In this week's paper I previewed an exciting concert happening Thursday night in Millennium Park: the fantastic drummer Dana Hall will be reconvening his Black Fire project, which plays the music of pianist and composer Andrew Hill, with a lineup twice as large as the one he used to debut the endeavor last year at the Hyde Park Jazz Festival. One of the new participants is the excellent Philadelphia pianist Orrin Evans, one of the most critically overlooked musicians in all of jazz.…
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