Jazz@Logan Center

Internationally renowned for unparalleled contributions to modern music, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Inc. (AACM) has been an inspirational leader within the cultural community since 1965. Since its inceptions, one mission of the AACM has been to provide an atmosphere conducive to the development of its member artists and to continue the AACM legacy of providing leadership and vision for the development of creative music. The AACM first coined the phrase Great Black Music to describe its unqiue direction in music. The AACM pays homage to the diverse styles of expression within the body of Black Music in the USA, Africa and throughout the world. This experience extends from the ancient music of Africa to the music of the future.

The AACM, always exciting and unconventional, has thrilled audiences with innovative and provocative musical presentations for years. With the current lineup, concert-goers will receive pleasing expressions from the Outer Realms, those barely explored regions of space and experience, distant from containing structures, the domain of untapped possibilities. The series will offer an acclaimed roster of performers, diverse in their approaches yet unified by their determination to challenge the boundaries that tend to limit creative expression and perceptual experience.

The Bridge is a dynamic network for exchange, production, and diffusion that promotes and facilitates collaboration between French and American creative musicians. It also encourages meetings, fosters growth of professional and artistic relationships between these musicians, provides a context in which they can develop and flourish. In other words, the Bridge gives creative musicians the times and spaces they need to connect and reconnect–on both sides of the Atlantic–in order to deepen their exchange.

Known for its boldness in showcasing cutting-edge works, the Department of Music’s UChicago Jazz Ensemble is a versatile collection of musicians, frequently joined in performance by noted Chicago-area professionals. The Ensemble's three-concert season offers a variety of music ranging from jazz standards to hip-hop, often in custom arrangements by the ensemble’s own members. Both in rehearsal and in performance, the Ensemble focuses on developing the improvisational skills of its musicians, as well as on deepening their understanding of the wide-ranging jazz idiom. The group has issued two CDs and frequently performs for University events on campus and elsewhere in the city.

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In partnership with the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts and the Jazz Institute of Chicago, Jazz at the Logan presents CHICAGO STAGE at the Logan showcasing local jazz artists in FREE pre-concert performances.

Recognizing the place of Hyde Park in the history of jazz in Chicago, the Hyde Park Jazz Society is committed to the encouragement, promotion, and expansion of jazz performance in the Hyde Park/mid-South Side community, as well as to the education and expansion of the jazz listening audience and the development and support of jazz musicians.

The Hyde Park Jazz Society selects highly regarded jazz musicians with a Chicago area affiliation to perform on eight 3rd Tuesdays of the month in Café Logan. Enjoy beer, wine, a full coffee bar, and food along with some of the best jazz the city has to offer.

Presented by the Logan Center and Hyde Park Jazz Society with additional support by WDCB 90.9fm, these events are free.

Presented by UChicago Presents, the Jazz at the Logan series brings the spectrum of contemporary jazz—with its myriad influences from the past to the present—to the Logan Center concert stage with performances by the most exciting artists of today.

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