Jake Wark is a saxophonist and composer who has been active in Chicago’s creative music community since 2014, when he relocated from upstate New York. He can be heard in numerous groups as a sideman and collaborator, including Javier Red’s Imagery Converter, whose first release, Ephemeral Certainties, was included in an NPR Jazz Critics’ Poll list of the best debuts of 2019. Jake has released two albums as a leader: 2020’s Scrawl, featuring Angel Bat Dawid, Jakob Heinemann, and Adam Shead, and 2017’s Tremor, with Drew Gress and Phil Haynes. This is the debut performance of a new band, featuring violinist Mark Feldman, bassist Ben Dillinger, and drummer Tommaso Moretti performing several of Jake's new compositions.