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This week s featured gig poster advertises this weekend s Chicago Jazz String Summit, two evenings of streaming performances by string players working in jazz, improvisation, and experimental music. It s the seventh year for this celebration of stringed instruments in nonclassical forms, founded by cellist, composer, and longtime Chicagoan Tomeka Reid.
The poster and the summit s logo were created by designer, illustrator, and musician Rei Alvarez, a Puerto Rican native who DJs as Rattan DJ and founded bolero-focused ensemble Miramar. He currently lives in Richmond, Virginia.
Friday and Saturday night s performances are free to watch online via Experimental Sound Studio s Quarantine Concerts series. The summit also includes four workshops for string players earlier on Saturday, hosted on Zoom by California s Mills College, where Reid has been a visiting professor since 2019.
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