Feb 15, 2022 1:17 PM
Finding Artifacts
Back in January 2021, the world was in deep lockdown and the jazz trio Artifacts performed a concert to a nearly empty…
Artifacts, from left: Nicole Mitchell, Mike Reed and Tomeka Reid, at Estrada Poznanska in Poland.
Feb 15, 2022 1:17 PM
Back in January 2021, the world was in deep lockdown and the jazz trio Artifacts performed a concert to a nearly empty…
Dee Dee Bridgewater
Apr 6, 2021 11:37 AM
What’s streaming this week? Try Chris Potter and Craig Taborn, Alligator Records at 50, Bob James and Paul Howard,…
Multi-instrumentalist Jon Batiste is facilitating a series of music-forward protests through his WE ARE organization.
Oct 19, 2020 10:30 AM
Wrapped in brick and converted from its previous life as an industrial space, the Constellation venue’s two separate…
Drummer Jeremy Cunningham enlisted Jeff Parker, Jaimie Branch, Makaya McCraven and others to play on his new album.
Apr 21, 2020 11:31 AM
About 12 years ago, drummer Jeremy Cunningham had plenty of reasons to feel that his life was going great. He was…
Improvising cellist Tomeka Reid’s most recent recording is The Mouser (Relative Pitch), a collaboration with drummer Filippo Monico.
Apr 1, 2019 5:17 PM
Cellist, improviser and composer Tomeka Reid is one busy musician: leading her own quartet, performing in multiple…
Artifacts — Nicole Mitchell (left) Tomeka Reid and Mike Reed — perform at Edgefest in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Oct 26, 2018 11:35 AM
“Chicago—Out Kind of Town” was the theme for college town Ann Arbor, Michigan’s 22nd annual Edgefest, which ran…
Artifacts—a trio comprising cellist Tomeka Reid, flutist Nicole Mitchell and percussionist Mike Reed—recently performed at the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina.
Jun 18, 2018 4:09 PM
The trio Artifacts would have seemed a worthy one-off a few years ago. Organized in 2015 by cellist Tomeka Reid to play…
Amir ElSaffar’s most recent recording is Not Two, with his 17-piece Rivers of Sound Orchestra.
Feb 6, 2018 2:40 PM
When Amir ElSaffar was growing up in River Forest and Oak Park, Illinois, his father would sneak him into blues clubs;…
Lewis Achenbach paints on an acrylic sheet as musicians, including flutist Dalia Chin (left), perform at Constellation in Chicago on Dec. 13.
Dec 20, 2017 5:53 PM
The 13th installment of the Jazz Occurrence series—an ongoing run of Chicago-area gatherings that pair visual art…
