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Heisenberg Uncertainty Players
Heisenberg Uncertainty Players (HUP) is a 17-piece Chicago-area jazz ensemble that plays only original compositions and arrangements from members of the group. Formed in 2011, HUP has been featured around the Chicago area in venues like The Jazz Showcase, Martyrs’, Fitzgerald’s Night Club, The Logan Center for the Arts, and WGN-TV, and they currently hold a monthly residency at Wicker Park’s Phyllis’ Musical Inn. They have arranged a wide variety of music, covering jazz standards and showtunes to versions of songs by Radiohead, Led Zeppelin, 50 Cent, and other pop/rock artists. Notable projects for HUP include a collaboration with Chicago rapper K.I.D., their 2013 debut CD of all original compositions, entitled Emergency Postcards, and an upcoming collaboration with a visual artist on a suite written as an homage to torn down baseball stadiums.
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“I was intrigued by the music’s texture [sound], by the
technical virtuosity and
facility of the young musicians playing it, engaged by their
youthful exuberance
in executing it, constantly surprised by the new directions
these talented players
pushed the music, amused by their audaciousness in combining
meter and
melody in unexpected ways [Dave Brubeck would have loved
these guys],
amazed by the music’s humor and its poignancy [let alone
some of its
complicated song titles]“
-JazzProfiles Editorial Staff
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Last Updated: May 14, 2020
Heisenberg Uncertainty Players
Location: Chicago
Instrument: Band / ensemble / orchestra
Formed: 2011
