Art Ensemble of Chicago

After releasing a lauded new album in May, the influential avant-garde jazz troupe—now celebrating its 50th anniversary—is taking its experimental explorations on the road. The current incarnation features Roscoe Mitchell and Famoudou Don Moye (pictured) along with a lineup of other like-minded musicians, who will bring the literal bells and whistles—plus a piccolo trumpet and maybe a water drum or two—to town.