Formed in Chicago in 2009, Tiger Hatchery is a fierce power-jazz trio comprised of Mike Forbes (saxophones), Andrew Scott Young (basses), and Ben Billington (drums). Rising from the city’s free-jazz and noise-rock underground scenes, they deliver a sound that’s both rooted in the ESP-Disk free jazz tradition and fiercely forward-looking—melding intense improvisation with punk-infused noise and crushing rhythmic drive. Their 2013 ESP-Disk debut Sun Worship earned praise as “one of the most powerful albums in the storied 50‑year history of ESP‑Disk”, while their follow-up Breathing in the Walls (2018) continued to channel that same relentless, modern energy