The 36th Annual Chicago Jazz Festival

It’s this week, until Sunday, in Millennium Park!

You match the names with the faces. The first one to get ’em all correct wins… an appropriate prize of some sort.

Jason Adasiewicz, Dee Alexander, Marshall Allen, Terence Blanchard, David Boykin, Gary Burton, Ravi Coltrane, Ernest Khabeer Dawkins, Liberty Ellman, The Elmhurst College Jazz Ensemble, Kevin Eubanks, George (and Bruz, and Chico) Freeman, Mary Halvorsen, Tom Harrell, Tootie Heath, Dave Holland, Rob Mazurek, Myra Melford, Rufus Reid, Tomeka Reid, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Matt Shipp, Esperanza Spaulding, Chad Taylor, Corey Wilkes, The Chicago Yestet.

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(A dilemma: the Tootie Heath Trio is playing at the same time as the Yestet.)

P.S. All the performances listed here have no admission charge. You get “in” for nada.

http://jazzinchicago.org/jazzfest/

Update: the prize has been claimed by surfer Erin W., of Algoma, a self-proclaimed “L7” who googled everybody and who writes, “Why don’t they all just learn the melody better?”