Avant Jazz: Past

Zorn’s ensemble w/ Julian Lage, Jorge Roeder, & Kenny Wollesen, returns to Roulette to performs classics from the Masada songbooks.

Zorn’s ensemble w/ Julian Lage, Jorge Roeder, & Kenny Wollesen, returns to Roulette to perform classics from the Masada songbooks.

Van Lier Fellow and gayageum player DoYeon Kim combines jazz and Korean folk music with Tyshawn Sorey, Matt Mitchell, and Henry Fraser.

For his 2024 Roulette Commission, the saxophonist and composer premiers a hybrid work of chamber music and wordless puppet theatre.

Roulette Resident gabby fluke-mogul premieres GUT, a new work for solo violin, fx, & fourteen speakers with Danishta Rivero.

An evening celebrating the work of Sun Ra, in collaboration with Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago.

Trumpeter and electroacoustic composer Chris Williams premieres a new work for wind trio with Kalia Vandever and Patrick Shiroishi.

Double bill presenting the vibes/trumpet duo and SeVeN features Roulette Resident Patricia Brennan and other creative improvisers.

A collaborative score and silent film that grew out of the intimate letters an immigrant sends home.

"Weaving Strands of Sound" is a collaborative musical experience between Hear in Now Expanded and the Ethiopia-based QWANQWA.