Source: Experimental Sound Studio.
Experimental Sound Studio’s Creative Audio Archive Launches a Year of Events Focused on the Tatsu Aoki Fred Anderson Collection
First Public Event:
Screening: Fred Anderson Trio in Osaka
March 29, 2025
6:30-8:30p
at Asian Improv Arts Midwest
4875 N Elston Ave, ChicagoCHICAGO – In 2024, longtime Japanese-born, Chicago-based musician and arts organizer Tatsu Aoki donated a part of his collection documenting legendary jazz musician and venue owner Fred Anderson to Experimental Sound Studio’s Creative Audio Archive, in joint ownership with Asian Improv Arts Midwest. This concentrated collection of nearly 60 items spans 1998-2000 and documents an important period in Fred Anderson’s career and in Chicago jazz and improvised music, as well as the little studied connection between the Chicago jazz and Japanese music scenes.
On March 29, 2025 Creative Audio Archive collaborates with Asian Improv Arts Midwest—Founded and Directed by Aoki—to present a free, public Listening Party and Screening of rarely seen archival footage documenting a live performance by the Fred Anderson Trio in Osaka in 1999. The screening will be followed by a live discussion with Aoki.
