Hyde Park Jazz Festival

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Kissing Spot #10: Hyde Park Jazz Festival, This makes the second year that the Hyde Park Alliance for Arts & Culture (HyPa) will be celebrating through music. While the smaller events happening from February to August mainly have small, cozy crowds, the big jazz event on Sept. 25 will have 13 music venues and over 150 artists. You’ll have room to dance, enjoy the performances from outside locations, sit in inside locations and sneak a smooch or two. Click here for past events.

The tempo of jazz on the South Side has been quickening. Attractions such as the fourth annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival (Sept. 25), the Sunday-night jazz sets at Room 43 (1043 E. 43d St.) and the Friday-afternoon Jazz in the Courtyard series at the Hyde Park Shopping Center (55th Street and Lake Park Avenue) point to heightened activity in the ancestral home of the music.

All That (Hyde Park) Jazz. A lot of sweet sounds will be emanating from the South Side this weekend when the 3rd annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival kicks off.

Hyde Park Jazz Festival—spotlighting the south-side jazz scene with free jazz performances at 13 venues all day Saturday.

In Chicago, it’s not so much that the performers let their hair down as that they never put it up. They come to play, not to pose. … The making of music is the main thing. Those onstage do intend to say something. In Chicago, festivals breed festivals—Hyde Park where the Obama’s live puts on its own extravaganza Sept. 26, featuring 40 jazz performances in 13 venues over 15 hours—again, all free, all styles.

Hyde Park Jazz Festival stands as one of the more exciting recent developments in Chicago Music: Listeners can stroll from one alluring venue to another, including such unconventional settings as Rockefeller Chapel, Robie house and the Oriental institute Museum.