The Great Black Music Project, an archival system using the latest technological processes to be housed at the Jacob H. Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies(JHCCICS) and a virtual house on the world wide web - accessible globally by all interested. The capabilities of the project are vast enough to be a repository of both audio and video, recordings, photos, news clips, essays, critical review and thought - from the analog past to the digital future.
21st African Festival of the Arts: Chaka Khan, Angelique Kidjo to headline
21st African Festival of the Arts
Washington Park Labor Weekend
One of Chicago’s largest festivals, “The African Festival of the Arts”, presented by Africa International House, takes place September 3-6, 2010, during Labor Day Weekend, and transforms Chicago's Washington Park, located 51st and Cottage Grove, into an authentic African village complete with spectacular entertainment, pavilions, food and more.
Tenor saxophonist Fred Anderson nurtured generations of Chicago jazz
June 24, 2010|By Howard Reich | Arts critic
It may be impossible to fully measure saxophonist Fred Anderson's impact on music in Chicago--and around the world.
As tenor saxophonist, he invented a rugged, craggy musical language that influenced generations of "free jazz" improvisers.
POSCAST Bronzeville Divas
Singers Joan Colasso and Senebella talk about their upcoming concert next Friday June 4, at Northeastern Illinois University - Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies 700 E Oakwood Blvd, Chicago, IL
Check out the New GBMP Blog
Check out our new blog and chime in with comments and opinions. Sheenita Robinson will be reporting on the local music scene and more bloggers are coming aboard every month.
Live Interview - BluesSpeak: The Best of the Original Chicago Blues Annual
This incomparable anthology collects articles, interviews, fiction, and poetry from the Original Chicago Blues Annual, one of music history's most significant periodical blues publications. Founded and operated from 1989 to 1995 by African American musician and entrepreneur Lincoln T. Beauchamp Jr., OCBA gave voice to the blues community and often frankly addressed contentious issues within the blues such as race, identity, prejudice, wealth, gender, and inequity.
Buy BluesSpeak: The Best of the Original Chicago Blues Annual at Amazon.
See a live interview with Chicago Beau on WGN or on next page.
Chicago Artist Nikki Lynette New Vid - Don't Say No
JUNE: New Great Black Music Radio Podcasts!! with DJ Big Will
The GBMP monthly radio podcast hosted by Chicago DJ Big Will continues. Every month GBMP present a programs of music by Chicago and Illinois artists. Listen to the radio podcast here. This month we feature Women and Bands of Illinois
Freedom, Rhythm and Sound Album and Book
Freedom, Rhythm and Sound ALBUM & BOOK
Revolutionary Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement 1963-82
Soul Jazz Records
This book is OUT NOW on Soul Jazz Records is available to buy HERE!
A seriously deep selection of Jazz record covers in a superb new deluxe 200-plus page book by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker. Featuring Tribe, ESP, Art Ensemble, Sun Ra, Coltrane - it's all here!
This album features the work of revolutionary jazz artists who created new radical music infused with the values of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Self-determination, economic power and musical freedoms explode as the avant-garde collided with Black Power and Afro-centricity.
Save Chicago Music - You Can Help!!!!
Music, arts and cultural programs presented by the city of Chicago are threatened by severe budget cuts. We can't let this happen-our city is known around the world for its free music programming that not only brings enjoyment to hundreds of thousands of fans and adds to the richness of our civic culture, but also generates jobs and income for local businesses.
AACM at Umbria Jazz
http://uhjazzjebell.myblog.it/archive/2009/07/18/umbria-jazz-presenta-una-“sezione-sperimentale”-con-il-colle.html
Nearly opposite to the billboard pop (Simply Red, Steely Dan), Umbria Jazz presents this year a "experimental section" which is perhaps the most ambitious of all the long history of the event.
Upcoming Events
| Date | Musicians |
|---|---|
| 09/04/2010 - 12:00pm | Nyahbingi Drum Choir |
| 09/04/2010 - 2:00pm | Maggie Brown |
| 09/04/2010 - 6:30pm | "Southport Records Jazz Fest Celebration" with Jimmy Ellis and George Freeman |
| 09/05/2010 - 1:00pm | Maggie Brown |
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