The Polish festival Jazztopad, which turns 16 in November, is extending its reach into the United States, marking its fifth year of events in New York and its first in Chicago, where the Iraqi-American trumpeter Amir ElSaffar will present a new chamber-music piece, Ahwaal (the title translates roughly as “states of consciousness”), on Sept. 28 as part of the Hyde Park Jazz Festival.
ElSaffar will perform the piece, which was commissioned by Jazztopad, with clarinetist Waclaw Zimpel, bassist Ksawery Wójciński, and the Lutosławski Quartet.
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