Now Is : February 2026

Cello as a Human Voice

1. Nick Photinos, Yasuko Oura

1. Art Turk Burton and Congo Square

1. Jeff Kimmel, Graham Stephenson, Kory Reeder, Jack Langdon
2. Kory Reeder, Nick Zoulek

1. William Jason Raynovich with Origin of Animal

1. Jon Irabagon, Joshua Abrams, Chris Corsano

1. Extraordinary Popular Delusions

Donovan's Garage : Electro Acoustic Explorations

1. Victor Sanders, Ultra-Violet Archer, Stevenson Valentor, Mark Feldman

1. The Whistler Jam led by Matt Ulery and Quin Kirchner

The Visible Hand

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

CLEAT Series

1. Norman Long — Album release
2. Regina Martinez

Relax Attack Jazz Series

1. Azure Main

Label Night: Calligram Records

1. Chad McCullough with Jon Irabagon, Matt Ulery, Quin Kirchner

Improvised Music Series

1. Sarah Clausen Solo
2. Naydja Bruton's Rhythm Ninjas, with Fred Jackson Jr, Caroline Jesalva, Tromblau, Carmani Edwards

Mai Sugimoto Residency

1. Mai Sugimoto, Jim Baker
2. Mai Sugimoto, Ed Wilkerson Jr, Katie Ernst, Jason Roebke

1. Ishmael Ali with Brianna Tong, Ed Wilkerson, Jim Baker, Bill Harris — Album release
2. Zach Moore, Andrew Tham, Chris Wood, Sam Scranton

1. Javier Red Quartet with Dakarai Barclay, Jeff Wheaton, Daniel Gayden

1. Glenn Kotche Solo

1. One Time Out : Michael Hudson-Casanova, Adam Shead, Andrew Sudhibhasilp

1. BASIC : Chris Forysth, Mikel Patrick Avery, Douglas McCombs
2. BCMC : Cooper Crain, Bill MacKay
3. Flux Bikes

Asian Improv aRts Midwest Presents

1. Trio WAZ : Edward Wilkerson Jr, Tatsu Aoki, Michael Zerang

1. Deleuze New Music Collective — music by Orson Abram, Tom Bailo, Tomer Rozen, Tyler Shaver, Jack Hamill, Jaime García-Añoveros, Wes Coffin

1. Ben MacDonald, Tyler Wagner, Scott Dean Taylor, Dave Miller

AfriClassical Futures

1. Caitlin Edwards, John Bitoy

1. Amphitrio : Andrei Petrache, Mike Alex, Philip Goron + Ana Everling

1. Geof Bradfield, Tim Daisy

1. Extraordinary Popular Delusions

The Souls of Black Folk Suite

1. Angel Bat Dawid with The Great Blk Music Infinity Ensemble and D-Composed

Relax Attack Jazz Series

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

1. Jason Stein, Jon Irabagon, Joshua Abrams, Isaiah Spencer

The Visible Hand

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

1. Daniel Wyche, Emily Beisel, Bill Harris
2. Sarah Lutkenhaus
3. Luca Cimarusti

2x4

1. Superposition : Todd A Carter, Michael Hartman
2. Ishmael Ali, Peter Maunu
3. Jason Stein, Paul Giallorenzo
4. Fred Jackson Jr, Mike Reed

Heavy Air Happy Hour

1. Lily Finnegan, Jake Nussbaum, Ivette Colón

Improvised Music Series

1. Jason Roebke - "Lights Are Low" Release Celebration

Mai Sugimoto Residency

1. Mai Sugimoto, LeRoy Bach
2. Mai Sugimoto Quartet with Fred Jackson Jr, Ethan Philion, Isaiah Spencer

1. Contemporary Music Ensemble — music by Yoko Ono, John Cage

1. East Loop : Wanees Zarour with Samuel Mösching, Bryan Pardo, Catie Hickey, Andrew Lawrence, Vinny Kabat, Nick Kabat

Black History Month Concert and Conversation

1. David Boykin plays and Researcher Randy Evans and UNIA Director of Industry Clyde Banks discuss Carter G Woodson's Miseducation of the Negro

Elastro Series

1. Joe Westerlund, Trever Hagen
2. Bonnie Han Jones
3. Andrew Clinkman, Will Greene

1. Civil Disobedience : David Ambrosio with Donny McCaslin, Marquis Hill, Bruce Barth, EJ Strickland

1. Chris Corsano, Gerrit Hatcher

Solo Piano Spotlight

1. Natasha Stojanovska

AfriClassical Futures : Modern Roots

1. Caitlin Edwards, John Bitoy — music by Julius Eastman, David Baker, Nathalie Joachim, James Lee III

Night School

1. Ed Wilkerson Jr, Allegra Harvard
2. Missing Piece
3. Maya Nguyen

Frequency Series Presents

1. Departure Duo : Nina Guo, Edward Kass — music by Erin Gee, Christian Wolff, Tomás Gueglio, Mikhail Johnson

1. Russ Johnson Quartet with Mark Feldman, Ethan Philion, Tim Daisy

Resonance Arts: Cross Modulations

1. Seldomly Trio : Jeb Bishop, Daniel Burke, Billie Howard, Thymme Jones, Katie Klocke, Julie Pomerleau, Susan Wolf
2. Snek Trio : Janna Lee, Reid Karris, Erik Sowa

New Music Chicago presents

1. Flannau Duo : Jonathan Hannau, Kyle Flens — music by Alexis Lamb, Noah Jenkins, Marc Mellits

Relax Attack Jazz Series

1. Leon Lewis-Nicol Trio

The Visible Hand

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

1. Ryosuke Kiyasu
2. Melon Sprout
3. Gabe Life 100
4. Ishmael Ali, Nicole Alonso

Relax Attack Jazz Series

1. Sofia Koulouvaris Quartet

In The Room Concert Series

1. Healing Vibrations with Taalib-Din Ziyad

1. LeRoy Bach, Dan Bitney

Improvised Music Series

1. Mickey Farès, Jeff Goulet
2. Lorazepam : Erik Sowa, Erica Miller, Dan Hansen

Mai Sugimoto Residency

1. Mai Sugimoto Saxophone Quartet with Keefe Jackson, Dave Rempis, Jon Irabagon

Chicago Winter Jazz Fair

1. 12:00PM-12:45PM Education Talk #1 — Neil Tesser
2. 12:15PM-1:15PM Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras
3. 12:30PM-1:30PM MRQuartet
4. 1:00PM-2:00PM Marques Carroll Quartet
5. 1:15PM-2:15PM Jim Baker Solo
6. 1:15PM-2:15PM Joe 2 Morrow
7. 2:00PM-3:00PM Julius Tucker Quartet
8. 2:30PM-3:30PM Gustavo Cortiñas's "The Crisis Knows No Borders"
9. 3:30PM-4:30PM Education Talk #2 — Dana Hall
10. 3:30PM-4:30PM Jazz Links Ensemble
11. 4:00PM-5:00PM Christopher McBride & The Whole Proof
12. 4:15PM-5:15PM Christian Dillingham Quartet
13. 5:00PM-6:00PM Education Talk #3 — Zakiya Fola
14. 5:15PM-7:15PM Velvet Lounge Jam Session — Isaiah Spencer Quartet
15. 5:30PM-6:30PM Christian Swan Quartet
16. 6:00PM-7:00PM Charles Rick Heath Quartet
17. 6:45PM-7:45PM Stephanie Rivera y su Orquesta
18. 6:45PM-7:45PM Bobbi Wilsyn & Company
19. 8:10PM-9:40PM Robert Irving III — Miles En-Trane-ment

Langston Hughes: Boil It Down

1. Modern Black Music Ensemble

Seth and Gene's Excellent Electroacoustic Adventure

1. Seth Boustead, Gene Pritsker, Lesi Mei, Todd Rewoldt, Ljiljana Winkler, Robert Ford, Imelda O'Reilly, Roger Aplon

1. Drunks With Guns
2. Pet Peeves
3. Prime Angel Weather
4. Gas Mask Horse

1. Radio Outernational : Wayne Montana, Areif Sless-Kitain, Aaron Shapiro, Hunter Diamond, Kenthaney Redmond
2. KVL : Quin Kirchner, Daniel Van Duerm, Matthew Lux

1. Zosha Warpeha

1. Jarek Bester with Mark Feldman, Quin Kirchner, Matt Ulery
2. Metropolitan Jazz Octet

1. Lily Finnegan Trio

1. Ben MacDonald, Tyler Wagner, Scott Dean Taylor, Andrew Trim

AACM Chamber Music Series

1. Modern Black Music Ensemble featuring Lamar Carey Curtis, Taalib-Din Ziyad

1. Tina Lefauve
2. Holden Linton
3. Allen Moore
4. Nick Meryhew

Frequency Series Presents

1. Del Sol Quartet : Ben Kreith, Hyeyung Sol Yoon, Charlton Lee, Kathryn Bates — music by Chinary Ung, Meilina Tsui, Theresa Wong, Vivian Fung, Osnat Netzer

1. Hunter Diamond, Mike Reed
2. Fred Jackson Jr, Paul Giallorenzo, Bill Harris

1. Extraordinary Popular Delusions

Pleiades Series

1. Nu A.M.
2. Delilah Smith
3. Improv jam open to all femme/trans/nonbinary performers

Frequency Festival

1. Ian Antonio, Xin Yi Chong, Doug Perkins — music by Tristan Perich
2. Jennifer Torrence — music by Kelley Sheehan, Kari Watson

Relax Attack Jazz Series

1. Ellie Rui

The Drum Also Sings

1. Third Coast Percussion — music by JaRon Brown, Robert Dillon, Andrea Venet, Ivan Trevino, Jessie Montgomery, Jlin, Augusta Read Thomas, Steve Reich, Alexis Lamb

The Visible Hand

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

1. Nick Mazzarella Trio with Clark Sommers, Neil Hemphill

Frequency Festival

1. David Grubbs
2. RAGE Thormbones : Weston Olencki, Mattie Barbier

Relax Attack Jazz Series

1. Jameel Stephens Quintet

1. Kioto Aoki: Findings — films with live score by Robbie Lynn Hunsinger and Jamie Kempkers

1. Matt Ulery's Sifting Stars, with Jim Tashjian, Matt Gold, Katie Ernst

Frequency Festival

1. Olivia Block
2. ~Nois Quartet : Julian Velasco, Natalia Warthen, Jordan Lulloff, János Csontos — music by Alex Mincek

Improvised Music Series

1. Emily Rach Beisel
2. Rin Peisert, Jason Stein

Mai Sugimoto Residency

1. Mai Sugimoto Trio with Joshua Abrams, Isaiah Spencer
2. Mai Sugimoto Trio + Ben Lamar Gay

Sounds from Nature

1. OLEA Ensemble — music by Owen Hopper, Reinaldo Moya, Brad Balliett, Evan Williams

Ricardo Adame, "Without Hesitation" — Exhibition Opening Party

1. Performance by Lia Kohl, Rin Peisert, Irene Hsiao, Scott Rubin, Skyler Rowe

a fire that never dies

1. Fonema Consort with A.L.O.T.

Frequency Festival

1. Ensemble Dal Niente — music by Helmut Lachenmann, Jose Julio Diaz Infante, Ayanna Woods, Chaya Czernowin, Lei Liang

1. Contorno
2. The Singleman Affair

1. Twin Talk

Frequency Festival

1. Fredrik Rasten Solo

1. Brian Citro Quartet Nick Mazzarella, Christian Dillingham, Quin Kirchner

Dark Matter Series

1. Rizing Deity
2. Naydja Bruton's Rhythm Ninjas

1. NuAm
2. Quicksails
3. Melon Sprout
4. Slumpman Ray

Frequency Festival

1. Alasdair Roberts, Fredrik Rasten