When tenor saxophonist Fred Anderson died in 2010, the Velvet Lounge died with him.  Since the 1980s, his Near South Side club—just “the Velvet” to regulars—had been Chicago’s most reliable showcase for underground and experimental jazz artists, especially those in the storied Associatio n for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). The venue’s closure left a […] The post Chicago experimental jazz gets a downtown shrine you can touch appeared first on Chicago Reader. ...read more read less