A unique free jazz meeting featuring two leading Croatian improvisers, an unconventional double-drum-and-bass trio with Chicago powerhouses, and a quintet convergence that promises to be explosive!
8:30 pm:
Gregor Samsa - soprano sax, keyboards
Karlo Rossmann - double bass
9:15 pm:
Tyler Damon - drums
Jacob Little Cloud Fawcett - drums
Andrew Scott Young - bass
10:00 pm: Damon + Fawcett + Rossmann + Samsa + Young
About The Artists
This is the first-time appearance of this trio featuring Jacob Little Cloud Fawcett & Tyler Damon on drums and Andrew Scott Young on electric bass. The three have appeared together previously in various incarnations around the city and beyond.
Jacob Little Cloud Fawcett (Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Ojibwe) lives and plays drums in Chicago, Illinois. He incorporates elements from his Indigenous culture with jazz to reflect his lived experience.
Tyler Damon (b. 1987, Cincinnati, Ohio) is a drummer, improviser and educator. He currently resides in Chicago, Illinois. In addition to solo work, Tyler’s contemporary outfits include a longtime duo with saxophonist Dave Rempis, as well as a quartet alongside Rempis, Jason Adasiewicz and Joshua Abrams. He is found frequently in duet with tenor saxophonist Gerrit Hatcher, expanded in trio with bassist Andrew Scott Young. Where Were We, a triad completed by Erez Dessel on keys and Beth McDonald on tuba and electronics, was formed in 2023. Another recent Chicago trio, featuring Paul Giallorenzo and Caroline Jesalva, came to fruition in 2025. Tyler is also often seen and heard accompanying guitarist Eli Winter in the company of Sam Wagster on pedal steel.
Bassist Andrew Scott Young has been a stalwart of the Chicago creative music community since 2007 first with his band Tiger Hatchery and DIY venue The Mopery. Performing regularly with his own groups and collaborative projects like Whisker, TRAYSH, Akjai, and reallyloveto, he has also toured and recorded extensively with artists like Ryley Walker and Circuit Des Yeux. In improvised performance he explores the full range of sonic possibilities on both the double bass and the bass guitar. Using both traditional and extended techniques paired with electronics he transports the listener through fascinating realms of sound.
Photos from top to bottom: Gregor Samsa, Karlo Rossmann, Tyler Damon (photo by Ricardo Adame), Andrew Scott Young, Jacob Fawcett (photo by Tim Schmoll)