PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Chicago Jazz Mission This Week, Is ...

True, it would be physically impossible to catch all 10 of the best jazz shows playing this weekend. But that doesn't mean you can't try: Ari Brown 9 p.m. Friday at the Green Mill Jazz Club, 4802 N. Broadway; $12; 773-878-5552. Leonine tenor saxophonists never have been in short supply in Chicago, which has given the world Von Freeman and Gene Ammons, Johnny Griffin and Clifford Jordan, Eddie Harris and Ira Sullivan, and scores more. Ari Brown belongs to this regal lineage, his outsized so...

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