Now Is : A Chicago Music Calendar

1. Ancestral Sonic Healing Collective : Dushun Mosley, Taalib-Din Ziyad, Carlos Pride, Art "Turk" Burton

1. Clark
2. Mode Hexe

1. Chicago Jazz String Summit 2026

1. The Bass Showcase with Tommy Shermulis

1. Extraordinary Popular Delusions

Persian Music Salon

1. Mehrnam Rastegari

1. Zander Raymond
2. Kari Watson
3. DJ Shivani

Relax Attack Jazz Series

1. Morgan Turner Quartet

The Visible Hand

1. Alex Wing, David Boykin, Preyas Roy
2. Open free improvisation jam

1. Corey Smith performs 'Essay on Resonance'
2. Heavy Tiny

1. Dylan Ryan 4tet, with Mai Sugimoto, Jason Adasiewicz, Nick Macri

Relax Attack Jazz Series

1. The Samples

Heavy Air Happy Hour

1. Mickey Farès, Jeff Goulet, Andrew Scott Young

sounding/BODY Presents: BODY MATTER

1. Ben Roidl-Ward, Ty Bouque — music by Ti McCormack

1. Dragonfruit : D Jean-Baptiste, Shravan Raghuram
2. Allen Moore, Nick Meryhew

1. Dave Miller Trio with John Tate, Kyle Swan

1. J0Y. featuring Matthew Davis

1. Chicago Noise Free-Jazz Orchestra: Pepper, Pepper, Pepper

Blank Box

1. Julian Otis with Scott Rubin, Paige Brown, Naydja Bruton, Gabrielle Lochard, olula negre, kezia

1. Douglas McCombs, Michael Vallera
2. Field Hospitals
3. The Shape Of
4. DJ Kenny

Party 2026

1. Dal Niente's 20th Anniversary Celebration
2. Performance of Fausto Romitelli's Professor Bad Trip, Lesson 1
3. Performance of works by Tomás Gueglio Santiago Diez-Fischer, Diana Soh, Eliza Brown, Roscoe Mitchell

Side Yard Sounds

1. Ana Everling, Edinho Gerber

8th Annual Elastic Arts Benefit

1. 2026 Elastic Achievement Award presented to Reneé C Baker
2. AACM Percussion Ensemble
3. Infrathin : Whitney Johnson, Lula Asplund
4. Praiseworthy, by Sam Lewis, Hunter Diamond

1. Bonnie Han Jones

1. Chicago Microbes : Will Greene, Jason Roebke, Phil Sudderberg

1. Andrew Scott Young, Caroline Jesalva, Dave Miller, Tyler Damon

1. Sam Prekop, John McEntire
2. Jungle Boogie

1. Illusion of Safety
2. Slow Slow Loris
3. dathon
4. eXU-9

1. Extraordinary Popular Delusions

1. Reona
2. Sarah Lutkenhaus
3. Tyler Damon, Leroy Bach, Mai Sugimoto

Donovan's Garage

1. Donovan Mixon, Dushun Mosley, Edward Wilkerson

"All My Friends"

1. OLEA Ensemble : Kate Kilgus, Alayne Honaker, Marissa Kerbel

1. Casts — Album release
2. Paige Alice Naylor

1. Potliquor : Sharon Udoh, Allen Moore — Record release
2. Ben Hall, Marvin Tate
3. Paul Giallorenzo

Relax Attack Jazz Series

1. Marisa Cravero X Ella Grace

1. Lane Tech Jazz

The Visible Hand

1. Alex Wing, David Boykin, Preyas Roy
2. Open free improvisation jam

Aerophonic Presents

1. Dave Rempis, Mark Feldman, Tim Daisy
2. Mai Sugimoto Trio with Joshua Abrams, Isaiah Spencer

1. Cole DeGenova, Quin Kirchner

Relax Attack Jazz Series

1. Del Trio

Night School : experimental video and music

1. Sisi Wattanagool, Dustin Laurenzi
2. Clark Woods, Fred Jackson Jr
3. Alexander Dupuis, Jeb Bishop

1. Zander Raymond Solo
2. Tyler Wagner, Zander Raymond

Jazz Composer Night

1. Arman Sangalang

1. Chicago Noise Free-Jazz Orchestra: Rue Mori and Braeden Rodriguez

Transcendent Souls IV

1. J Holzen, Jadie Reeves, Mere Harrach, Olivia Moyer, Evé Sanchez, Ari H Scott, Asher Sizemore, Cameron Slaugh, Roman Wood — music by Ahmed Alabaca, Lily Koslow, Jadie Reeves, Rina Sawayama, Ari H Scott, Asher Sizemore

Side Yard Sounds

1. Dustin Laurenzi, Dan Bitney, Daniel Van Duerm

1. Grossman Ensemble — Katherine Balch, Shawn Okpebholo, Gity Razaz, Matthew Ricketts

Elastro

1. Jason Zeh
2. Ancient Futures : Scott Rubin, Qū Jié

Resonance Arts Presents

1. Norman Long

1. Gerrit Hatcher, Zander Raymond, Eli Schmitt

AIRMW Arts Initiatives Presents

1. Juliann Wang's My Little Realities, with Ben Zucker, Graham Nelson, Evan Kopek, John Rozman

1. Kieran Daly, Dustin Laurenzi, Jason Roebke, Phil Sudderberg — Record release
2. Christopher Riggs

1. Ben Schmidt-Swartz Solo

1. Luke Gullickson, Amanda DeBoer Bartlett — music by Peter Garland

Frequency Series Presents

1. Kylwryia Trio : Erica Dicker, John Gattis, Mabel Kwan — music by Eric Wubbels, Katherine Young

Relax Attack Jazz Series

1. Max Brown Quartet

1. Nova Linea Musica Concert of World Premieres
2. NLM Piano Trio : Rabia Brooke, Nathanael Canfield, Daniel Dorsey — music by Graham Meyer, Joel Y Hoo, Jason Zhang

Relax Attack Jazz Series

1. ABEEKU : David Boykin with Crai'Sean George, Luc Mosley, Jon-Edward Stokes

1. Mycelium New Music : Justin Weiss, Paul Novak, Michael Tran, Dylan Feldpausch, Isidora Nojkovic, Jonathan Hannau, Kyle Flens, guest artists Kristina Bachrach, Kari Novilla — music by Saad Haddad, Charles Peck, Cheng Jin Koh, Luciano Berio

1. Griffin Brown, Zander Raymond, Paige Alice Naylor

Improvised Music Series

1. Jeff Wheaton's Ahura, with Vincent Davis, Javier Red
2. Interim Assassin : Jeb Bishop, Daniel Burke, Erik Sowa

Thunder and Light

1. Lakeshore Rush : Erin Kendall Murphy, Laura McLaughlin Lingle, Amos Gillespie, Janice Lee, Christopher Ferrer, Elena Doubovitskaya — music by Nino Rota, Amos Gillespie, Maurice Ravel, Philippe Gaubert, Nicola Resanovic, Larry Axelrod

1. Chicago Noise Free-Jazz Orchestra: Smith & Mosley

Fürstliche Rubine: 113 Composers Collective and Fonema Consort

1. Fonema — music by Chaya Czernowin, Tiffany M Skidmore, Arnold Schoenberg

1. Drazek Fuscaldo : Przemyslaw Krys Drazek, Brent Fuscaldo, with special guests Grażyna Auguścik, Mark Feldman, Tatsu Aoki, Michael Zerang

The Horns From Mars + Mars Williams Toy Story

1. Ken Vandermark, Gerrit Hatcher, Dave Rempis
2. Rin Peisert, David Hurlin

Side Yard Sounds

1. The Fancies with Death
2. Jackiemandrake

The Weird, Wild World of Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen

1. Stare At The Sun

DANCE!

1. Lakeshore Rush : Erin Kendall Murphy, Laura McLaughlin Lingle, Amos Gillespie, Janice Lee, Christopher Ferrer, Elena Doubovitskaya

1. Marisa Anderson

1. Water is the Sun
2. Boy Dirt Car
3. Soundoferror

Frequency Series

1. Blacktop Percussion
2. Bridge Percussion
3. Bridge Percussion & Blacktop Percussion

1. Alex Cunningham, Weasel Walter
2. Andrew Scott Young Solo
3. Mabel Kwan, Emily Beisel, Bill Harris

1. Brian Citro Organ Trio, with Tom Vaitsas, Peter Mack

1. Edith Judith : Katie Ernst, Dustin Laurenzi, with guest Devin Drobka
2. Treyf

1. The Drum Also Sings : Gustavo Cortiñas, Isaiah Spencer, Dave King

AIRMW Arts Initiatives Presents

1. Bass Dreams minus B : Tatsu Aoki, Adam Shead, Rami Atassi, Terry Tanaka
2. BYSH : Ben Baker Billington, Andrew Scott Young, Mai Sugimoto, Bill Harris

1. Nick Dunston with Ben Lamar Gay, Tomeka Reid, Julian Otis, Caroline Jesalva

1. Gallery Talk by Marilyn Crispell
2. Performance with Jason Stein, Damon Smith, Adam Shead

Complacency presents Extended Stillness II

1. Jeb Bishop, Erik Sowa, Thymme Jones, Daniel Burke, Jeff Goulet, Taralie Peterson, Sue Wolf, Johanna Brock, D Bayne, Katie Klocke, Ross Feller, Rob Frye, Julie Pomerleau

1. Devin Shaffer
2. Cancer House
3. Lia Kohl