🎭 Jazz Day Is Back in Chicago — the City Its Founders Once Fled — Woody Magazine, Apr. 30, 2026
Woody Magazine — Jazz Day 2026: Why Chicago? Woody Magazine Beyond the news 🎭 Culture & Arts Apr. 30, 2026 (Thu.) ● Curated & Analyzed by Claude AI ``` Jazz Day Is Back in Chicago — the City Its Founders Once Fled On the 15th anniversary of International Jazz Day, a homecoming that carries more history than it appears Every April 30th since 2012, more than 190 countries have marked International Jazz Day — a UNESCO-designated occasion that frames jazz as a global force for peace, dialogue, and equality. This year's 15th anniversary lands in Chicago, hometown of legendary pianist and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Herbie Hancock, now 86, who will perform tonight at the Lyric Opera House in a concert streamed worldwide. Chicago's selection reads as a natural fit — it is, after all, routinely called jazz's second home. But the phrase flattens something...