Thank you to everyone who came out for the 2024 Hyde Park Jazz Festival! We loved seeing all of you and sharing so much music and community!

Save the Dates: September 27-28, 2025!

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Sep 25, 2024

Hyde Park Jazz Festival is back, packed with primo music — but facing its biggest challenges ever

Sep 25, 2024

Chicago Tribune

By Hannah Edgar

Photo By Chris Sweda

Every great music festival has a few of those moments.

If you’re a music lover, you know them well. You desperately want to catch two — maybe even three or four — spectacular billings at the same time, on different stages. But since humans haven’t yet cracked on-the-spot mitosis, one has to make tough decisions about whom to catch, when, and for how long.

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Sep 25, 2024

Sep 18, 2024

The Hyde Park Jazz Festival returns with a compelling mix of local and out-of-town talent

Sep 18, 2024

Chicago Reader

By Savannah Hugueley

Photo By Michael Wilson

The programming for this year’s Hyde Park Jazz Festival once again defies the implicit parochialism of the festival’s name: this is a weekend of music that any major city on Earth would be proud to call its own. The two-day fest balances accessible local acts that go well with picnicking on the Midway Plaisance with representatives of Chicago’s cutting-edge improvised-music community, then tops off the bill with excellent out-of-town performers.