A playlist of tracks by artists in order of their appearance at CHICAGO OVERGROUND, a two-night showcase of creative new music from the Windy City, January 11th & 12th at Nublu, 151 Avenue C, New York, New York, as part of the NYC Winter Jazz Fest 2019 Marathon.

Winter Jazzfest 2019 is proud to present CHICAGO OVERGROUND, a two-night showcase of Creative New Music from the Windy City, curated by Scottie McNiece (of International Anthem) and Piotr Orlov (music writer/editor, and producer at Raspberry Jones), as part of the festival’s Marathon weekend. Some established, some emerging and all together — these are a few of the very best artists that Chicago’s creative, improvisational, and new jazz scenes have to offer in 2019, many of them making their New York City debuts. 

Participants include The JuJu Exchange (led by Nico Segal, f.k.a. Donnie Trumpet), Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society, former Noname musical director Akenya, and acclaimed musical polymath Ben LaMar Gay. Also on the bill are drummer Mikel Patrick Avery leading his PLAY project; drummer Jeremy Cunningham premiering music from his forthcoming album, The Weather Up There; pianist/clarinetist and spiritual-jazz soothsayer, Angel Bat Dawid with her group The Brothahood; and RESAVOIR, a new group formed by trumpeter Will Miller (best-known for his work with the indie band Whitney, and numerous hip-hop artists including Chance the Rapper). 

Each evening will close with jam sessions led by beloved, special guest expat-Chicagoans, Jaimie Branch (Friday 1/11) and Marquis Hill (Saturday 1/12). The MC for both evenings will be Ayana Contreras (host of Reclaimed Soul on Vocalo Radio, co-producer of WBEZ flagship program Sound Opinions) and music between sets will be provided by DJ and event producer, King Hippo (of Lumpen Radio, Fresh Roasted: Live Beat-Making & Battle). Doors open at 7pm both nights. For full marathon schedule, visit Winter Jazzfest’s website:

www.winterjazzfest.com

CHICAGO OVERGROUND @ NYC Winter Jazzfest 2019

Settle in for another finely crafted “Today’s” playlist – our favourite sounds recently discovered on SoundCloud. We’ve ten tasteful tunes for you to listen to they come from KiLaMDaPro, The Juju Exchange, Angel Bat Dawid, Akenya, Iku Sakan, Umeko Ando and more. As always we hope you discover some exciting new music. Check out the playlist and make sure to follow us here, Mixcloud and Spotify for more music. Press play and enjoy!   

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Skalpel - Salvadanio

A Featured Track From My Upcoming MIxTape "Sophisticated Ignorance" Enjoy ! 

Quite Like This (Instrumental by Phreezy)

Tied & Tickled Trio - The Long Tomorrow

Simple EP

Salvadanio

over skies EP

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ghost

Astral Progressions is a superb blend of jazz,ballads,  hip hop, funk, meditation, and of course, progressions.

Astral Progressions

Celestial Visions

Official Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ScpnUpCsM4

'Pineapple' (Feat. @moses-boyd & @nerijamusic) taken from Blue Lab Beats' debut album 'Xover'.

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'Pineapple' is an interpolation of the song Yembele by Samba Mapangala.

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Pineapple (Feat. Moses Boyd & NÉRIJA)

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Uplifting summery beat by Ruck P !

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Ruck P - Destination

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Jeremy Cunningham is a drummer, composer, improviser and educator, who’s been an integral part of Chicago's improvisational music scene for nearly a decade. Cunningham's loose, zen drumming style has featured on recordings by the likes of trumpeter Marquis Hill and Nick Mazzarella's Meridian Trio, as well as with his own quartet, which also includes guitarist Jeff Parker, bassist Matt Ulery and alto saxophonist Josh Johnson. More recently, Cunningham has co-founded the Chicago Drum Choir with Mike Reed and Quin Kirchner. On this evening, Jeremy Cunningham will be previewing music from his upcoming album, The Weather Up There, which uses his personal, tragic experience of the loss of his brother to examine gun violence and the acute effect of that violence on other people's lives, applying the lens of memory, response, and collage to the music. Performing The Weather Up There alongside Cunningham will be Jeff Parker (guitar), Dustin Laurenzi (saxophone + electronics), Mike King (piano), Paul Bryan (bass), and special guests.

Jeremy Cunningham - "The Weather Up There"

Joshua Abrams is a veteran jazz bassist, experimentalist, improviser, and, since 2010, the bandleader of Natural Information Society, in which he plays the guimbri, a Gnawan string instrument which is at the heart of the group's hypnotic sound. Natural Information Society features a shifting line-up of musicians who use traditional and electric instruments to build intricate, long-form psychedelic environments, composed and improvised, connecting a wide range of contemporary musics and methodologies, including jazz, minimalism and krautrock. It is music that explores stasis, continuity, repetition and layering. Natural Information Society’s albums are critical favorites, with 2017’s Simultonality hailed by the likes of The Wire, Pitchfork, and Rolling Stone as one of the year’s best. On this evening, Natural Information Society will feature Abrams and Lisa Alvarado (harmonium), Mikel Patrick Avery and Chad Taylor (drums), Jason Stein (bass clarinet), Angelica Sanchez (piano).

Simultonality

Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society - "Maroon Dune"

Ben LaMar Gay is a cornetist, vocalist, composer, and producer from the Southside of Chicago who moves sound, color and space through folkloric filters, to produce strikingly original electro-acoustic pieces. Whether sounding like ambient jazz, sensually theoretical funk or pastoral verse laid out over beats, Ben's music never loses its humanity or its aspiration towards the sublime. He’s musically influenced by a collection of experiences in the Americas (North, Central and South); and his expansive, avant-garde idea of “Americana” is under the spell of a planet brought closer by technology. Ben's 2018 album release, Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun (a top five “Best Albums of 2018” selection by The WIRE) is actually a collection of music compiled from seven albums he made over the last seven years but never made the effort to release - and which are all now being reissued by International Anthem Recording Co. This evening Ben will perform alongside Will Faber (guitar), Matthew Davis (tuba), Tommaso Moretti (drums).

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Ben LaMar Gay - "Lamps"

Mikel Patrick Avery is an interdisciplinary artist, composer, photographer and educator who's been an active part of Chicago’s music community for over a decade. Established as a jazz drummer, Mikel has been recognized for a melodic percussive style that often involves the use of unconventional “non-musical” objects. In recent years, Avery’s become a crucial part of various local ensembles, including Rob Mazurek’s Alternate Moon Cycles, Joshua Abrams’ Natural Information Society and Theaster Gates’s Black Monks of Mississippi. Mike Patrick Avery's PLAY is one of several projects he leads, and the most...playful. PLAY performances draw on the idea of a staged play (think props, objects, staging, dialogue), and engages techniques found in vaudeville and early Hollywood. PLAY also draws on the idea of child’s play, with Avery and his bandmates utilizing the stage as if it were a giant sandbox, moving from instrument to instrument in a seemingly free-willed manner, clouding the idea of what us planned and what is improvised. Tonight, PLAY will consist of Avery and Anthony Bruno (tenor saxophone), Ben LaMar Gay (cornet), John Sutton (bass).

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Mikel Patrick Avery - "...machine"

Angel Bat Dawid is a Black Earth Traditional composer, improviser, clarinetist, pianist, and vinyl addict. She is also a sonic archaeologist gathering and excavating soundz/music from space, the heavens, the ether and beyond. She restores peace, love and healing to the world, using the most powerful tool imaginable: omniversal sound. In 2017, Angel self-released the EP, The Joy of Living; and in 2018, she composed a “cosmic love opera” based on Song of Solomon that was performed at Co-Prosperity Sphere, an experimental arts and cultural center in Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood that is home to International Anthem Recording Co, Lumpen Radio, Public Media Institute, and a handful of other grassroots organizations. This evening, the Brothahood will consist of Xris Espinoza (percussion, saxophone), Adam Zanolini (woodwinds, bass), Isaiah Collier (saxophones, percussion) and N.W. Long (electronics).

Angel Bat Dawid - "What Shall I Tell My Children Who Are Black Dr. Burroughs"

The JuJu Exchange has one foot in jazz, while the other one skips around — by design. The quartet is a musical partnership between trumpeter Nico Segal (aka Donnie Trumpet in his prior project, The Social Experiment, with Chance The Rapper), pianist Julian Reid, drummer Everett Reid and bassist Lane Beckstrom, all childhood friends who came up through Chicago Public School music programs together. The purpose of the JuJu Exchange is to build on past experiences in order to make a genre-bending style of music that looks to the future while dealing with the problems of the present. The group’s 2017 debut album, Exchange, drew on hip-hop, jazz, classical, pop and global music, to bring rhythmically savvy, improvisational sounds to people who may not know they like jazz. "Jazz is about that communication, that exchange between musicians and what everybody is hearing," Segal once said in a 2017 interview. Adding, "We aren't a traditional jazz band at all...we feed off of all types of music."

Jubilee - Single

The Juju Exchange - Jubilee

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Don Philippe - indigo fly

Patric Catani (aka Candie Hank aka Ill Till) remixes the closing track of Umeko Ando's album "Ihunke". @catani

Atuy So Kata

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Umeko Ando - Atuy So Kata (Patric Catani Remix)

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