28th Chicago Asian American Jazz Festival - Day 1

Day 1 features solo sets by Chicago-based Takashi Shallow and Pittsburgh-based Devon Osamu Tipp. 

The 28th CAAJF is presented by AIRMW and hosted at Elastic Arts. 

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Takashi Shallow is a socially specific artist whose experiments complicate notions of medium. His ongoing projects include operating the label Gesamt, organizing Percent–a collective of mixed race artists–and independently publishing Insider Art, a series of critiques. Dazed Digital includes Shallow in the article 10 of the best Chicago artists right now, and he has received fellowships and residencies at institutions like the Arts Club of Chicago and the Cliff Dwellers. He shows work at spaces like Links Hall and Elastic Arts and is a lecturer at the University of Chicago where he teaches art, music, and fashion.

Devon Osamu Tipp is a shakuhachi player, composer, and visual artist whose research focuses on the intersection between traditional Japanese music, contemporary musical praxis, microtonality, and noise music.