Avant Jazz: Past

Pianist celebrates Bone Bells and Angel Falls, two major 2025 duo releases created with esteemed jazz guitarist and trumpeter.

Maqām Records presents a double bill of vocalist Hamid Al-Saadi and the revered Iraqi Maqam tradition, and Amir ElSaffar's New Quartet.

Joined by a 10-piece ensemble, the vibraphonist celebrates her new Pyroclastic release, exploring celestial shapes and musical structures.

Works by Braxton and his former collaborator, Mary Halvorson, for Roulette's year-long celebration of Braxton's 80th birthday. Free w/ RSVP

Our year-long celebration of Braxton continues with performances of his work by Ingrid Laubrock/Shinya Lin and The Tri-Centric Vocal Ensemble.

Inaugural performance of new ensemble featuring Nate Wooley, Laura Cocks, Travis Laplante, Wendy Eisenberg, and Lester St. Louis.

Joshua Abrams’s essential Chicago ensemble performs its “ecstatic minimalism” with an opening set from trombonist/composer Kalia Vandever.

The fourth annual M³ festival celebrates some of the most innovative composer-performers in the jazz and creative music scene.

Violinist opens the evening with South Indian classical Carnatic music followed by a set from improvising trumpeter.

An ensemble meditation on the immigrant mother's experience of fractured communication, through the architecture of the reverse life cycle.