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Broken Shadows, a new concept supergroup with (L-R) Reid Anderson, Tim Berne, Dave King and Chris Speed, will be a highlight of events surrounding the Isthmus Jazz Festival in Madison. The quartet plays on June 16th (details below) . Courtesy SF JAZZ Center<\/em><\/p>\n

The 2018 Isthmus Jazz Festival in Madison is well underway but it has reimagined and reinvented itself into one of the largest jazz festival events in Wisconsin history. In collaboration with the Madison Jazz Consortium, the fest has done this by reclaiming and redistributing its resources into a vast, community-oriented event that also seems unique in the state’s history.<\/p>\n

So even if you’re only a not-too-long-drive away, it’s promising to be\u00a0a remarkably rich cultural experience.
\nThe event has expanded to ten days, having begun on June 1 and running officially through this Sunday.<\/p>\n

Plus, several major events extend beyond the official festival,\u00a0further into June but adding up to an extraordinarily rich extension of the festival’s ambitious parameters.<\/p>\n

The Isthmus Festival has both more free and richly diverse events, and more ticketed events than in the past. Among the notable events already passed are the Emerson Hunton Quintet with Greg Ward and Russ Johnson along with the former city poet laureate Fabu’s publication celebration for her book about Mary Lou Williams; the brilliant multi-instrumentalist and conceptualist Hanah Jon Taylor’s commissioned new work “Songs for the Emerging Man;” The New Breed Jam’s “Wayne Shorter Night;” and the ingenious Chicago flamenco jazz guitarist Goran Ivanovic.<\/p>\n

AND TODAY, FRIDAY, the unique and popular Strollin’ State Street<\/strong> neighborhood series continues into the evening with events at the Wisconsin Historical Museum, on the UW-Madison campus mall, and Fair Trade Coffee, Nick’s Restaurant and Parthenon Gyros, all on State Street.<\/p>\n

Among today’s\u00a0most appealing events is The\u00a0PLUGGED IN & SCRAP METAL HORNS <\/strong>at BEHIND THE BEAT JAZZ SERIES.\u00a0\u00a0Madison’s newest eleven-piece band covers 60 years of\u00a0jazz, R&B, and horn-rock.\u00a0 Their repertoire includes Santana to St. Paul and the Broken Bones, Dusty Springfield, Ray LaMontagne, Chicago, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats\u00a05-7pm. Friday. It’s free admission at\u00a0\u00a0UW Memorial Union Terrace<\/u><\/a>,\u00a0800 Langdon St.<\/p>\n

Isthmus Festival Saturday events continue thusly:<\/p>\n