Are you ready for more jazz?

The Hyde Park Jazz Festival launches another new jazz initiative this year - Passport To Jazz, a series of monthly jazz events between now and the 2010 Hyde Park Jazz Festival on September 25, 2010. The Passport To Jazz Program is made possible by The Boeing Company Charitable Trust and the University of Chicago.

Record Crowds Jazzed by 2009 Hyde Park Jazz Festival

Over 20,000 jazz fans of all ages jammed 13 music venues to listen to over 150 of Chicago's great jazz artists perform for 15 non-stop hours. The 3rd annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival celebrated music and the community, proving once again that Chicago's south side is the home to the city's great tradition of jazz. View the 2009 official Jazz Festival slide show on flickr.

Rave reviews for the 2009 Jazz Festival

The remarkable Hyde Park Jazz Festival took the next step in its swift evolution; transforming itself from a first-rate arts event into something of an institution ... (Hyde Park) is a community celebrating its own artistic riches and doing so with obvious skill and finesse." Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune; 9/28/09 (complete review)

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Come back and visit

Think of the Jazz Festival as just the beginning of a year filled with jazz and arts and culture in Hyde Park. The venues you visited, and so many more, in Hyde Park are much more than just jazz - as great as that is. Visit HyPa (Hyde Park Alliance for Arts & Culture) to learn more about where to go in Hyde Park for some of the greatest visual arts, music, theater, dance, history, architecture in the country.