Sidaka
Alejandro Salazar
Best Day Ever Duo
This Thursday’s Improvised Music Series will have a solo set from percussionist Alejandro Salazar, a solo set from Sidaka with his project Resurgence of the Bliss, and a performance from the Best Day Ever Duo.
$15 / $10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available at the Door
Artist Bios
SIDAKA
“Sidaka's resurgence of the bliss experience is a alternative rap album released on February 5th,2024. The production consist of electronic synth builds, piano improvisations, and guitar riffs all over. I will be bringing this style that I used to create the album to a live setting at elastic arts. In attempt to express the same feeling from this album to an improvised musical session for a cinematic moment in time.”-SIDAKA
ALEJANDRO SALAZAR
Alejandro Salazar emphasizes love, peace, and unity to audiences through unique performances, education, and the cultural study of Afro-Cuban and Black-American Music. Chicago’s own rising star, Alejandro Salazar, is deeply rooted in the tradition, yet he likes to explore new ways to help people groove and dance more to his infectious swing feel.
Alejandro has had the pleasure of playing at clubs, venues, and festivals all over Chicago and the world like The Chicago Jazz Festival, Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Jazz a la Villette (Paris), Primavera Sound Barcelona, Munch Museum (Oslo), Bourse de Commerce (Paris), Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, The Jazz Showcase, Andy’s Jazz Club, DuSable Museum, The Green Mill, Constellation, and Dorian's to name a few. During such engagements, Alejandro has shared the stage with master musicians such as Bobby Watson, Jon Faddis, Robert Irving III, Emmet Cohen, Willie Pickens, Angel Bat Dawid, Marques Carroll, Junius Paul, Dennis Carroll, Alexis Lombre, Tito Carrillo, Victor Garcia, Rajiv Halim, Ernest Dawkins, Coco Elysses, Senabella Gill, Anthony Bruno, Ira Sullivan, and many more.
Best Day Ever Duo
Best Day Ever is a duo consisting of too multidisciplinary artists, Tzoe Rivera and Taylor Wren. Every day is a lifetime, a gift to learn, to birth an anew and to create beauty in any given space. Taylor energizes the space using their body and movement to channel the energy of their inner-child, of their ancestors, and of the collective. Tzoe utilizes their relationship with their hand and pigment, as well as space to tell their story of life and death. Dedicated to finding the wonder and joy of a child through play and movement, the two empower one another as well as whoever interacts with their art to be free, in expression, and in spirit. Taylor and Tzoe are also both Libras born on the 1st and 2nd day of October, their partnership written in the stars! 🗝️🐉🌟🌷