Umbrella Music is a group of Chicago-based musicians and presenters working together to provide concert opportunities for creative and improvising musicians. Their goal is to pool resources in order to reach a larger audience for the music, and to provide better performance situations for artists. Umbrella members curate weekly concert series at Elastic, the Hideout, and the Hungry Brain, and work together to produce the Downtown Sound Gallery concerts at Gallery 37. They include Josh Berman, Mitch Cocanig, Mike Reed, Dave Rempis, Ken Vandermark, and special adviser Mike Orlove.
The Jazz
Posse : A sudden dearth of venues inspires jazz and
improvised-music promoters to band together ...
article by Peter Margasak in the Chicago Reader (PDF)