Now Is : May 2026

1. Devin Gray, Will Greene, Ishmael Ali
2. Haruhi Kobayashi
3. King Dom Cummies

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

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

Listen Here! Remembering Eddie Harris

1. Junius Paul Sextet with Marqueal Jordan, Justin Dillard, Samuel Jewell, Chris Paquette, Larry Brown

LUNCH-TIME №3

1. Dave Miller, Bill MacKay

AfriClassical Futures Series

1. Theresa May — Dizygotic Energy

1. Tricia Park
2. William Jason Raynovich
3. Mo Ryan
4. Ravenswood Winds : Lily Floeter, Laura Perkett, Dan Williams, Anna Jacobson, Airan Wright
5. Wurtz-Berger Duo : Alyson Berger, Amy Wurtz
6. Amos Gillespie Quartet with Eric Leise, Richard Zili, Dave Keller
7. Shi-An Costello
8. Frank Abbinanti
9. Amy Wurtz

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. Black Diamond : Hunter Diamond, Artie Black, Matt Ulery, Neil Hemphill

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

one magic night (on human scale)

1. Paige Alice Naylor, Aaron Lopez, Disc Jacqui, Andy Hall, Madeleine Aguilar

1. Chicago Noise Free-Jazz Orchestra: Geyser Lane

Comfort Music

1. Al Kolot
2. tat songs
3. ragenap+dathon

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

Sonorous Somatic 010

1. Ernest Dawkins's New Horizons Quartet

1. Unimaginable Futures : Maxx McGathey, Wills Mckenna, Justin Peterson, Mehtab Kirtan

Quadraphonics: SAIC x UC Duo Concert

1. Senem Pirler, James Wetzel
2. Lou Mallozzi, Kari Watson
3. Hao Zhen, Sylvan Talavera
4. Paige Alice Naylor, Ryan Garvey
5. D Wibowo, Jack Herscowitz

Eardrum Series

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

1. Slow Slow Loris
2. Heavy Pauses
3. Death Pyre
4. Animals Talking School
5. Soundoferror

Chicago Jazz String Summit 2026

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

1. Alexander Paños
2. Deep Glens
3. Mukqs
4. Lynyn

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. Questionable Decisions

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. Amos Egleston Quartet with Garrett Frees, John Sutton, Andy Danstrom

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. Rakesh Chaurasia, Salar Nader

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. ASY Quartet : Andrew Scott Young, Dave Miller, Luke Polipnick, Bill Harris

1. Sam Prekop, John McEntire
2. Jungle Boogie

1. Ben LaMar Gay, Mike Reed
2. DJ Raven Wright

Intervention 2

1. Jake Leech
2. Maiuscula

1. Darren Johnston's Chicago Knockabouts, with Jon Irabagon, Dave Rempis, Tim Daisy
2. Paul Bedal Quartet with Greg Ward, Matt Ulery, Quin Kirchner

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

1. Extraordinary Popular Delusions

Resonance Arts : Cross Modulations

1. Beatrice Lynn
2. Jake Leech, Sam Clapp

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. Ernest Dawkins's New Horizons Ensemble Redux

1. Casts — Album release
2. Paige Alice Naylor

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

1. Luc Mosley

Relax Attack Jazz Series

1. Marisa Cravero X Ella Grace

1. Lane Tech Jazz

Tangible Music

1. Jeb Bishop, Tom Lowery
2. Tromblau, Nova Zaii

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

Jazz Composer Night

1. Arman Sangalang

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

Improvised Music Series

1. Tallulah Bankheist : Hedra Rowan, Nick Meryhew
2. Tommy Carroll's Original Medicine, with Preyas Roy, Maggie Cousin, Chandler Browne, Andrew Scott Young

Side Yard Sounds

1. Dustin Laurenzi, Dan Bitney, Daniel Van Duerm

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

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

1. Jeff Swanson Trio with Matt Ulery, Jon Deitemeyer

Elastro

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

1. Cole DeGenova and Friends

Resonance Arts Presents

1. Norman Long

1. Gerrit Hatcher, Zander Raymond

1. Northwestern Contemporary Music Ensemble — music by Elijah Daniel Smith, Matthew Huang Mailman, Jianing Yang, Kelley Sheehan, Frederic Rzewski

1. Null Copula
2. Solar Yolk
3. Cigar
4. Nosse Noos Nase

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. Robbie Lynn Hunsinger, Tatsu Aoki
2. Tyler Wagner
3. Sarah Clausen, Caroline Jesalva

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

1. Ben Schmidt-Swartz Solo

113 Composers Collective Present

1. Maya Bennardo — music by Maya Bennardo, Benjamin J M Klein, Joshua Musikantow, Tiffany M Skidmore, Kyle Hutchins

1. RAGE Thormbones : Mattie Barbier, Weston Olencki

Frequency Series Presents

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

1. Jim Baker
2. Jason Stein, Damon Smith, Adam Shead

Mysterium

1. Deeply Chamber Choir
2. Ro Lundberg's Addendum

Relax Attack Jazz Series

1. Max Brown Quartet

The Visible Hand

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

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

Pleiades Series

1. SAY MAYFIRE
2. Émilie Fortin

Splice Series

1. Kari Watson, Michael Zerang, Peter Maunu

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

1. Eric Boeren, Joshua Abrams, Mike Reed

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. Josh Harlow

1. Katie Ernst Solo
2. Mai Sugimoto, LeRoy Bach

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

1. Isaiah Spencer Trio

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

1. Banana Acid
2. Ro(b)//ert Lundberg

DANCE!

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

1. Jim Baker, Ben Schmidt-Swartz, Chris Dammann, George Marich

1. Marisa Anderson

1. UChicago New Music Ensemble with special guests the Varo String Quartet

1. Amos Egleston, Katie Ernst, Andy Danstrom

1. Sandpusher
2. Emily Rach Beisel
3. Bill Harris, Tyler Wagner, Caroline Jesalva

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. Eric Boeren 5tet, with Keefe Jackson, Jason Adasiewicz, Joshua Abrams, Mike Reed
2. Erez Dessel's Something Special with Will Greene, Aaron Kaufman-Levine, Garrett Frees, Gerrit Hatcher