Chicago is usually considered to be the cultural magnet that brings some of the world’s most adventurous musicians to neighboring midwestern cities. But sometimes Chicago is piggybacking off of its neighbors. Every October Ann Arbor, Michigan, becomes a draw for progressive jazz and improvised music when the annual Edgefest occurs at the Kerrytown Concert House—the five-day extravaganza began on Tuesday and winds down tomorrow. We’re getting plenty of runoff, whether it’s the performance by Tomas Fujiwara’s trio that took place this past Wednesday or tomorrow’s concert by Tim Berne’s new quartet Decay. On Monday saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock and drummer Andrew Drury will perform at Experimental Sound Studio as part of the weekly Option series—the latter’s quartet Content Provider, with Laubrock, fellow saxophonist Briggan Krauss, and guitarist Brandon Seabrook, played Edgefest on Thursday.
[audio-1] Today’s playlist:
