(8pm – midnight) CHICAGO CELLAR BOYS Tuesday June 9 8:00pm - 12:00am $10 cover Chicago Cellar Boys featuring: Andy Schumm – cornet, clarinet, saxophone John Otto – clarinet, saxophone Natalie Scharf – clarinet, saxophone Jim Barrett – banjo, guitar Paul Asaro – piano, vocals Dan Anderson – tuba, bass
Fulton Street Collective presents a performance with JESSE LEAR TRIO and MARIO DUENAS TRIO on Wednesday, June 10th at 7:30pm. The evening will feature live painting from visual artist TBA. 7:30 MARIO DUEÑAS ELECTRIC TRIO Mario Dueñas – Guitar Scott Mertens – Keyboard Jonny Gifford – Drums 8:45 JESSE LEAR TRIO Jesse Lear – Bass Lara Driscoll – Piano Tommy Sagins – Drums 7pm Doors 7:30pm Show $15 FREE PARKING
Back to All Events Relax Attack Jazz Series: Chicago Experiment Organ Trio Wednesday, June 10, 2026 9:00 PM 10:00 PM Google Calendar ICS The Chicago Experiment was formed in 2025 out of Connor Bernhard's desire to perform more on guitar and realize the dream he had since he was in high school of having an organ powered band. The trio features himself on guitar, trumpet, arrangements, and compositions along with the inimitable Zack Marks on drums and Andrew "Larry" Lawrence on Hammond B3 organ. The three met nearly a decade prior to play in the band New Nostalgia and have been friends and accomplices in musical crime ever since with that group, Bonzo Squad and many others. These three musicians share a passion for the harmony and intellectual prowess of jazz, but are also captivated by the infectious groove and melodies of vernacular musics in the popular music genre. Together they synthesize those two commonly separated worlds into the funky fire that is The Chicago Experiment. Every Tuesday and Wednesday, we present Chicago’s top jazz artists in a lively atmosphere, full of cocktail-shaking and spirited conversation. Tagged: Wednesday Previous Previous June 10 Test Literary Series (June 2026 Edition) Next Next June 11 Blesstonio presents: Fusion (June 2026 Edition)
Back to All Events Improvised Music Series: Sri Perangur's Enargeia, Clark / Rubin + Dessel / Nguyen Thursday, June 11, 2026 8:30 PM 10:30 PM Google Calendar ICS Sri Perangur Photograph: Alice Bortel @alicegrrltakephoto (from upper left, clockwise) Chad M. Clark, Scott Rubin, Maya Nguyen, Erez Dessel Two improvised-music-and-video sets featuring: Chad M. Clark (guitar) and Scott Rubin (video) , plus Erez Dessel (keys) and Maya Nguyen (video) Sri Perangur (he/they) is a violinist, improviser, and composer trained in the Carnatic (South Indian classical) musical tradition. Following in the footsteps of premodern Indian painters, "Enargeia” seeks to imagine rāgas (melodic frameworks) not only as tastes, scents, and textures, but also as characters, ideas, and symbols. 8:30 pm: Sri Perangur’s Enargeia 9:15 pm: Clark / Rubin 10:00 pm: Dessel / Nguyen $15 / $10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available at the Door About The Artists Sri Perangur (he/they) is a violinist, improviser, and composer trained in the Carnatic (South Indian classical) musical tradition. Nurtured by violin maestros Lalgudi GJR Krishnan and Vittal Ramamurthy, Sri carries forward the elegance and emotional depth of the Lalgudi school of music while blending it with his own explorations of poetry, history, and language. "Enargeia" is a project that celebrates the language of instrumental music. Following in the footsteps of premodern Indian painters, the project seeks to imagine rāgas (melodic frameworks) not only as tastes, scents, and textures, but also as characters, ideas, and symbols. "Enargeia" represents Sri's attempt to test tradition's ability to speak to contemporary senses and sensibilities. Maya Nguyen is a Chicago-based Vietnamese-Russian interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores sound, diasporic making, and lived ambiguity. She maps her own migrations across Hanoi, Moscow, and Chicago by weaving together speech fragments, urban recordings, video, and performance. Erez Dessel is a pianist, composer, and curator living and working in Chicago, Illinois. He holds a BM in jazz piano from the New England Conservatory of Music. Dessel’s work explores the piano as a vehicle for human connection. A primary part of his practice is the history of the instrument as a tool for storytelling and world-building. Scott Rubin is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist, composer, and improvising violist. His work explores the relationships between sound and movement by utilizing analog and digital technology, motion sensors, and live video. Chad M. Clark is a Chicago-based experimental guitarist whose practice expands the instrument into a site of physical inquiry, improvisation, and immersive sound. Attuned to the guitar’s material properties, Clark works with scale as both measure and sensation, moving between finite gestures and seemingly infinite fields of resonance. Tagged: improvised music series Previous Previous June 10 CLEAT Series: BARAS + Jared Kelley 'Irrational Machines' Next Next June 12 CLEAT Series: Duo Riso, SEth Andrew Davis
Henry Johnson - guitar Richard Johnson - piano Chuck Webb - bass Tim Gant - keyboards Charles Rick Heath IV - drums Charles “Rick” Heath IV is a world renowned drummer, educator, producer who has toured and recorded with Ramsey Lewis, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Phillip Bailey of Earth, Wind & Fire, and many others. Charles is currently an adjunct professor at Columbia College and the University of Illinois (Circle Campus). Charles Heath is constantly breaking barriers as a humanitarian and musicians'; leading with first class professionalism and style.
