Join us on Saturday, March 29, 2025 as the Creative Audio Archive collaborates with Asian Improv Arts Midwest 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. 

Scheduled to coincide with Fred Anderson’s birthday, this event kicks off a year of public performances, interviews, DJ sets, and other events delving into the Tatsu Aoki Fred Anderson Collection.

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. 

This program is supported by