Now Is : A Chicago Music Calendar

Fulcrum Point New Music Project Presents Neuromaze: Joyful Sparks

1. Stephen Burns, Steve Roberts, Kyle Flens, Rika Seko, Christian Dillingham, with guest artist Michiyo Suzuki — music by Ginka Mizuki, Gene Pritsker

1. Missing Piece and Henry Zheng

1. Chad Kouri's Water, Earth and Air Trio, with Josh Harlow, Vincent Davis

Urethral Soundings — Album release

1. Mrs Hands, with Hedra Rowan, Jeff Goulet

1. Groppler Zorn : Chris Moore, Ian Christenson, Eric Novak, Jeffrey Sherfey, Ben Kinsinger, Nabeel el-Sayed, John Steiner, Nicholas McMillan, Andy Danstrom

1. Isaiah Spencer Quartet

1. Brian Citro, Christian Dillingham

1. Toby Summerfield
2. Sky Brothers : Nick Broste, Hawk Colman
3. The Shape Of : Donny Mahlmeister, Theo Katsaounis
4. ragenap+dathon+adams : Joel Berk, Corey Lyons, Alexander Adams

Asian Improv aRts Midwest Arts Initiatives presents

1. The Miminari Trio : Kioto Aoki, Haruhi Kobayashi, Mai Sugimoto

1. Dave Rempis, Joshua Abrams, Avreeayl Ra + Jim Baker

1. Just Friends Trio

1. Joe Policastro Trio with Dave Miller, Mikel Avery

1. Jeff Chan/Cultural Art Quartet

1. The Middle
2. Priya Fink, Will Stevens, JT O'Toole

Frequency Series : Flens & Friends

1. Kyle Flens — music by Ayanna Woods, Ben Zucker, Adam D O'Dell, Darlene Castro, Matthew Mason

1. Paul Giallorenzo, Ausberto Acevedo, Tyler Damon

Homeroom Residency

1. Tim Daisy, Mabel Kwan, Scott Dean Taylor, with guests Beth McDonald, Robbie Lynn Hunsinger

1. Extraordinary Popular Delusions

1. Great Black Music Ensemble

Spirits of Our Ancestors — The Music of Randy Weston and Melba Liston

1. Geof Bradfield Sextet

Intersecting Planes

1. Vanishing Point : Carmen Abelson, Dylan Feldpausch, Rebecca Miller, J Holzen — music by Kevin Lau, Gabriela Ortiz, Paul Wiancko, Gabriella Smith, Reena Esmail

Relax Attack Jazz Series

1. Dave Rempis, Tyler Damon

1. Tromblau&Friends : Emma Blau with Dakarai Barclay, Carmani Edwards, Indigo, Max Lazarus, Jonah Lazarus, Julius Tucker

The Visible Hand

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

Splice Series

1. Chris Dammann, Peter Maunu, Ben Schmidt-Swartz, Scott Dean Taylor

2x4

1. Hunter Diamond, Sarah Clausen
2. Robbie Lynn Hunsinger, Tatsu Aoki
3. Mabel Kwan, Ayako Kato
4. Jason Stein, Julian Kirshner

Relax Attack Jazz Series

1. Heat On : Ed Wilkerson, Fred Jackson Jr., Nick Macri, Lily Finnegan

Mosaic

1. Picosa : Jennie Oh Brown, Andrea R DiOrio, Elizabeth Brausa Brathwaite, Tahirah Whittington, Daniel Schlosberg, Jonathon Kirk — music by Georg Philipp Telemann, David Clay Mettens, Andile Khumalo, Jessie Montgomery, Clarice Assad, David Lang, Florent Ghys, Jonathan Bailey Holland, Fred Onovwerosuoke

1. Zander Raymond
2. Eli Schmitt, Gerrit Hatcher, Zander Raymond

1. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis
2. Yr Knives

Improvised Music Series

1. Devin Gray Solo
2. Will Greene, Ishmael Ali, Lily Finnegan

Nick Mazzarella Residency

1. Nick Mazzarella, Dennis Carroll, George Fludas

CSO & Constellation Present: Mike Reed’s Chicago Inspiration

1. The City Was Yellow : Geof Bradfield with students of Jazz Links
2. The Magic Box : Mike Reed with Nicole Mitchell, Tomeka Reid, Greg Ward, Joshua Abrams, Jason Adasiewicz

1. Jason Calhoun
2. Zander Raymond
3. Gianni Andreatta

1. Jayashree Aravind with Anugrah Lakshmanan, Ashwin Subramanian

"Collected Works and War of the Martian Ghosts" Release Show

1. Charles Joseph Smith
2. Chelsea Bridge x Pan American
3. DJ Potions

AfriClassical Futures Series

1. Theresa May — Dizygotic Energy

Ficciones

1. Fonema Consort — music by Gabriel Bolaños Chamorro, Genie Alvarado, Alberto Carretero, Michele Abondano, Jianing Yang, Rebecca Saunders

1. Dan Moroz, Jue He

1. Yea Big, Jon Byler Dann, Tatsuya Nakatani, Tatsu Aoki

1. Extraordinary Popular Delusions

1. Luke Schneider
2. Mute Duo
3. 21 Million Kites

L’dor v’dor

1. Arianna Zukerman, Heather Johnson, Jason Wirth — music by Leonard Bernstein, Laura Kaminsky, Ricky Ian Gordon, Laura Karpman, David Leisner, Alex Weiser, David Hanlon

1. Tromblau&Friends : Emma Blau with Dakarai Barclay, Carmani Edwards, Indigo, Max Lazarus, Jonah Lazarus, Julius Tucker

The Visible Hand

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

1. Okapi : Scott Mitchell Gorski, Lindsey Paige Miller
2. Emily Beisel
3. Nolan Chin

1. Colleen : Libres antes del final

Relax Attack Jazz Series

1. Filharmonic

Improvised Music Series

1. Nick Anaya, Christopher Dammann, Julian Kirshner
2. Michael Zerang, Adam Shead, Bill Harris, Weasel Walter

1. Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, Macie Stewart — Record release
2. Kari Watson

1. Matthew Muñeses/Arman Sangalang Quartet, with Sam Peters, Dana Hall

Side Yard Sounds

1. ABEEKU : David Boykin, Crai'Sean George, Jon-Edward Stokes
2. inga

1. KVL : Quin Kirchner, Daniel Van Duerm, Matthew Lux

Chicago Jazz String Summit 2026

1. Zosha Warpeha, Carlo Costa
2. Ayman Asfour, Marwan Allam, Eric Allen
3. Laura Ortman

CLEAT Series

1. nnirror
2. Crystina Windham
3. Ben Zucker Brass Quartet

1. Questionable Decisions : Alex Wing, Michael Levin, Preyas Roy, Chris Bernhardt, Paul Abella

Eardrum Series

1. LeRoy Bach, Dan Bitney
2. Sarah Clausen, Tyler Wagner

Chicago Jazz String Summit 2026

1. Theresa Wong
2. Indira Edwards, King Sophia
3. Carla Kihlstedt

1. Clark
2. Mode Hexe

1. Chicago Jazz String Summit 2026

1. Extraordinary Popular Delusions

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

sounding/BODY Presents: BODY MATTER

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

1. J0Y. featuring Matthew Davis

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

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

1. Sam Prekop, John McEntire
2. Jungle Boogie

1. Slow Slow Loris
2. Paige Alice Naylor
3. Illusion of Safety
4. dathon

1. Extraordinary Popular Delusions

Donovan's Garage

1. Donovan Mixon, Dushun Mosley, Edward Wilkerson

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

Relax Attack Jazz Series

1. Del Trio

Jazz Composer Night

1. Arman Sangalang

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

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

AIRMW Arts Initiatives Presents

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

1. Ben Schmidt-Swartz Solo

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

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