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Second only to true love, no bond in life is tighter or endures longer than one with someone you’ve made music with.Friendship and shared experience are part of it, of course—all of those hours spent rehearsing, recording, performing, and waiting to perform, to say nothing of crossing the country hu

For years, Chicagoans could hear world-class musician Jon Weber just by stepping into the lounge at Chicago’s Four Seasons Hotel. Now, people all over the country will be able to hear Weber as he steps into Marion McPartland’s roll as host of the syndicated radio program Piano Jazz.

On today's Global Notes, we encounter the zurla, a wooden horn with a big sound. Local musician Blagoj Lamnjov plays some folk songs on this one-of-a-kind Balkan wind instrument.

War is good for nothing but Chicago seemed to be in the midst of perhaps a new chapter in the local club wars.

Man Is Man is Chicago musician Christa Meyer's new project. Meyer matured musically in the band Puerto Muerto with her longtime co-songwriter and husband, Tim Kelley. Now, a few years after their divorce, Meyer is fully engaged to her new project.

It's been hard to get into a wintry state of mind this January, given the season had been such a non-starter in Chicago. So I'm taking the recent thermometer drop and falling flakes as a much-needed jump start from Jack Frost.

On today's Global Notes, Jerome and Eight Forty-Eight and Radio M host Tony Sarabia listen to what happens when music and politics intersect.This collision is familiar all over the world.