Chicago Jazz Festival

[3] Each year after the concerts are over, jam sessions, sometimes running late into the night and early morning, are hosted in various nightclubs by numerous prominent Chicago jazz musicians such as David Boykin [de], the late Fred Anderson, Dana Hall, Karl E. H. Seigfried, and Keefe Jackson [de].

[6] In 2017, the festival moved from Grant Park's badly aging Petrillo Music Shell and its side stages, where it had been held for more than 30 years, across Monroe Street to Millennium Park, where artists appeared at several performance pavilions as well as at the nearby Chicago Cultural Center, Ganz Hall at Roosevelt University, and several other locations.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the jazz festival went on hiatus in 2020, and was presented in a scaled back version in 2021, but returned with a full slate in 2022.

[8][9][10] Performers have included Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Anthony Braxton, Betty Carter, Lionel Hampton, Chico O'Farrill's big band, Jimmy Dawkins, Johnny Frigo, Slide Hampton, Roy Haynes, Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae, B.

King, Count Basie, Sun Ra, Stan Getz, Jimmy Smith, Dexter Gordon, Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Burrell, Ornette Coleman, and many others.