Saturday September 20, 2025
Black Resistance, Black Rebirth Creative Dialogue
Past Events
February 28 through March 6, 2025: Compensation Film Screening Opening and Multiple Showings. Screening dates for the newly restored Janus and Criterion 4K version of the film Compensation. The original ragtime score to this 1999 film is composed and performed by Reginald R. Robinson. The Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago, IL)
February 18, 2025: The Logan Center for the Arts and Hyde Park Jazz Society presents Third Tuesday Jazz: Reginald Robinson, Hyde Park Campus, Logan Center, Café Logan (Chicago, IL) 2025
February 14, 2025: Rhythm & Love: A Valentine’s Day Pop-Up featuring Reginald Robinson, Green Line Performing Arts Center (Chicago, IL) 2025
February 8, 2025: Evanston History Center (Evanston, IL) 2025
Reginald Robinson at Givens Castle, 10244 S. Longwood Ave. (Chicago, IL) 2024
Winters Jazz Club / Spotlight On: Reginald Robinson – Solo Performance (Chicago, IL) 2024
Spinning Home Movies with Reginald R. Robinson at Logan Center for the Arts (Chicago, IL) 2023
Downers Grove Public Library (Chicago, IL) 2023
National Public Housing Museum “On The Lawn” Millennium Park (Chicago, IL) 2023
Lapham’s Quarterly Decades Ball: The 1900s (New York, NY) 2023
Dreihaus Museum’s “14th Birthday Celebration” (Chicago, IL) 2022
Celebrating Ragtime: Reginald Robinson & the Taslimah Bey Trio (Chicago, IL) 2021
Navy Pier “Water Colors” (Chicago, IL) 2021
University of North Carolina at Greensboro “The West African Clave’s Influence in the Americas” (Greensboro, NC) 2021
Lapham’s Quarterly Decades Ball: The 1890s (New York, NY) 2020
Skain’s Domain # 6 with Wynton Marsalis “virtual talk and performance” 2020
The Shedd Institute – MacArthur Fellows Musical Collaboration “Celebrating Disabled Women Activists” (Eugene, OR) 2019, watch the video here.
Symphony Center “A Tribute to the Great James Reese Europe” (Chicago, IL) 2018
St. Mary’s College – “From Mozart to Monk” (St. Mary’s City, MD) 2018
Jazz at Ellis Park – “Soundtrack of the City” – “Reginald Robinson & The 5th Element Jazz Band” (Chicago, IL) 2017
Sons d’hiver festival “Propaganda Nabaggala -1917- CRÉATION” w/ AACM (Paris, FR) 2017, watch the video here.
PianoForte presents Reginald Robinson & Jon Weber (Chicago, IL) 2016, watch the video here.
Sanfilippo Estate (Barrington, IL) 2016
Joliet Jr. College – “Reginald Robinson & The 5th Element Jazz Band” (Joliet, IL) 2016
Michigan Theater (Ann Arbor, MI) 2016
College of DuPage (Glen Ellyn, IL) 2016
Unitarian Church (Chicago, IL) 2016
SPACE (Evanston, IL) 2016
Northwest Suburban Community Concert Association (Arlington Heights, IL) 2016
WDCB Benefit Concert “Those Were The Days” (Chicago, IL) 2015
Joliet Jr. College “Reginald Robinson & The 5th Element Jazz Band” (Joliet, IL) 2015
Honoring writer Sandra Cisneros at The Fifth Star Award (Chicago, IL) 2015, watch the video here.
Waldorf College (Forest City, Iowa) 2015
Irish American Center (Chicago, IL) 2015
Evanston In-School Music Association (Evanston, IL) 2014
Unity Temple – Frank Lloyd Wright Trust (Oak Park, IL) 2014
Jazz Showcase (Chicago, IL) 2014
Blind Boone Festival at Missouri Theater (Columbia, MO) 2013
Saddle and Cycle Club (Chicago, IL) 2013
Reva and David Logan Center of Arts (Chicago, IL) 2013
Muntu Dance Theater “Memories ‘N Time” (Chicago, IL) 2013
City Winery (Chicago, IL) 2013
Minnesota NAHRO (Mankato, MN) 2013
Ten Pound Fiddle Concert (Lansing, MI) 2013
Ravinia (Highland Park, IL) 2012
Symphony Center (Chicago, IL) 2012
Art Institute (Chicago, IL) 2012
BCC (Lisbon, Portugal) 2011
Old Town School of Folk Music “Keep A Song In Your Soul” (Chicago, IL) 2011
Jazz Institute “Reginald Robinson & The 5th Element Jazz Band” at La Follette Park (Chicago, IL) 2011
Chicago Jazz Festival (Chicago, IL) 2011
Oriental Museum (Chicago, IL) 2011
Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI) 2010
Hyde Park Jazz Festival (Chicago, IL) 2010
Arm & Hammer Museum “Ragtime and Rubber Hose Limbs” (Los Angeles, CA) 2009
Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago, IL) 2008
Hot House Concerts at Dusable Museum w/ Timuel Black (Chicago, IL) 2008
Lincoln High School “Celebrating ragtime/jazz great Joe Jordan” (Tacoma, WA) 2008
St. Louis Art Museum (St. Louis, MO) 2008
Auditorium Theater “Concerto for a Genius” w/ Chicago Jazz Philharmonic (Chicago, IL) 2007
Jazz Showcase “Rhythm of The Americas” (Jazz Cruise on the Norwegian Sun) 2007
American Library Association “Arthur Curly Lecture” (San Antonio, TX) 2006
Chicago Humanities Festival at Roosevelt University (Chicago, IL) 2004
92nd St. Y “Jazz in July” (New York, NY) 2004
Gilmore Keyboard Festival (Kalamazoo, Michigan) 2002
Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY) 1999
Inaugural “Marian McPartland/Eastman Jazz Series” (Rochester, NY) 1999