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Search. He also worked in the Jazz Links program of the Jazz Institute Chicago (JIC) and led monthly jam sessions at the Chicago Cultural Center. In the course of his career, Chaney played with John Klemmer (with whom he also made several albums), Milt Jackson, Eddie Harris, Slide Hampton and David Fathead Newman, among others, and worked with Chicago musicians such as Dee Alexander, Kimberly Gordon and Steve Hashimoto. He was also the long-time artistic director of the JIC concert series Jazz City and Bebop Brass.
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In the following years, Chaney led other bands, first his Experience from 1973, with which he toured internationally and recorded several albums. The group was voted the best jazz band in Chicago at the Ninth Annual Reggae Awards; in 1992, it received first prize at the Hennesy Best of Chicago Jazz
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and in 1967, worked with Muhal Richard Abrams and Jodie Christian. During this time, he began his work as a music teacher and taught music theory. With the soul-jazz trio
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Chaney died of natural causes on December 19, 2012, in his adopted hometown of
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in the early 1960s. In 1965, he took part in the first sessions of the
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recorded a tribute to Chaney called "One for Ken" on his album
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in 1973. The group later came together again (in 1998) for the
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American musician, pianist and music educator (1938–2012)
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Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians
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Edmonton
Detroit
Chicago
Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians
Young-Holt Unlimited
Redd Holt
Am I the Same Girl
Art Blakey
Jazz Messengers
Woody Shaw
Pharoah Sanders
Ari Brown
Chicago Jazz Festival
Chicago, Illinois
Ari Brown
Groove Awakening


"Jazz pianist, educator Ken Chaney dead at 73"
Colin Larkin
The Guinness Who's Who of Soul Music
Guinness Publishing
ISBN
0-85112-733-9
The Book of Golden Discs
251
ISBN
0-214-20512-6
"The Awakening's reissue of 1972's Hear, Sense and Feel still uplifts through jazz and R&B"
"Ken Chaney"

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