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Your Guide to the Hyde Park Jazz Festival
Free two-day jazz festival on Chicago's Culture Coast.

The Hyde Park Jazz Festival on Chicago’s Culture Coast will feature diverse performances from local, national and international jazz artists on September 24-25. A new project called Art On the Runway will feature three art installations and one interactive art making station on the Midway. The event is asking for a $5 donation per person and is co-produced by the Hyde Park Jazz Society.
Performances are scattered across the South Side neighborhood and will feature the following artists:
Saturday Sept. 24
- Matt Ulery's Loom (Smart Museum of Art): 1:00 p.m. -2 p.m.
- Willie Pickens Quartet (Wagner Stage): 1:30 p.m. -2:30 p.m.
- Inside the Score - Dana Hall Talk: "Creating the Hypocrisy of Justice Project" (Logan Screening Room): 1:30-2:30 p.m.
- Bobby Lewis Quintet (Hyde Park Union Church): 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
- Sammy Miller & the Congregation (West Stage): 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
- Thaddeus Tukes / Isaiah Collier Duo (Smart Museum of Art): 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
- Maggie Brown Group (DuSable Museum of African American History): 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
- Wayfaring: Katie Ernst and James Falzone (Oriental Institute: Breasted Hall): 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
- Quentin Coaxum Quintet (Little Black Pearl): 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
- Garden of Souls: Geof Bradfield, Nick Mazzarella, Joshua Abrams, Mike Reed (Wagner Stage): 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
- "Chicago's Record Man: A Conversation with Bob Koester" Video (Logan Screening Room): 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
- Matana Roberts (solo) (Logan Penthouse): 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
- Yvonne Faddis-Stroud & Friends (Hyde Park Bank): 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
- Lorin Cohen Group (Hyde Park Union Church): 4:00 p.m - 5:00 p.m.
- The Orbert Davis Sextet's "Tribute to Freddie Hubbard" (DuSable Museum of African American History): 4:15 p.m. -5:15 p.m.
- Marvin Tate's Weight of Rage (Little Black Pearl): 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
- Greg Ward & 10 Tongues Touch My Beloved's Thought (West Stage): 4:45 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
- Amir ElSaffar Two Rivers Ensemble (Logan Performance Hall): 5:15 p.m - 6:15 p.m.
- Roy McGrath / Bill Cessna Duo (Hyde Park Bank): 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
- Matana Roberts (solo) (Logan Penthouse): 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
- Dee Alexander Quartet with very special guest Dwight Trible (Wagner Stage): 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
- Miguel Zenón and the Spektral Quartet "Yo Soy La Tradición" (Logan Performance Hall): 7:15 p.m. -8:15 p.m.
- Angel d'Cuba (West Stage) 7:15 p.m. - 8:15 p.m.
- BaSH: Clark Sommers, Geof Bradfield, Dana Hall (International House): 7:15 p.m. - 8:15 p.m.
- TRIP: Tom Harrell, Ugonna Okegwo, Mark Turner, Adam Cruz (Wagner Stage): 8:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
- Supreme Love (Logan Performance Hall): 9:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
- DJ Sadie Woods (West Stage): 9:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
- Joshua Abrams, Ari Brown, Gerald Cleaver, Jeff Parker Quartet (International House): 9:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
- Randy Weston (solo) (Rockefeller Chapel): 11:00 p.m. - Midnight
Sunday Sept. 25
- Marquis Hill Blacktet (Wagner Stage): 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
- Douglas R. Ewart and Orbit: "A Constellation of Ewart Sonic Tops and Crepuscular Instruments" (West Stage): 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
- Denise Thimes Quartet (Wagner Stage): 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
- Chicago Jazz Orchestra (West Stage): 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
- Victor Goines Quartet (Wagner Stage): 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
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