Jazz Institute Chicago’s Birthday Bash: UNDU – Nicole Mitchell, Tatsu Aoki, and Jon Woods

The Birthday Bash continues! UNDU is a collaborative sonic ritual intended to unravel the present and embrace a common past for a shared, visionary future. Commissioned for the Jazz Institute’s 50th Anniversary, Nicole M. Mitchell, Tatsu Aoki and filmmaker Jonathan Woods-Apuat En Heru celebrate identity and ignite a collision of Asian American and African American cultural lineages. UNDU creates a multi-dimensional experience through live performance by the MIYUMI Project interacting with Nicole Mitchell who appears through the mediums of video and pre-recorded sound. Presented in partnership with Asian Improv Arts Midwest.

Composers: Tatsu Aoki and Nicole Mitchell (music composition, concept), Jonathan Woods (visual composition, concept).

Musicians: Nicole Mitchell (flute, alto flute, piccolo, electronics); The MIYUMI Project: Tatsu Aoki (bass/shamisen), Mwata Bowden (reeds), Edward Wilkerson Jr. (reeds), Jamie Kempkers (cello), Avreeayl Ra (drums), Coco Elysses (conga/percussion), Kioto Aoki (taiko), Kiyomi Negi (taiko), Kembre Daniel (taiko).

Saturday, June 29, 2019 | 2pm
UNDU
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts | Performance Hall
915 E. 60th Street | Chicago, IL

For more information on our Birthday Bash Weekend:
https://jazzinchicago.org/jazz-institute-of-chicagos-birthday-bash

Sponsored by the Epstein Family Foundation and presented in partnership with the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts.