Side Yard Sounds presents: Wick-Sugimoto-Corsano

Start: Friday, July 10, 2026 7:00PM
End: Friday, July 10, 2026 9:00PM

Side Yard Sounds presents: Wick-Sugimoto-Corsano Friday, July 10, 2026 7:00 PM 9:00 PM Compound Yellow #244 Lake Street, Oak Park, Il. Tickets here: https://events.ticketleap.com/.../side-yard-sounds... Or at the door $15 All proceeds got to paying musicians and sustaining our musical programming, thank you for your support! BYOB (light refreshments provided) Weather permitting this performance will be outdoors in our side yard, in case of rain or inclement weather we will be inside the studio above the galleries. About the musicians: Jacob Wick (1985, Evanston, IL) is an internationally-acclaimed genre-defying trumpet player, composer and improviser. His work is dedicated to and informed by queer feelings and queer politics.??Wick studied at SUNY Purchase under Jon Faddis (trumpet) and Liz Phillips (sound art). He later pursued a Master of Fine Arts in the Social Practice Workshop of the California College of the Arts, studying with Ted Purves and Kristina Lee Podesva. His compositions and sound installations have been presented at Issue Project Room, Tonic, the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), and the Poesía en Voz Alta Festival in Mexico City. He appears on recordings by a wide variety of artists including claire rousay, Mabe Fratti, Helado Negro, and Federico Sánchez.??He currently directs two groups. The Jacob Wick Quartet performs original jazz compositions that embrace queer time, a nonlinear and sentimental approach to composition and improvisation. The Jacob Wick Ensemble, meanwhile, performs graphic compositions and structured improvisations that reference folk, jazz, and pop songs. Both groups perform regularly in Mexico City, where Wick has lived since 2014. www.jacobwick.info? www.instagram.com/magical_feelism ?Mai Sugimoto is a saxophonist, composer, curator, and active member of Chicago's jazz and creative music scene. Born/Raised, her debut album (Asian Improv Records, 2018), explores this cultural and musical binary, juxtaposing her Japanese upbringing with the American jazz idiom. Her first solo album, monologue (Asian Improv Records, 2021), was reviewed by Brad Rose of Foxy Digitalis, who writes, “Sugimoto’s skill is boundless as she can jump between different ideas while stitching them together with a common material thread. It’s music that demands attention and must be felt to be heard.” Of her latest album, Sunlight Filtering Through Leaves (Asian Improv Records, 2024), Peter Margasak writes that “[the album] conveys that singular joy of good improvised music, when it’s not about ripping solos but group unity. Naturally, I’m advising you all to pay close attention to Sugimoto from here on out.” www.maisugimoto.com ?www.instagram.com/sugifoto? Chris Corsano is a Chicago-based drummer working at the intersections of free jazz, avant-rock, and experimental music since the late '90s. He's been the rim-batterer of choice for some of the greatest contemporary purveyors of "jazz" (Joe McPhee, Paul Flaherty, Zoh Amba) and "rock" (Sir Richard Bishop, Bill Orcutt, Jim O'Rourke), as well as artists beyond categorization (Björk for her Volta album and world tour). Corsano has built an inventive and personal musical language through ecstatic free improvisation, extended percussion techniques, and using circular-breathed reeds and bowed strings to coax new resonances out of drum heads. He's been called a "powerhouse drummer" by Rolling Stone, "one of the world's great drummers" by The Guardian, and "arguably the most riotously energetic and creative drummer in contemporary free jazz" by Wire Magazine. ??www.cor-sano.com? www.instagram.com/chriscorsano Photo credits:Jacob Wick (black & white) by Jackie Vértiz Chris Corsano (w/ hat) by Rachel Orcutt