The Hyde Park Jazz Festival is excited to share our plans for the 2025 Benefit Performance and Concert. Please join us on June 26th! See the Benefit Page for Details and to Purchase Tickets.
Thank you to everyone who came out for the 2024 Hyde Park Jazz Festival! Save the Dates: September 27-28, 2025 for the 19th Annual HPJF!
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.
By Bill Meyer
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.
2023 Hyde Park Jazz FEstival
2022 Hyde Park Jazz FEstival
JAZZ KITCHEN
BACK ALLEY JAZZ
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Chicago Reader
By Michael Jackson
Photo By Michael Jackson
The Hyde Park Jazz Festival, one of the most astutely curated and organized arts events on the Chicago cultural calendar, reached its 18th year the last weekend in September. Except for one brief shower, the rain in the forecast stayed away, and though the Hyde Park Herald had just published a story on the financial headwinds faced by the festival—even suggesting that this could be its final year—neither that news nor the thick gray clouds could dampen the mood. The fest’s usual broadly diverse audience—one of the best features of this south-side jewel—showed up and remained attentive and engaged for all the music on the program, no matter where it landed on the Venn diagram of “challenging,” “educational,” and “fun.”