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Chicago Jazz Festival
Millennium Park, Jay Pritzker Pavilion
September 2, 2:10-3 pm
The MIYUMI Project Big Band: “Trans-Rooted” featuring JASC Tsukasa Taiko
Tokyo’s loss, Chicago’s gain. Tatsu Aoki left his native Japan in 1977, at the age of 20, to study experimental filmmaking at the Art Institute of Chicago (and he currently teaches film production and history at the school). But along the way, this indefatigable musician and arts organizer has established himself among the city’s most fluent and adventurous jazz bassists.
The prime vehicle for Aoki’s connection with his heritage remains his Miyumi Big Band. Aoki formed this continually evolving ensemble in 2001 to perform the symphonic-length Rooted: Origins Of Now, which premiered at that year’s Chicago Jazz Festival. Five years later, he revisited that composition’s themes of cultural inheritance, alienation, and synthesis in Re:ROOTED, which debuted as part of the “Made In Chicago” series at Millennium Park. Now the Jazz Festival presents the third installment of this series, Trans-Rooted, in its debut performance, featuring saxophonists Mwata Bowden, Jeff Chan, Ed Wilkerson, and Francis Wong; violinists Jonathan Chen and Renee Baker; drummer Dushun Mosley; and taiko drummers Kioto Aoki, Amy Homma, and Noriko Sugiyama, all members of Tsukasa Taiko, the Chicago-based Japanese drumming ensemble.
Dates: Sep 2, 2010
Hours: 2:10-3 pm
Location:Millennium Park - Jay Pritzker Pavilion
N. Michigan Ave. & E. Randolph St.
Chicago, IL 60602
Admission: FREE
The Miyumi Project
miyumiproject.com
32nd Annual Chicago Jazz Festival
Millennium Park - Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Thursday, September 2, 2010
2:10 - 3:00
The MIYUMI Project Big Band: "Trans-Rooted"
featuring JASC Tsukasa Taiko
JASC Tsukasa Taiko Intro I Class
Experience the art of Japanese drumming!
Beginners Welcome!
Instructor: Amy Homma
Saturdays, 11:30am-12:30pm
Sept 18, 25 | Oct 9, 16, 30 | Nov 6, 13, 20
(8 week session + rehearsal, total 9 classes)
Rehearsal date on December 1 and Performance on December 4 at JASC Holiday Delight
For students ages 8 and up. You will learn the basic form, movements, traditional rhythms, and values of taiko art. Must wear loose, comfortable clothes and shoes. Adults must be physically fit. Minimum 8 students.
Registration deadline: September 10, 2010
Why wait? Sign up for Intro 1 class today!
Download registration forms by clicking here.
DETAILS & REGISTRATION FORM
JASC Tsukasa Taiko
JASC Tsukasa Taiko, one of the leading taiko (Japanese drum) ensembles in the Chicago area, was established as a resident arts program of the JASC in 2004.
JASC Tsukasa Taiko's mission is to preserve and pass on the traditional concepts of taiko as a cultural legacy and to utilize these concepts in expanding and evolving the taiko form. Dedicated to strengthening the Chicago Japanese American/Asian American communities and being a leader in the taiko drumming culture of the Midwest, JASC Tsukasa Taiko maintains an international profile by performing around the world throughout the year while remaining an active, positive presence in the metropolitan Chicago area.
In addition to presenting high-quality performance progams, JASC Tsukasa Taiko also offers classes, workshops, lectures, and demonstrations designed to teach people how to play taiko, as well as to advance the understanding of how the cultural arts are a reflection of a community's heritage and legacy. JASC Tsukasa Taiko has appeared at the Asian American Jazz Festival: Poland/Malta International Theatre Festival, the Smithsonian, San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, the Chicago Cultural Center and Millennium Park.
Quarterly taiko class sessions and special workshops are offered throughout the year for students at all levels of experience. It is recommended that children be at least 5 years of age to begin classes.
The Toyoaki Shamisen Project, under the direction of prominent musician Tatsu Aoki, is a branch program of JASC Tsukasa Taiko, and offers instruction in the distinctive Zashiki tradition of shamisen (3-stringed lute) performance. Individual and group lessons in this unique, Tokyo-based style of performance are available.
For more information please visit:
tsukasataiko.com
Tsukasa Kids Rules !!
TOYOAKI SHAMISEN
TOYOAKI SHAMISEN
a division of JASC Tsukasa Taiko
Discover the Japanese traditional lute, SHAMISEN !
Legendary "Ozashiki" shamisen music from Toyoaki family.
Please visit: www.toyoaki.org
JASC: Japanese American Service Committee of Chicago
Celebrating its 60th year of serving the community, the mission of the Japanese American Service Committee of Chicago is to preserve and raise awareness of Japanese American culture and heritage, and promote the physical and spiritual well-being of Japanese Americans and the greater multicultural community in the Midwest. Visit www.jasc-chicago.org for more information.
AIRMW: Asian Improv aRts Midwest
Asian Improv aRts Midwest's mission is to build a vital, self-empowered Asian American community in the Chicago area by advancing the understanding and profile of Asian and Asian American cultures through the traditional and contemporary cultural arts. AIRMW is dedicated to creating productive relationships with artists, community and institutions in order to produce high quality arts programs that accurately reflect the multi-cultural, multi-ethnic reality of Chicago and the nation. Visit www.airmw.org for more information.
Acknowledgments
JASC Tsukasa Taiko and the Annual Chicago Taiko Legacy are programs of Asian Improv aRts Midwest and the Japanese American Service Committee and are supported in part by the Illinois Arts Council, the MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, the Alphawood Foundation, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and The Joyce Foundation.
the Illinois Arts Council
Richard H. Driehaus Foundation
the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation
the Alphawood Foundation
Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs
The Joyce Foundation
