Review: At 20, Hyde Park Jazz Festival is as essential as ever
Joshua Redman plays a solo performance at Rockefeller Chapel during the Hyde Park Jazz Festival on Sept. 26, 2026, in Chicago. (Vincent D. Johnson/for the Chicago Tribune)
The Hyde Park Jazz Festival maintains twenty-twenty vision in its 20th year
Quincy Phillips, drummer with Brandon Woody’s Upendo, who played the Wagner Stage on Saturday
Credit: Michael Jackson for Chicago Reader
At 20, Hyde Park Jazz Fest Retains a Neighborhood Feel
Tomeka Reid’s In Tribute To Ellington could easily have made everyone happy by simply playing Duke’s music, but she took a more challenging route.
(Photo: Marc Monaghan)
Jazz Fest hits all the right notes
The Ari Brown Quintet performs on the Midway during the 20th annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Sept. 27, 2026.
Spencer Bibbs
Hyde Park Jazz Fest on Chicago’s South Side to Present 20th Edition
A solo concert by saxophonist Joshua Redman will close the first night of the Hyde Park Jazz Festival on Sept. 26.
(Photo: Courtesy of Joshua Redman)