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Chicago Asian American Jazz Festival
November 10th & 11th | Elastic Arts | 8:30PM
3429 W Diversey Ave #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Celebrate the 28th year of the annual Chicago Asian American Jazz Festival (CAAJF) presented by AIRMW!
Day One features solo sets by Chicago-based Takashi Shallow and Pittsburgh-based Devon Osamu Tipp
Takashi Shallow is a socially specific artist whose experiments complicate notions of medium. His ongoing projects include operating the label Gesamt, organizing Percent–a collective of mixed race artists–and independently publishing Insider Art, a series of critiques. Dazed Digital includes Shallow in the article 10 of the best Chicago artists right now, and he has received fellowships and residencies at institutions like the Arts Club of Chicago and the Cliff Dwellers. He shows work at spaces like Links Hall and Elastic Arts and is a lecturer at the University of Chicago where he teaches art, music, and fashion.
Devon Osamu Tipp shakuhachi player, composer, and visual artist whose research focuses on the intersection between traditional Japanese music, contemporary musical praxis, microtonality, and noise music.
Day Two features a special album release live show of Hitomi Oba's 'Water Stem'
Hailed by the LA Times as a “powerfully inventive” and “remarkably versatile L.A. musician with a penchant for crossing all over the musical place,” saxophonist and composer Hitomi Oba’s work emphasizes the integration of improvisation with pre-composed music. She has written for and performed in various jazz and classical new music settings, including a commission by the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella series and a multi-genre cantata with her new music collective, L.A. Signal Lab. Her second jazz album, “Negai,” released under Japanese label M&I and distributor Pony Canyon, received a prestigious “Swing
Journal 42nd Annual Jazz Disc Award.”
Tickets are $20 at the door
More Information at https://aajazz.org/
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