Hunter Diamond and Mike Reed's intergenerational duo performs spirited improvisations that extends the tradition of Chicago improvised music and the historic saxophone-drum collaborations between John Coltrane & Rashied Ali, Archie Shepp & Max Roach, Dewey Redman & Ed Blackwell, Charles Lloyd & Billy Higgins, Joe McPhee & Hamid Drake, and many others. 

Writing about the duo in the Chicago Reader ahead of their 2022 performance at Chicago's Hyde Park Jazz Festival, jazz journalist Bill Meyer wrote that "...the drums-and-reeds duo of Mike Reed and Hunter Diamond exemplify the city’s robust avant-garde community.”

Their debut record "Nilia" was released on Diamond's label Curio Records in 2021.

Performance will take place in the Claudia Cassidy Theater.