Made In Chicago: World Class Jazz Presents Toumani Diabate and the Chicago Transilience Ensemble August 12, 2010

Sample the savory sounds of jazz with a distinctively Chicago flavor as this celebrated music series returns for its 6th year. Presented in collaboration with Jazz Institute of Chicago, Made In Chicago: World Class Jazz begins July 29 and grooves through September 2.

Internationally acclaimed Malian kora master Toumani Diabate, continues his collaboration with Chicago’s jazz community in a concert of original and newly commissioned material. Toumani Diabate joins the Chicago Transilience Ensemble led by Jeb Bishop and Joshua Berman with Hamid Drake, Josh Abrams, Jeff Parker, Jason Adasiewicz, Nicole Mitchell and Nate Lepine for an evening of cross-cultural fertilization, improvisation and expanded musical frontiers.

For more information about this artist, visit: http://www.toumani-diabate.com/.

Made In Chicago: World Class Jazz is presented by the Chicago Jazz Partnership.

 

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Official Website: http://www.millenniumpark.org/parkevents/event.aspx?id=1050