Maurice is a Chicago-based ensemble who grew out of a shared interest in composition. The band fuses irregular grooves with jazz harmonies all to channel experimental rock.
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Marbin is a progressive jazz fusion quartet who create cosmic instrumental rock tunes with a metallic edge.
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Kneebody is a virtuosic quartet who craft wild rock tunes with improvised jazz sections, mind-blowing compositions and haunting textures.
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LowDown Brass Band writes instrumental movements with influences from the ska, hip hop and punk world.
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Maurice 'Mobetta' Brown is a masterful trumpet player and MC whose list of collaborators include everyone from Tedeschi Trucks Band to Talib Kweli.
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Lili K. is the voice you hear in your favorite Chicago hip-hop artist’s music (cue Acid Rap and Innanetape), but she has also created an original jazzy, soulful, hip hop sound that is all her own.
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Fareed Haque’s MathGames! blends classical with futuristic; incorporating wheeling progressions with grinding multi-tempos and blinding improvisation.
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