The critically acclaimed annual Chicago Asian American Jazz Festival (CAAJF) is an essential cornerstone for highlighting and documenting the significant role that Asian Americans and their collaborators have in contributing to the city’s historic and vibrant musical landscape since 1995.
Save the date!
30th ANNIVERSARYof the
CHICAGO ASIAN AMERICAN JAZZ FESTIVAL
November 7-9, 2025
* Full schedule and details TBA *
29th CAAJF – 2024
November 1 & 2
8:30pm @ Elastic Arts
(3429 W Diversey Ave #208)
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Francis Wong Ensemble
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Chien-An Yuan + Naomi Columna
AIRMW presents two acts for the first night of the 29th edition of the Chicago Asian American Jazz Festival. The evening opens with Chien-An Yuan and Naomi Columna, followed by
Francis Wong's ensemble with Chicago musicians.
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2
Joy Yang Trio​
(Joy Yang, Mitchell Maftean & Ori Sergel)
Day two of the 29th Chicago Asian American Jazz Festival (CAAJF) presents the Joy Yang Trio at Elastic Arts to celebrate her newest album "LIVE ON" released through Asian Improv Records
​​​November 4
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7pm @ Green Line Performing Arts Center
(329 East Garfield Boulevard)
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Tatsu Aoki's The MIYUMI Project closes out this year's CAAJF at
Arts + Public Life's First Monday Jazz
The MIYUMI Project is a cross-cultural music journey and one of the first Asian-American/African-American collaborative music projects to come out of the Midwest in the late 90s. This project illuminates the drum traditions of Japanese taiko and jazz in a musical approach that incorporates the drummer languages of each genre. Infusing Japanese-influenced aesthetics of accompaniment within the rhythm section, the group carries this concept of time into, through, and underneath the music as an essential and natural thread.
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