Internationally acclaimed Malian kora master Toumani Diabate, continues his collaboration with Chicago’s jazz community in a concert of original and newly commissioned material.  Toumani Diabate joins the Chicago Transilience Ensemble led by Jeb Bishop and Josh Berman with Hamid Drake, Josh Abrams, Jeff Parker, Jason Adasiewicz, Nicole Mitchell and Nate Lepine for an evening of cross-cultural fertilization, improvisation and expanded musical frontiers.

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