Willie Pickens's guest appearances

Willie Pickens

Piano Jazz Shorts

Campus Events

Arts@UChicago

Jazz88

David Logan

Maggie Brown

Michael McDonald

Richard Johnson

Alan Alda

Steve Simon

Joni Mitchell

Harold Lopez-Nussa

Ella Fitzgerald

Martha Nussbaum

Leonard Bernstein

John Wright

Christopher Kennedy

Julián Castro

Sarah Morris

OwlTail

Jazz88's Development Officer, Janis Lane-Ewart, talks about pianist Willie Pickens III who passed away Dec. 13, 2017.

Obituary: Willie Pickens III

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu.For months Oyekunle Oyegbemi had his eye on hosting an event at University of Chicago's Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. His group, the IFA Yoruba Contemporary Art Foundation, had University ties that made Rockefeller an ideal venue for a performance by one of the organization's founding board members Grammy award-winning jazz vocalist Cassandra Wilson.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu.<br><br>For months Oyekunle Oyegbemi had his eye on hosting an event at University of Chicago's Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. His group, the IFA Yoruba Contemporary Art Foundation, had University ties that made Rockefeller an ideal venue for a performance by one of the organization's founding board members Grammy award-winning jazz vocalist Cassandra Wilson.

Groups work in harmony for Hyde Park Jazz Fest - Willie Pickens