Ars Nova Workshop is thrilled to welcome back the Philadelphia-born free jazz collective Irreversible Entanglements, celebrating the release of their bracing new album at Solar Myth on Friday, March 27, 2026.

Irreversible Entanglements are a liberation-oriented free jazz collective formed in early 2015 by saxophonist Keir Neuringer, poet Camae Ayewa (a.k.a. Moor Mother) and bassist Luke Stewart, who came together to perform at a Musicians Against Police Brutality event organized after the slaying of Akai Gurley by the NYPD. Months later the group added trumpeter Aquiles Navarro and drummer Tcheser Holmes. Though free jazz with voice is an uncommon approach in the modern day landscape of the genre, the spirit and subject the band channels and explores represent a return to a central tenant of the sound as it was founded – to be a vehicle for Black liberation. As Joshua Minsoo Kim wrote in the Chicago Reader, “Irreversible Entanglements will leave you shaken.”

For the first of two performances this weekend, the band will celebrate the release of their eagerly anticipated new album.