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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
John Vukmirovich

October is for appreciating jazz, and the cultures that have inspired it

The crowd at the Chicago Jazz Festival at Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park on Sept. 1. (Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times)

Cool, red October is for settling in at night with some music — jazz — with the windows ajar, a light rain falling, and the curtains stirring with a lazy motion. Ah!

By the late 1970s, I was transitioning from rock and moving on to folk and jazz. My first forays into jazz had been my parents’ dusty 78s in the basement: Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller and Artie Shaw.

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