The Green Mill
4802 N Broadway Ave
773.878.5552
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Exploding Star Orchestra
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Jan 8, 2010 – Jan 9, 2010
Daily
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- Price
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$12
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Founded five years ago by veteran musician/composer Rob Mazurek for a performance at the new concert hall in Millennium Park, Exploding Star Orchestra brought together a number of major talents from Chicago's jazz and avant-garde music scenes, including flautist Nicole Mitchell and members of Tortoise. If the original formation resembled a local super-group of sorts, the current octet is no less impressive. Before heading to the Green Mill, hunt down the group's two Thrill Jockey releases: 2008's collaboration with free-jazz legend Bill Dixon, and 2007's We Are All From Somewhere Else, which sidelines improvisational solos in favor of building an evocative narrative through the juxtaposition of various instruments' sounds.
