Artifacts - Late show

3111 N. Western Avenue,CHICAGO IL 60618

24 April, 2021

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Artifacts - Late show 18+ 10:00pm // in person This show will be open for a distanced, in-person audience. Please buy a ticket ahead of time to come in person. You can buy a DUO ticket, which admits 2 people to sit together at a table on the floor, or you can buy a SOLO ticket, which admits 1 person to sit distanced from others on the elevated seats. 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. The trio served on the organization's executive board from 2009-2011. Their music both touches upon and advances the organization's motto, Ancient to the Future, and celebrates African-American culture while reaching across genres and integrating new ideas into the legacy of jazz, experimentalism, and composition. “The Artifacts Trio first convened in 2015 in response to the 50th anniversary of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. Flutist, vocalist, and electronicist Nicole Mitchell, cellist Tomeka Reid, and drummer Mike Reed have all held leadership roles in the organization; they also have a history more than a decade long of playing in one another’s bands. Originally the group’s repertoire consisted of tunes composed by AACM members, including Leroy Jenkins, Edward Wilkerson Jr., Anthony Braxton, and Fred Anderson. On the trio’s debut CD, 2015’s Artifacts (482 Music), their rearrangements distill the pieces to their essential virtues, such as the jubilant demeanor and intricate changes of Roscoe Mitchell’s “Jo Jar” and the insistent, spiritual vibe of Amina Claudine Myers’s “Have Mercy on Us.” The AACM’s golden anniversary festivities are long since over, but the Artifacts Trio have continued to play, and they’ve opened up their book to include their own compositions. They’re currently putting the finishing touches on an upcoming album that will include original material as well as a couple more pieces by Roscoe Mitchell and Muhal Richard Abrams.” -Bill Meyer for the Chicago Reader Photo by Liina Raud