Saxophonist Dustin Laurenzi, bassist-singer Katie Ernst, and drummer Andrew Green have spent the last fifteen years making music that has grown ever-more elastic, spontaneous, and open, embracing new inspirations without stifling the improvisational heart of their work. 

While all three musicians are active members in Chicago’s bustling jazz community, each playing in numerous working bands (Laurenzi tours with singer songwriter Bill Callahan, Ernst is in the touring band for folk artist Iron & Wine, and Green ubiquitous on the Chicago indie/jazz circuit), they’ve found a true collective voice as Twin Talk. They use live performances as opportunities to stretch—expanding on composed material and ditching set lists in favor of calling tunes on the fly. Their latest album Delights releases November 6, 2026 on Shifting Paradigm Records.

Recent concert highlights include the Chicago Jazz Festival and Big Ears Music Festival, with upcoming performances at the Sound & Gravity Festival (Chicago) and a world premiere of Delights at JazzFest Berlin in November 2026.

Press:

“[Twin Talk] subverts the usual sax trio conventions in clever, immensely satisfying ways…undeniably heavy music.” - Peter Margasak, Nowhere Street

“…free-improvisation aesthetic at its core…the tunes on Twin Talk Live are so dreamily melodic and hummable that they veer into the art-pop realm.” - Chicago Reader

“…Twin Talk has established itself as a marker of postmodern jazz creativity…” - ChicagoJazz.com