This week on the show, we’ve got an hour of jazz’s colorful history in Chicago. We’ll talk with the owner of the storied Green Mill Cocktail Lounge, Dave Jemilo, about his epic restoration of the club to its former speakeasy glory, and hear how the Green Mill helped found the improv-rich tradition that is the poetry slam. And we’ll trace the arrival of jazz in Chicago and the city’s reign as America’s jazz capital during the 1920s, and tour the bizzare, outer-spaced-themed world of Sun Ra, and his days in Chicago where he helped light the fuse for one of the country’s richest avant garde jazz scenes.

This week on the show, we’ve got an hour of jazz’s colorful history in Chicago. We’ll talk with the owner of the storied Green Mill Cocktail Lounge, Dave Jemilo, about his epic restoration of the club to its former speakeasy glory, and hear how the Green Mill helped found the improv-rich tradition that is the poetry slam. And we’ll trace the arrival of jazz in Chicago and the city’s reign as America’s jazz capital during the 1920s, and tour the bizzare, outer-spaced-themed world of Sun Ra, and his days in Chicago where he helped light the fuse for one of the country’s richest avant garde jazz scenes.

This week on the show, we’ve got an hour of jazz’s colorful history in Chicago. We’ll talk with the owner of the storied Green Mill Cocktail Lounge, Dave Jemilo, about his epic restoration of the club to its former speakeasy glory, and hear how the Green Mill helped found the improv-rich tradition that is the poetry slam. And we’ll trace the arrival of jazz in Chicago and the city’s reign as America’s jazz capital during the 1920s, and tour the bizzare, outer-spaced-themed world of Sun Ra, and his days in Chicago where he helped light the fuse for one of the country’s richest avant garde jazz scenes.