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- Music, Music Feature Jan 10, 2019
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions play free jazz two centuries deep
The members of this underappreciated ensemble bring vast and varied experience to their regular weekly shows—which follow no rules but their own.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 2, 2018
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Swedish trumpeter Emil Strandberg brings lyrical grace to his austere free improvisation
Last year Emil Strandberg added British violinist Philipp Wachsmann to his working trio to make an impressively delicate and economical improvised album.
- Blogs, Bleader May 19, 2017
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Isabelle Duthoit & Franz Hautzinger and local trio ZRL present new strains of free improvisation
French-Austrian duo Isabelle Duthoit & Franz Hautzinger and Chicago trio ZRL highlight this weekend's options for adventurous live music.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 14, 2017
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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.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 25, 2016
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John Corbett guides you into the netherworld of free improvisation
Chicago gallerist and scholar John Corbett demystifies improvisation in a concise new book that he'll read from on Saturday.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 7, 2014
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Dieb13's weightless vinyl
The Viennese turntable improviser makes his Chicago debut tonight.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 17, 2013
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Free music dialogues between drummer Tim Daisy and bass clarinetist Jason Stein
Peira Records unleashes some new music, including a strong improvised duo outing from Tim Daisy and Jason Stein.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 29, 2012
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Notes among silences
To make us listen closer, composer Radu Malfatti gets rid of most of the notes
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 21, 2010
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Katherine Young's Bold Bassoon
Bassoonist and former Chicagoan Katherine Young returns to town for concerts tonight at Elastic and Saturday at Post Family Gallery.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 17, 2009
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The boundless sonic creativity of Okkyung Lee
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 6, 2009
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Peter Evans brings new meaning to the word "virtuosic"
Monster trumpeter Peter Evans plays a free solo set Monday night at Corbett vs. Dempsey.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 11, 2007
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Tri-continental sounds at the Hideout
Fixtures of the improvised-music scenes in Lebanon and Norway touch down at the Hideout.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 23, 2007
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Branching out
Trumpeter Jaimie Branch keeps getting better and better.
- Blogs, Bleader May 30, 2007
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Free synth
The experimental trio Yuganaut finds new uses for the analog synthesizer.
- Blogs, Bleader May 8, 2007
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A Valentine for no one in particular
Cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm sets his Valentine Trio loose.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 30, 2007
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Improvised sounds, far apart
Two radically different horn players descend on Chicago this weekend.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 7, 2007
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Snow storm
Experimental filmmaker and musician Michael Snow comes to Chicago to present a survey of old and new work.