Coming to Constellation Chicago

Source: Constellation Chicago.

KIMMEL/ALI/HARRIS
Friday, May 7, 2021
8:00 PM 9:30 PM
Vivary is the much-anticipated follow up to Kimmel.Ali.Harris’s well-received 2020 release A Pound Of Salt on Brooklyn’s 577 Records. Kimmel.Ali.Harris celebrates the release of this record at Constellation with this performance.

ARTIFACTS | EARLY AND LATE SHOWS
Saturday, May 8, 2021
8:00 PM 11:00 PM
Cellist Tomeka Reid, flutist Nicole Mitchell, and drummer Mike Reed are torchbearers of Chicago’s innovative jazz scene, as well as the most prominent members and educators of the third generation of The Association for the Advancement of Creative Music (AACM), a historically important Chicago arts organization.

ANGEL BAT DAWID/CHARLES JOSEPH SMITH & MARVIN TATE/JOHANNA BROCK
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
8:00 PM 9:30 PM
Charles Joseph Smith (piano and drums) and Angel Bat Dawid (piano, clarinet, and voice/ spoken word) perform as a duo. Then, Johanna Brock and Marvin Tate perform America the Blue.

BLACK DIAMOND
Friday, May 14, 2021
8:00 PM 9:30 PM
Jazz Journal UK wrote that “Black and Diamond’s augmenting of their in-the-moment work stops short of straightforward overdubbing and has the effect of deepening their spontaneity and the acute degree to which they are a meeting of musical minds.”