Looking for the absolute best of Chicago?
Hoping to have a great time in a world-class city?
Welcome to ClickAround® Chicago.
We’re your guide to having a great time in a great city. With just a simple click, you’ll visit a 24/7 world of entertainment options that will delight tourists, the business travelers, and families. We’re more than just a web site. We show what the city is all about. We help you experience the festivals and events, the music and the nightlife the plain down-home-family fun that is our “Sweet Home Chicago”.
ClickAround® Chicago – The Fastest Way to get to the Best of Chicago!
Cultural
Music/Nightlife
Family Fun
Hospitality
Restaurants
Around Chicago
Shopping
Parking
Festivals / Events
Events Calendar
50 years of Bossa Nova featuring Paulinho Garcias Orquestra Brazzilli
Thursday, 6:30 pm Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Celebrate the music of Brazil and 50 years of the Bossa Nova. This marriage of subtle Brazilian rhythms and American bebop jazz inspired the famous song A Girl from Ipanema by StanGetz and Joao Gillberto. By blending jazz sensibilities with his native roots, Brazilian born Chicago guitarist and singer Paulinho Garcia takes us on a journey to discover how the Bossa Nova came to be. Accompanied by the warm, pristine vocals of Grazyna Auguscik and a star studded cast of Chicago musicians including Greg Fishman (saxophone), Jim Gailloreto and The Hawk String Quartet, this innovative ensemble is joined by special guests, Julien Labro (accordion) and bossa nova master musician João Donato (piano).
July 29 @ 8:44pm John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd
The city of Chicago might well be considered a co-star of Belushi & Aykroyd as the SNL veterans bring their characters to the big screen. Jake & Elwood work to put the band back together to save the Catholic home in which they were raised. Great Blues performers featured in the film include: James Brown, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin.
Thursday, 6:30 pm Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Inspired by Dizzy Gillespies United Nations Orchestra, the 15 piece Chicago Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble continues its multi-national quest of incorporating Afro Cuban jazz, Brazilian jazz, flamenco, Central American and Peruvian folkloric rhythms into their compositions while staying true to Latin jazz traditions.
Founded by Mexican born trumpeter/composer Victor Garcia and Nicaraguan born pianist/composer Darwin Alejandro Noguera, this concert features Chicagos finest Latin jazz performers, with guests Steve Turre (trombone, shells); Paoli Mejias (percussion); Howard Levy
August 5 @ 8:35 pm Patricia Neal, Michael Rennie Directed by Academy Award winning director Robert Wise, this science fiction classic tells the story of a flying saucer landing in Washington D.C. The emerging alien being is immediately shot and wounded, but lives to warn the earth against violence, urging officials to end all wars or suffer the consequences.
Along the Lakefront from the north end of Lake Shore Drive to the South end of Lake Shore Drive.
The water show begins at 9:00am and the air show begins from 11:00am until 4:00pm
Thursday, 6:30 pm Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Chicagoan Nat King Cole came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist, and then switched to singing, becoming one of the most popular and best known vocalists of all time. Jeff Lindberg’s Chicago Jazz Orchestra with Chicago chanteuse Audrey Morris along with Nat=s brother Freddy Cole B whose suave, elegant, and articulate vocals are among the most respected in jazz B pay tribute to the dancing fingers and velvet voice that wooed millions of listeners all over the world.
Monday, 6:30 pm Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Drummer Mike Reeds People, Places and Things Quartet expands to feature three legendary Chicago Jazz Figures from the 50's and 60's: Art Hoyle, trumpet, Ira Sullivan, multi instrumentalist, and Julian Priester, trombone, performing new music as well as re inventions of the music they performed decades ago. Rounding out the octet will be Chicago musicians Greg Ward, saxophone; Tim Haldeman, saxophone; Jason Roebke, bass; and Jeb Bishop, trombone.
Pritzker Pavilion 6:30 pm
What better way to begin the celebration of 30 years of jazz than with two-time GRAMMY® Award winner and 2004 GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, Sonny Rollins.
Friday, August 29, 2008
5:00-5:50 - T.S. Galloway's Tribute to Capt. Walter Dyett featuring Julian Priester, Mwata Bowden, and Edwin Daugherty
6:00-6:55 - AACM Tribute featuring Roscoe Mitchell, Wadada Leo Smith, Amina Claudine Myers, Michael Logan and Thurman Barker
7:10-8:10 - Dee Dee Bridgewater Tribute to Betty Carter with Mulgrew Miller, Ira Coleman and Kenny Washington
8:30-9:30 - Eddie Palmieri Latin Jazz Band
