Asian Improv aRts Midwest, the region's leading presenter of the Asian American cultural arts, is proud to present the 17th season of the critically acclaimed Chicago Asian American Jazz Festival. The festival highlights the diversity of musicians that explore the Asian American experience though music, combining influences that include jazz, blues, rock, hip hop, improv/new music, and traditional Asian musical forms and instrumentation. AIRMW celebrates and documents the historic contribution Asian American musicians and their collaborators have made to the Chicago music scene. In this spirit, this year’s festival presents a series of concerts to be recorded live and will be made available on AIRMW’s digital archive of Asian American music.
Friday, November 30, 2012
7pm | FREE
MANA CONTEMPORARY
2233 South Throop St., 6F
Chicago IL 60608
Tatsu Aoki’s Experimental Unit with an exhibition of paintings by Hiromi Tanaka
Tatsu Aoki's Experimental Unit has been performing since April for a variety of film projects and visual installations. For this year's festival, the unit will present music in conjunction with unique painting works by internationally aclaimed artist, Hiromi Tanaka.
Tatsu Aoki - bass
Jamie Kempers - cello
Mwata Bowden - winds
Douglas Ewart - winds
Kioto Aoki -taiko
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| TATSU AOKI www.tatsuaoki.com |
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| JEFF CHAN www.jeffchanmusic.com |
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| YOKO NOGE www.yokonoge.com/ |
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| BRADLEY PARKER SPARROW www.chicagosound.com/ |
Friday, December 7, 2012
7pm | FREE
JAPANESE AMERICAN SERVICE COMMITTEE
4427 N. Clark St.
Chicago, IL 60640
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Fusion Wonderland of Chicago Blues, Jazz and Japanese Music
What does Japanese Minyo (folk music) have in common with Chicago Blues? Both musical forms are deeply rooted in people's souls and grew from their everyday life experience. Some songs are about hard labor, some are about crying for lost love, some are about paying the rent. You will be surprised to hear music from these two very different cultures meld together to create a new cross-border root music.
Yoko Noge – voice/piano
Jimmy Ellis - saxophone
Jimmy Burns - guitar
Tatsu Aoki - shamisen/bass
Bugs Cochran - drums
Jamie Kempker - cello
and more!
Saturday, december 8, 2012
9pm | $12 - $2 discount for Jazz Institute of Chicago members and students w/ ID
ELASTIC ARTS
2830 N. Milwaukee Ave., 2nd Floor
Chicago, IL 60618
Set 1
Bradley Parker Sparrow – piano
Set 2
Jeff Chan’s Cultural Arts Quartet
Led by Chicago saxophonist/composer, Jeff Chan, brings together some of the leading figures of the internationally recognized and renowned Chicago music scene: saxophonist Ed Wilkerson Jr., bassist Tatsu Aoki and drummer Avreeayl Ra. A dynamic and exciting ensemble, the Quartet draws from a wide-ranging sonic palette with influences that include straight-ahead and avant garde jazz, modern composition and traditional music from around the world. Dedicated to the performance of Chan’s original compositions, traditional pieces and improvisation, each member of the band is a critically-acclaimed artist in his own right and contributes his distinctive creative perspective to establish a cohesive group sound.
Jeff Chan – winds
Edward Wilkerson Jr. – winds
Tatsu Aoki – bass
Avreeayl Ra – drums
If you would like to find out more about the 16th Anniversary Chicago
Asian American Jazz Festival, AIRMW, share an idea or make a
donation, here is how to contact us:
Asian Improv aRts Midwest
c/o JASC
4427 N. Clark Street
Chicago, IL 60640
www.aajazz.org
www.taikolegacy.com
www.airmw.org
infoairmw@airmw.org
T: (708) 386 9349
F: (708) 575 1869
The 17th Annual Chicago Asian American Jazz Festival is a program of Asian Improv aRts Midwest and is supported in part by the Illinois Arts Council, the MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, the Alphawood Foundation and The Joyce Foundation.