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Jazz gets sold as either a museum or a homework assignment, and both framings keep out the exact person who would love it most — someone who likes texture, patience, and a horn that sounds like it is thinking. This is the other kind. The bandleader plays trumpet in an indie rock band the rest of the year, records for a Chicago label that treats an album like an environment rather than a set of solos, and the result is music that people put on to feel a certain way in a room rather than to admire technique. Live, the arrangements loosen considerably; the recorded versions are the outline. Expect long stretches where nobody is soloing at all and the whole band is just holding a color. The Highland Park venue is upstairs in an old Masonic lodge, which means high ceilings and a natural reverb that suits this music better than a jazz club would. Music at 8:00 PM. If this lands for you, the label it comes from has a deep bench of players who rotate through the same rooms all year.