Jazz For Lovers and Friends

All That Holiday Jazz! Featuring Holiday G.I. Jukebox with Elaine Dame

A mainstay of jazz in Chicago, Elaine Dame, who Time Out Chicago calls “a jazz dynamo” has been turning heads — from appearances at New York City’s Rainbow Room to headlining the Chicago Jazz Festival — for the past 20 years. Elaine takes us back to the WW II era when distances separating loved ones gave rise to some of the traditions we know today. Many of the holiday tunes from this era were worked into films during and after the war, and became instant holiday classics for members of the Armed Services.