Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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With his Chicago Inspirations program, drummer-composer Mike Reed seeks to both honor the past and look to the future of the city’s jazz scene. “You never know what the legacy’s going to be. You’ve got to kind of keep on doing it,” he says.

Hear more from Reed about the concert, which celebrates two distinct eras in Chicago’s jazz history and features students from the Jazz Institute of Chicago’s Jazz Links Program.

Find tickets at cso.org/ps/25413

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