Ginger Baker Stories

Photos / Recap: Ginger Baker's Jazz Confusion @ City Winery 6/23/14

Photos / Reporting: Heidi PetersGinger Baker's early set at City Winery on Monday was only six songs, but like a true jazz band those tunes were stretched into well over an hour of musicStarting with Wayne Shorter's classic composition "Footprints" the band dived headlong into a jazz that was dominated by percussion.After exploring many rhythmic...

Contests: Jazz At The Winery, June 2014

Jazz is crashing headlong to Chicago's City Winery with two big shows that celebrate the great American genre's past and future.The great Preservation Hall Jazz Band hearkens to the sound's New Orleans roots. Chicago mainstay DJRC will bring his "Funk Of New Orleans" revue to open two nights of the legendary band's performance on...