A Look-Back at the 2024 Chicago Jazz Festival

A recap of the 2024 Chicago Jazz Festival at the Chicago Cultural Center and Millennium Park. August 29-September 1, 2024.

Festival artists included at total of six stages the Claudia Cassidy Theatre, Preston Bradley Hall, Harris Theatre Rooftop Stage, Von Freeman Stage, WDCB Lounge, the Pritzker Pavilion.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 2024
Preston Bradley Hall
IRIS w/ Russ Johnson
The New Deal Gypsy Jazz Band
Miguel de la Cerna Quartet
Southside All Stars with Di'Kobie Berry & Darius Hampton
Jason Adasiewicz
Amina Claudine Myers

Claudia Cassidy Theater
The Young Masters
Jeff Chan Ensemble
The DJAZ Quartet
What is this thing called Jazz?


FRI, Aug 30, 2024 MILLENNIUM PARK
Von Freeman Stage
Maddie Vogler
Bethany Pickens Trio
Big Shoulders Brass Band
akecia Benjamin

Jay Pritzker Pavilion
The Tomeka Reid Quartet
Billy Harper Quintet
Charlie Sepúlveda
Catherine Russell

WDCB Jazz Lounge
Sanctified Grumblers
Calligram Records Showcase
The Bruce Henry Quintet
Bonzo Squad

SAT, Aug 31 MILLENNIUM PARK

Harris Theater Rooftop Young Lions Jazz
Whitney Young Jazz Combo
Midwest Young Artists Conservatory Combo
ChiArts Combo A
Lincoln Park High School Jazz Band
Youth Jazz Ensemble of DuPage
]Kenwood Academy High School Jazz Band

WDCB Lounge
Samuel Mosching Quintet
Charles Heath Quartet
Lynne Jordan & the Shivers
Soul Message Band

Von Freeman Stage
Windy City Ramblers
Leslie Beukelman & Jeremy Kahn's "Tonight: At Noon"
Mike Ross Quartet
James Brandon Lewis

Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Dennis Carroll
Jeff Parker & THE New Breed
René Marie & Experiment In Truth
Kenny Garrett and Sounds From The Ancestor

SUN, SEPT 1
MILLENNIUM PARK

Harris Theater Rooftop. Young Lions Jazz
Alfie Jackson Quartet
Brandon Harper & Friends
The Isabella Isherwood Quintet
Alejandro Salazar and the Afro Cuban Exchange
JCANDTHEREUPBAND

WDCB Lounge
Bethany Pickens Soulful Coalition
Ernest Dawkins Quintet
Alexander McLean Project
Juli Wood’s “Natalies Wood plays Roland Kirk”

Von Freeman Stage
Mai Sugimoto
Sharel Cassity Alliance
Charlie Johnson Quartet
Jason Palmer Quartet

Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Clif Wallace Big Band
Eddie Henderson
Orrin Evans
Spanish Harlem Orchestra