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Part V: The Part of Tens
Chicago
� Threadgill’s (www.threadgills.com)
� Jazz Kitchen Austin (www.austincityguide.com/content/
jazz-austin-bar.asp)
� Reed’s Jazz and Supper Club (www.sgrg.com/reeds)
� The Elephant Room (www.natespace.com/elephant)
Top jazz players from around the world often perform in Austin when they’re
on the road, usually at a couple of the city’s larger venues. One World Theatre
promotes jazz education and presents concerts at its headquarters in west
Austin — a romantic compound that resembles an Italian villa. Featured artists
have included Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, and McCoy Tyner. The Paramount
Theatre, once a great movie house, is an architectural grande dame where jazz
is perfectly suited to the 1930s-era Art Deco design.
For those of you who like your jazz New Orleans style, the Austin Traditional
Jazz Society (www.atjs.org) presents live music. And if you like it modern
or far-out, the University of Texas at Austin’s music department is home to
small and large jazz groups as well as the Alternative Improvisation Music
Ensemble (AIME). Visit the University of Texas at Austin on the Web at www.
music.utexas.edu.
Trace the history of jazz and it makes an essential stop in Chicago during the
’20s and ’30s when Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke were two kings of
cornet here and when the white Austin High School jazz gang mingled with
the black South Side crew to swap licks. (See Chapter 5 for more about early
jazz in Chicago.) Today, Chicago is still a fine place for jazz. Rising jazz vocalist
Kurt Elling lives there, and the city has a solid stock of local players.
The Jazz Institute of Chicago (www.jazzinstituteofchicago.org) is an
essential hub that offers education through youth jam sessions and artists in
residency at local schools, archives of local jazz history, and live music including
a tour of jazz clubs and the annual Winter Delights Jazz Fair. Another worthy
annual gathering is the Elmhurst College Jazz Festival, with top college bands
and established stars. Visit www.ecjazzfest.org for more info.
The Chicago Jazz Orchestra (www.chicagojazzorchestra.com) offers an
annual subscription series that might include a tribute to Ella Fitzgerald or
another great. And look out for local trumpet legend Orbert Davis and his 55piece
Chicago Jazz Philharmonic (www.chicagojazzphilharmonic.org),
which merges classical music with jazz.