Three Beats: Jazz great Eddie Johnson gets a posthumous CD release; experimental duo Cleared celebrates the cassette; Rockford emo band Joie de Vivre says au revoir

by Peter Margasak, Bill Meyer and Leor Galil A posthumous CD release for the great Eddie Johnson Tenor saxophonist Eddie Johnson, who died last year on April 7 at age 89, was one of Chicago's greatest jazz musicians, a pure embodiment of the classic swing he'd grown up playing.…

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