Bells, recorders, and watering cans craft a sound environment alongside more conventional instruments (trombone, saxophones, trumpet) on the title track of Roscoe Mitchell’s debut LP, Sound. The first record gathering together an iteration of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), Sound, and especially “Sound,” was crafted, according to Mitchell, “[for] musicians to […]
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Best impromptu spiritual-jazz show to celebrate what turned out not to be the end of the pandemic
When the pandemic shut down live music, Chicago gallery Corbett vs. Dempsey began presenting great online gigs via Experimental Sound Studio’s Quarantine Concerts series. I remember the excitement I felt when the gallery made a last-minute, low-key announcement, mostly to friends and supporters, that the sixth of its Sequesterfest livestreaming events would also be open […]
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Bob Koester leaves a colossal legacy in Chicago jazz and blues
For nearly 70 years, Bob Koester owned the Jazz Record Mart and Delmark Records—and though his businesses could be “crazy town,” they helped nurture thriving communities.
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Catalytic Sound launches a streaming service to support improvising musicians
Catalytic Sound launches a streaming service to support improvising musicians, rapper-producer Rashid Hadee collaborates with the Primeridian, and more
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Chicago’s September jazz festivals cope with COVID
The city is replacing the Chicago Jazz Festival with a slimmed-down online event, while the smaller, nimbler Hyde Park Jazz Festival plans to try pop-up in-person shows.
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Olivia Junell, codirector of Experimental Sound Studio
“Right before the shelter-in-place got announced, we started thinking: OK, how can we help?”
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Kriegmeister Hatestorm of Neckbeard Deathcamp on heavy music as protest
Current musical obsessions of Neckbeard Deathcamp front man Kriegmeister Hatestorm, Haggathorn guitarist Nathan Scripter, and Reader music editor Philip Montoro
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New $50,000 prize in improvised music gives its first awards to Joe McPhee and Susan Alcorn
The Instant Award in Improvised Music, funded by an anonymous donor, recognizes the art form as a practice unto itself.
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David Grubbs reads from a new book that gets inside push and pull of an experimental concert
Former Gastr del Sol guitarist David Grubbs reads from Now That the Audience Is Assembled (and plays short sets) on Friday and Saturday.
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John Corbett’s love letters to record collecting, collected
Music critic, gallerist, and scholar John Corbett publishes the complete run of his Down Beat column Vinyl Freak in a single book.
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Corbett vs. Dempsey reissue another free-jazz classic from the FMP catalog
The searing 1973 trio record King Alcohol collides European aesthetics and the probing free jazz of New York’s peak “new thing” years.
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Karl Wirsum is still the mayor of Hairy Whoville
The seminal Chicago Imagist artist talks about his encounters with Howlin’ Wolf, Maxwell Street memories, and what inspires him to keep drawing and painting.
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Eugene Chadbourne’s paradigm-smashing There’ll Be No Tears Tonight is back in print
Corbett vs. Dempsey’s record label reissues Eugene Chadbourne’s mind-warping 1980 collision of free improv, country music, and bebop.
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Dissecting Sublime Frequencies with the folks behind a recent book on the label
The editors and writers behind Punk Ethnography lead a reading and discussion Saturday afternoon at Corbett vs. Dempsey.
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Noname at the House of Vans opening, Anti-Super Bowl House Party, and more things to do this weekend in Chicago
Funny Grabs Back, the Pilsen Art Expo, and more happenings from February 3-5