Hometown Chicago to honor saxophonist Von Freeman, 87

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It has taken the National Endowment for the Arts three decades to recognize Chicago tenor saxophone legend Von Freeman with the country's highest jazz honor: the NEA's Jazz Masters Award.
Freeman, 87, will receive the prize, plus $25,000, next January at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, during the awards' 30th anniversary ceremony (as first reported in the Tribune on April 19).

 But Chicago – where Freeman was born and always has lived – long has recognized the man's outsized contribution to music, the latest tribute coming in the form of a major concert Thursday night at the Pritzker Pavilion, in Milllennium Park. "Truth Be Told: Celebrating the Legacy of Von Freeman" will kick off the seventh annual "Made in Chicago: World Class Jazz" series in the most fitting way possible: with an artistically ambitious, evening-length salute to an icon of Chicago jazz. Read complete story from chicagotribune.com