Jazz may be America's most original art form, but its history is littered with the sorry fates of musicians, both black and white, who died penniless and largely unknown. In "Side Man," his Tony Award-winning "memory play," Warren Leight drew on the life of his father, Donald, an ever-struggling, financially strapped jazz trumpeter. American Blue Theatre is staging a rare revival of the show. The post Riffing on the …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:00PM on April 21, 2015