Concerts

Julian Priester is the most distinctive solo voice on the trombone in jazz today. Enhancing the colors and textures of his instrument with varied timbre and definitive style, he truly plays music his way. In a career spanning five decades, he’s been part of some of the most groundbreaking and important contemporary music to date. …

Fearless pianist Cristina Valdes performs a challenging program of solo piano works: Olivier Messiaen’s Petites Esquisses D’Oiseaux, Giacinto Scelsi’s Quattro Illustrazioni, Jonathan Harvey’s Le Tombeau de Messiaen, Helmut Lachenmann’s Ein Kinderspiel, Theo Loevendie’s Strides, and Charles Ives’ Waltz Rondo. Committed to both contemporary and standard repertoire, Cristina Valdes is known for presenting innovative concerts with …

Presented by Nonsequitur & Earshot Jazz Festival. Chicago born and bred, Matana Roberts is an alto saxophonist/ composer/performer working in various mediums of improvised sound and performance, and has been active in New York since 2001. A Van Lier and Brecht Forum fellow, as well as a 2008 and 2009 nominee for an Alpert Award …

Presented by Nonsequitur & Earshot Jazz Festival. (photo: Sandy Carson) Eugene Chadbourne is a legendary improvising guitarist/banjo player, as well as a virtuoso on various noisy instruments of his own design and construction. As a major player in the improvised music scene since the 1970s, Chadbourne has worked with a huge range of players including …

Foday Musa Suso is an internationally recognized musician and a Mandingo griot from the West African nation of Gambia. Spread across several West African nations, griots are the oral historians and musicians of the Mandingo people, a living library for the community, providing history, entertainment, and wisdom while playing and singing their songs. The history …