Now Is : September 2026

Citywide Jazz Series

1. A Night With the Henry Johnson Quintet

Citywide Jazz Series : Tribute to Ari Brown

1. Ari Brown with Kirk Brown, Yosef Ben Israel, Avreeayl Ra, Dr Cuz

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

The Visible Hand

1. Alex Wing, Naydja Bruton, Preyas Roy
2. Open free improvisation jam

Citywide Jazz Series

1. Corey Wilkes Trio with Justin Dillard, Jeremiah Collier
2. Whisker : Ben Billington and Andrew Scott Young, with Lia Kohl

Night of Modular Synthesis XII

1. Andy Ortmann
2. Solid Hands : J Soliday, Nicole Alonso
3. Bakantez
4. Kim Nucci
5. Plutonian Research Society : Kyle Werle, Tommy Carroll
6. Onur Żłobnicki

Citywide Jazz Series

1. The Chicago Experiment : Connor Bernhard, Zack Marks, Andrew "Larry" Lawrence, with special guests Mark Hartsuch, Neil Carson

Chicago Jazz Festival

1. Extraordinary Popular Delusions
2. The Young Masters directed by Ernest Dawkins
3. The Toyoaki Ensemble
4. What is This Thing Called Jazz?

Chicago Jazz Festival

1. Shy Shēks
2. Tom McCarthy Quartet
3. Larry Brown Jr Quartet
4. Julius Tucker Quartet

Chicago Jazz Festival

1. 2 Brown Sisters : Maggie and Africa Brown
2. Joel Ross Good Vibes
3. Dee Dee Bridgewater & Bill Charlap Duo

Cuatro Mujeres : "Sweet Thing"

1. Damon Locks, Ben LaMar Gay, Keyierra Collins, Aaliyah Christina, Dej, Samus Starbody

Sound & Gravity

1. 6:30PM Leroy the Poet
2. 8:15PM Dos Santos

Sound & Gravity

1. 7:00PM Mick Turner
2. 8:30PM Heart Trio : William Parker, Hamid Drake, Cooper Moore

Sound & Gravity

1. 7:00PM Kassa Overall
2. 8:45PM Uhlmann, Johnson, Wilkes
3. 10:30PM Alabaster DePlume

1. D Jean-Baptiste
2. J Soliday
3. Naturalblkinvention

Chicago Jazz Festival

1. Stephen Parisi with Kabir Dalawari
2. Lily Finnegan's Heat On
3. Maison Electronique
4. Scott Burns Quintet

Chicago Jazz Festival

1. Chris Greene Quartet
2. Raíces Latin Jazz Quintet
3. Constantine Alexander Firetet
4. Marlene Rosenberg Quintet with Dakarai Barclay, Eli Sullivan, Lara Driscoll, Kyle Swan

Chicago Jazz Festival

1. The Jo Ann Daugherty Trio with special guest, Henry Johnson
2. The Luciano Antonio Octet
3. Dr Emma Dayhuff Innovations & Lineage: The Chicago Project featuring Dee Alexander, Corey Wilkes, Isaiah Collier, Michael King, and Jonathan Pinson
4. Robert Glasper

Sound & Gravity

1. 6:30PM Sam Wilkes
2. 8:15PM Resavoir

Sound & Gravity

1. 6:30PM Chris Ryan Williams Vibration Trio
2. 8:15PM Patrick Shiroishi
3. 10:00PM Kalia Vandever

Sound & Gravity

1. 7:00PM Eliana Glass
2. 8:45PM Capatosta : Tim Berne, Tom Rainey, Gregg Belisle-Chi
3. 10:30PM Ana Roxanne

Sound & Gravity

1. 7:00PM Uniflora
2. 8:45PM A Hawk and a Handsaw
3. 10:30PM Jim White Trio with Guy Picciotto, Colleen Burke

Sound & Gravity

1. 7:00PM Water Damage
2. 8:45PM Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas
3. 10:30PM Hailu Mergia

Sound & Gravity

1. 7:00PM Official Claire
2. 8:45PM Jessica Risker
3. 10:30PM Walt McClements

1. Andrew Sudhibhasilp Trio with Ben Dillinger, Tim Daisy

Chicago Jazz Festival

1. MYAC Jazz Combo
2. Whitney Young High School Laflin Collective
3. New Trier High School Jazz Ensemble 1
4. Dekalb High School Jazz Ensemble
5. Kenwood Academy High School Jazz Band

Chicago Jazz Festival

1. Josh Berman & Jason Stein Quartet
2. Kevin King Regime
3. Joan Collaso
4. Miguel de la Cerna Trio

Chicago Jazz Festival

1. Gabriel Wade Quintet
2. Ella Grace Sextet
3. John Hanrahan Quartet (Coltrane Celebration)
4. Frank Russell Quintet

Tangible Sound Presents

1. Honoring Sun Ra: Vincent Chancey
2. Avreeayl Ra
3. Honoring Louis Armstrong: Sam Thousand

1. Screening — Films from the Bob Koester Collection

Chicago Jazz Festival

1. Prodigio Claudio
2. Patricia Brennan Septet
3. Paul Marinaro's “Mood Ellington”
4. M.E.B. (Miles Electric Band) celebrating The Miles Davis Centennial

Sound & Gravity

1. 6:00PM Katinka Kleijn & Kari Watson
2. 7:30PM Ami Dang
3. 9:00PM Keith Fullerton Whitman

Sound & Gravity

1. 6:30PM Russ Johnson
2. 8:15PM Jon Irabagon & Dan Oestreicher
3. 10:00PM Adam O'Farrill's Elephant

Sound & Gravity

1. 7:00PM TV Buddha
2. 8:45PM Setting
3. 10:30PM My New Band Believe

Sound & Gravity

1. 7:00PM Son Lux
2. 8:45PM The American Analog Set

Sound & Gravity

1. 7:00PM Lee Ranaldo & Leah Singer, Contre Jour
2. 8:45PM Josh Johnson
3. 10:30PM Marc Ribot

Sound & Gravity

1. 7:00PM Microplastique
2. 8:45PM Tomeka Reid Quartet
3. 10:30PM Gregory Uhlmann Extra Stars

Chicago Jazz Festival

1. Victoria Aliz Quintet
2. Blue Aura
3. Miriam Goroff-Behel Quintet
4. Michael Davenport Quartet
5. Carmani Edwards

Chicago Jazz Festival

1. M.A.D.D. Rhythms
2. John Wojciechowski Quartet
3. Chuck Webb and Guru Tonic
4. Jeremiah Hunt

Chicago Jazz Festival

1. Arman Sangalang Quartet with special guest Jon Irabagon
2. Alex Beltran (Sunday Soul)
3. Michele Thomas Septet
4. Ricardo Jiménez Quintet

LUNCH-TIME

1. Ro(b)//ert Lundberg, Tyler Wagner

Chicago Jazz Festival

1. Bruce Henry Quintet
2. Isaiah Collier: "COLLIER plays COLTRANE"
3. Bethany Pickens Soulful Coalition
4. Paquito D’Rivera

Sound & Gravity

1. 6:00PM Advance Base
2. 7:30PM Jana Horn
3. 9:00PM Dagmar Zuniga

Sound & Gravity

1. 6:30PM Tomas Fujiwara : 7 Poets Trio
2. 8:15PM Mary Halvorson & Sylvie Courvoisier
3. 10:00PM Joe McPhee, Ken Vandermark & Chris Corsano

Sound & Gravity

1. 7:00PM David Moore
2. 8:45PM Otto Benson
3. 10:30PM Joan Shelley

Sound & Gravity

1. 7:00PM Twin Talk
2. 8:45PM Black Duck
3. 10:30PM Sir Richard Bishop

Sound & Gravity

1. 7:00PM Eli Winter Ensemble
2. 8:45PM Tyondai Braxton
3. 10:30PM Yellow Swans

Sound & Gravity

1. 7:00PM Lucrecia Dalt
2. 8:45PM Grouper

Side Yard Sounds

1. Sam Robinson Quintet

Cuatro Mujeres : "Peaches"

1. Fred Jackson Jr, Naydja Bruton, Ugochi Nwaogwugwu, Reese Carr, Dr Adam Zanolini, Ayesha Jaco, Diana Muhammad, Djuwanna Frazier, Contessa Green, Jessica Morrissette, Jeneba Koroma, Serenity Mahon, Raven Lewis, Brassel Jackson, Angel Bat Dawid, Camila Isabel, Ivory Stephenson

1. Jacob Neiderman & The 929 Collective, with Kyle Johnson-Evers, Dave Sean, Rahsaan Nance, Ellie Rui
2. Ben Link, Ben Zucker, Jeff Wheaton, Andy Danstrom

1. Radio Outernational
2. Dark Canyon

1. Simone Baron, Caroline Jesalva, Emily Rach Beisel, Krissy Bergmark

The Visible Hand

1. Alex Wing, Naydja Bruton, Preyas Roy
2. Open free improvisation jam

Elastro

1. Hunter Brown
2. chelliah
3. Stereotypewriters

a [time] patterned

1. Lara Somogyi

Plantasia Pre-Party

1. James K
2. Dorothy Carlos
3. gs70

Relax Attack Jazz Series

1. Ben Branda Quartet

Plantasia

1. Helado Negro, Reyna Tropical
2. James K
3. Gigi Masin
4. Elori Saxl, Henry Solomon
5. Blue Earth Sound
6. Jeremiah Chiu
7. Age of Peace
8. Torn Light DJ

Heavy Air Happy Hour

1. Zander Raymond, Tyler Wagner, Caroline Jesalva

Improvised Music Series

1. Gregor Samsa, Karl Rossmann
2. Tyler Damon, Jacob Fawcett, Andrew Scott Young
3. Damon, Fawcett, Rossmann, Samsa, Young

Tangible Sound Presents

1. Ben LaMar Gay

Plantasia

1. Makaya McCraven
2. Green-House
3. Precious Renee Tucker
4. Chee Shimizu
5. Okonski
6. Flore Laurentienne
7. Gwenifer Raymond
8. Acopia

Ex Ibex "Commercial Music" Album release

1. Album listening
2. Performance by Ex Ibex : Jeff Chan, Greg Diethrich, Maria Elena Hernandez, David Keller, Dheeru Pennepalli

1. Bullshit Dozer : Nick Zoulek, Tim Russell, Carl Johnson - EP Release

CLEAT Series

1. Steve Reidell, Tim Kinsella
2. Alexander Panos
3. Squonk : Hedra Rowan, Nicole Alonso

1. Container
2. easygoingtech
3. Anti-Soul Organization
4. 11111111111

The Outreach Program

1. Naydja Bruton's Rhythm Ninjas
2. udochukwu anidobu
3. Amari Amai

1. Amos Egleston, Raul Cotaquispe

1. Janna Lee, Chad Clark, Weasel Walter
2. People In Trouble
3. Emily Beisel, Labratio, Sam Robinson, Jeff Goulet
4. Sandpusher

Night of Electronic Sounds

1. Senders
2. Davison / Mahlmeister
3. Michael Perkins

Eardrum Series

1. Ben LaMar Gay with special guest

1. Caroline Jesalva, Ben MacDonald, Tyler Wagner, Scott Dean Taylor

1. Emily Beisel, Dalia Chin — music by Tania Rubio, Pablo Santiago Chin, Gabriel Bolaños

1. Maria Chávez, Shahzad Ismaily, Greg Saunier

1. Dave Rempis, Gerrit Hatcher, Lee Johnson, Tyler Wagner, Chris Corsano

Book release of Hamza Walker's "The Renaissance Society Years"

1. Conversation, readings, performances : Hamza Walker, Matthew Goulish, Sharon Udoh, Anna Martine Whitehead, Jason Roebke, Ken Vandermark

1. Extraordinary Popular Delusions

1. Lumina Piano Duo : Hyejin Cho, Jun-Hee Han

Relax Attack Jazz Series

1. Tromblau&Friends

Tangible Music : Diffusion Exercise

1. May Klug, Caroline Jesalva, AD Fox

The Visible Hand

1. Alex Wing, Naydja Bruton, Preyas Roy
2. Open free improvisation jam

Relax Attack Jazz Series

1. Kehsin Xu

27th Annnual Englewood Jazz Festival

1. Julius Tucker Trio
2. Live the Spirit Residency Expanded Ensemble featuring Dee Alexander

Improvised Music Series

1. Stefan González, Lily Glick Finnegan, Andrew Scott Young Trio
2. Typhoon Matisse : Michael Zerang, Tim Kinsella

27th Annnual Englewood Jazz Festival

1. Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Redux
2. Jeremiah Hunt Quartet

Third Friday Series

1. Community Music
2. Mabel Kwan, Ayako Kato

Night School

1. Bloofer Girl Puppets
2. Erica Miller
3. Jason Roebke
4. Bonnie Han Jones

27th Annnual Englewood Jazz Festival

1. The Young Masters, under the direction of Ernest Dawkins
2. Dakarai Barclay Quartet
3. Ryan Bills & Ben Crino Quartet
4. Spirit of Jazz Awards
5. The 2 Brown Sisters — Maggie & Africa Brown
6. New Continuum Ensemble led by Marquis Hill, featuring Braxton Cook

Side Yard Sounds

1. Spectralina : Selina Trepp, Dan Bitney

Homage to Anonymous Ancient Fiddlers

1. Charlene Kluegel, Sarah Plum — music by Ben Zucker, Jessie Montgomery, Mari Takano, Sidney Boquiren, Texu Kim, Laszlo Weiner

1. Matt Gold, Dustin Laurenzi

Pleiades Series

1. "Flagellent Songs" Film screening
2. Gabi Vanek, Tina Lefauve, iph
3. Pleiades free improv jam

1. One Time Out : Mark Feldman, Andrew Sudhibhasilp, Tommaso Moretti

Frequency Series Presents

1. Formosa Quartet : David Bernat, Jasmine Lin, Matthew Cohen, Deborah Pae

1. BananaAcid : Aaron Kaufman-Levine, Caroline Jesalva, Garrett Frees, Erez Dessel, Tyler Wagner
2. Three Grebes : Beth McDonald, Franki Hand, Isaac Turner

In the Balance of Light

1. Irene Hsiao, olula negre, Maya Lin

1. Powers/Rolin Duo
2. Chris Coleslaw
3. ragenap+dathon

In the Balance of Light

1. Irene Hsiao, olula negre, Maya Lin

Relax Attack Jazz Series

1. Lizzi Trumbore Quartet

The Visible Hand

1. Alex Wing, Naydja Bruton, Preyas Roy
2. Open free improvisation jam

Splice Series

1. Dan Clucas, Josh Berman, Bill Harris, Jason Roebke, Peter Maunu

1. Grażyna Auguścik Chicago Quintet

1. EYE
2. RXM Reality
3. William Covert, Bruce Lamont

Relax Attack Jazz Series

1. Solar Sails

AMPLIFY! Festival, Concert #1

1. The Reduction Quartet from The MIYUMI Project : Tatsu Aoki, Edward Wilkerson Jr, Jamie Kempkers, Kioto Aoki
2. Craig Parker, Liliya Ugay, "Prayer"
3. Cynthia Lucia: Reena Esmail, Selections from The Crystal Preludes
4. The SamaSama Project: "The Great Filipino Songbook"

Improvised Music Series

1. TROMPE : Taylor Ho Bynum, Jeff Song, Daniel Lin, with special guests Michael Zerang, Jeb Bishop
2. Tyler Tadlock, Jeb Bishop, Christopher Riggs

1. Glenn Jones with Liam Grant, Katie Ernst

Ragamala: A Celebration of Indian Classical Music

1. University of Chicago's South Asian Music Ensemble : Minu Pasupathi, Shruti Kannan, Tomal Hossain, Sonny Patel, Pramantha Tagore, James Sudd, Ronnie Malley, Lucia Thomas, Harsha Bharati, Midhhun Ajikumar
2. Dr Ratish Tagde, Lokesh Anand, Hindole Majumdar
3. Maalavika Sundar, Vijay Muralidharan, Sai Ragavan, Payannur Govinda Prasad
4. Lyon Leifer, Nitin Mitta
5. L Shankar, Selvaganesh Vinayakram, Amit Kavthekar, Swaminathan Selvaganesh
6. Radhika Samson, Tejas Tope
7. Ramanan Venkatraman, Tejas Tope
8. Saraswathi Ranganathan, Swaminathan Selvaganesh, Sai Ragavan, Payannur Govinda Prasad
9. Samarth Nagarkar, Praneet Marathe, Tejas Tope

Side Yard Sounds

1. Tommaso Moretti/Elijah McLaughlin Duo, featuring Mai Sugimoto

1. Sun Ra Arkestra

AMPLIFY! Festival, Concert #2

1. Nick Hwang, "You Are the Product"
2. Craig Parker, Young Jo Lee: "Sori"
3. Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer with Chao Tian, "From CHINA To Appalachia"
4. Micah Huang & Michele Cheng, Free Improvisation
5. Joyce Kwon, "Folk Music for Folks of the Diaspora"

Lang/Rainwater Project

1. William Lang, Anne Rainwater — music by John Berners, Alex Temple, Christina George, Negin Zomorodi, Richard Belcastro, Quinn Mason

1. Sun Ra Arkestra

1. Croz Boyce
2. BCMC

The 20th Annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival

1. 12:30PM-1:00PM Pickens Stage Naming Ceremony
2. 2:30PM-3:30PM Bethany Pickens Soulful Coalition
3. 4:45PM-5:45PM It's All About OBJ: Dee Alexander and Bruce Henry Celebrate the Music of Oscar Brown Jr.
4. 7:00PM-8:15PM Alfredo Rodriguez Quintet featuring Pedrito Martinez

The 20th Annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival

1. 1:00PM-1:45PM Kris Davis Trio
2. 2:15PM-3:00PM Kris Davis Trio
3. 5:00PM-6:00PM Skylar Tang Quartet
4. 8:00PM-8:45PM Amir ElSaffar New Quartet
5. 9:00PM-9:45PM Amir ElSaffar New Quartet

The 20th Annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival

1. 1:00PM-2:00PM Frank Russell Quintet
2. 3:00PM-4:00PM Wanees Zarour and East Loop

The 20th Annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival

1. 1:00PM-2:00PM Listening Session: Howard Reich and "The Majesty of Chicago Jazz"
2. 2:30PM-3:30PM Listening Session: Two Brown Sisters: Maggie & Africa Brown "Heard Him Say, It Sounded So Good"
3. 4:30PM-5:30PM Listening Session: John Corbett, Ancient to the Future: Notes on Archives & Improvised Music
4. 7:00PM-8:00PM Listening Session: Big Chief Donald Harrison on the Black Masking Indian Tradition

The 20th Annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival

1. 1:30PM-2:30PM Orbert Davis Sextet
2. 3:30PM-4:45PM Kyle Swan Trio featuring Joel Ross
3. 5:45PM-7:00PM Brandon Woody's Upendo
4. 8:15PM-9:30PM HPJF 20th Anniversary Band: Hill/McCraven/Paul/Ross

The 20th Annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival

1. 2:00PM-3:00PM PlainsPeak: Jon Irabagon/Russ Johnson/Clark Sommers/Dana Hall
2. 4:00PM-5:00PM Open or Close: Bradfield/Goldberg/Hall/Melford

The 20th Annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival

1. 2:00PM-3:00PM Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth SWAY
2. 4:00PM-5:00PM Ben LaMar Gay: Yowzers!

The 20th Annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival

1. 2:15PM-2:45PM Joshua Abrams & Sharon Udoh: Wonder, Wonder

The 20th Annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival

1. 3:00PM-4:00PM Sarah Clausen and Caroline Jesalva
2. 5:00PM-6:00PM Rob Mazurek Prismatic Trio

The 20th Annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival

1. 3:00PM-4:00PM Tomeka Reid: In Tribute to Ellington
2. 5:15PM-6:15PM Greg Ward Octet "Held Together"
3. 7:30PM-8:30PM Emmet Cohen Presents: Miles and Coltrane at 100

The 20th Annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival

1. 4:00PM-5:00PM ToCa! Live Trio
2. 6:00PM-7:00PM Michael Davenport Quartet

1. Warp Duo : Qiujiang Levi Lu, Scott Congyu Li

AMPLIFY! Festival, Closing Concert

1. ghOstMiSt : Putu Tangkas Adi Hiranmayena, Dewa Ayu Eka Putri
2. Naomi Niskala, An-Lin Bardin — music by Michi Wiancko
3. Koeun Grace Lee — music by Texu Kim
4. Juan Flores, gordon fung, Peixuan Ouyang, Kyle Price, Sharkey Zalek

1. BASIC : Chris Forsyth, Mikel Patrick Avery, Douglas McCombs
2. Ibises : Dan Bitney, Nick Macri, Steve Marquette
3. Luca Cimarusti

The 20th Annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival

1. 10:00PM-11:00PM Joshua Redman (Solo)

The 20th Annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival

1. 1:00PM-2:00PM The Brown Sisters' Jazz Cafe
2. 3:00PM-4:00PM Miguel de la Cerna Quartet
3. 5:00PM-6:00PM M.A.D.D. Vibes: Thaddeus Tukes Sextet + Members of M.A.D.D. Rhythms

1. Ben MacDonald, Tyler Wagner, Scott Dean Taylor, with guest Lee Rothenberg

The 20th Annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival

1. 2:00PM-3:00PM Ari Brown Quintet
2. 4:00PM-5:00PM Corey Wilkes Sextet
3. 6:00PM-7:00PM Big Chief Donald Harrison Quartet

1. Amy Wurtz, Marianne Parker, Alex Reyes, Sarah Loisch, Kuang-Hao Huang, Marissa Kerbel — "Cyclature" Album release

1. Traysh
2. Snek Trio
3. Larvavision
4. Butt Mommy

1. Drew Wesley
2. Almost Music : Evan Lipson, Jonah Gelbart, Jack Wright, Carol Genetti, Bill Harris

Frequency Series Presents

1. Ensemble Dal Niente : Emma Hospelhorn, Katherine Jimoh, Matt Oliphant, Caitlin Edwards, Ammie Brod, Juan Horie, Ben Melsky, Jon Hannau, Michael Lewanski — music by Luis Fernando Rizo Salom, Carlos Bandera, Sofia Jen Ouyang, Leilehua Lanzilotti, Bahar Royaee, Bernard Rands

1. Jim Baker Solo
2. Jason Roebke Quartet with Edward Wilkerson Jr, Mabel Kwan, Marcus Evans

Diaspora Duos

1. C Mikhail, Caroline Jesalva, Chad Kouri, Izaki Metropoulos

1. múm
2. Paige Alice Naylor

1. Almost Music : Jack Wright, Evan Lipson, Jonah Gilbart
2. Rin Peisert, Jason Stein
3. Prairiegod : Nick Meryhew, Jeff Kimmel

1. Horse Lords
2. Mute Duo
3. Bonnie Han Jones, Allen Moore

1. múm
2. Mukqs

Relax Attack Jazz Series

1. Olynciw/Sutton/Bouwsma Trio

Sonare and Celare

1. JACK Quartet — music by Cenk Ergün, Keir GoGwilt, Austin Wulliman, Juri Seo

The Visible Hand

1. Alex Wing, Naydja Bruton, Preyas Roy
2. Open free improvisation jam

1. Emily Beisel, Caroline Jesalva, Sam Wagster, Michael Zerang

Relax Attack Jazz Series

1. Sofia Koulouvaris Quartet