, and David Cronenberg with composers Ornette Coleman and Howard Shore, are featured in the film retrospective.
The gallery exhibition will present original film posters, album covers, moving-image clips and movie trailers, animation art and other printed materials relating to jazz and cinema.
The concert series will feature contemporary musicians performing some of the original jazz soundtracks featured in the film program.
More info: moma.org
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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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