Live blues is about to return to Hyde Park. With the date drawing near for the re-opening of the Checkerboard Lounge, a classic Chicago blues establishment, members of the University and Hyde Park ...

The New Year may be young, but it’s off to a remarkably quick start, at least so far as jazz is concerned. Among this weekend’s highlights: The leonine tenor saxophonist Ari Brown released one of last ...

Blues fans are welcoming back an old friend. The legendary Checkerboard Lounge is reopening its doors in a new neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. The Checkerboard Lounge on 43rd Street in ...

Every year on March 23, L.C. Thurman, owner of the Checkerboard Lounge, throws himself a birthday party at the storied Bronzeville blues club. And at most of these events in recent memory he’s ...

Jazz and blues enthusiasts who have eagerly followed the fate of the Checkerboard Lounge can finally put away their recordings and look forward to live jam sessions in Hyde Park. The Checkerboard ...

The thrill is coming back for the storied Checkerboard Lounge. The shuttered Bronzeville hot spot, where Blues legends like Buddy Guy and Muddy Waters once performed, is reopening in Hyde Park in ...

In the authentic tradition of Muddy Waters, Ethan Thomas leads the raw and earthy Checkerboard Lounge in an irresistible feast of rhythm and blues with Martin Mcdonald on guitar, Rod Mackay on bass ...