One of life's happy accidents has to involve stumbling into one of your favorite late night haunts and being completely blown away by a musical performance you originally had no intention of going to see (ok, maybe thats just me...). I knew the Hungry Brain had a jazz series on Sunday nights, but I have been completely missing out on them for one reason or another. Fortunately, I caught Peter Brötzmann on Sunday night, and I was so mesmerized by the show that I'm going to see him again at the Hideout tonight.

Brötzmann has been making his way around Chicago for the past week, playing with other Chicago jazz luminaries such as Michael Zerang, Ken Vandermark, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Kent Kessler, Tim Daisy, and Frank Rosaly and calling it the Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet. This has all been organized through the work of Umbrella Music, a group of Chicago musicians who are slowly but surely gathering talented musicians to perform at various venues around town, most notedly the Hideout Wednesday Immediate Sound Series. I'm not the biggest jazz freak in the world, but I will definitely be making more of a concerted effort to go check out what Umbrella Music has been contributing to the world of jazz music here in Chicago.