ANGEL CITY ARTS IS A MUSIC PRESENTING NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION COMMITTED TO CULTIVATING AND REVITALIZING JAZZ and NEW MUSIC CULTURE IN LOS ANGELES
- We focus on “west coast creative jazz & new music—past, present, and future”. bridging the gap between prominent national acts and local West Coast innovators, regularly creating opportunities for collaborations across regions.
- We cultivate venues partnerships: We are a nomadic concert series, hosting adventurous performances in diverse venues across Los Angeles to make our programming accessible to the entire community. Over the years we have formed partnerships with venues such as REDCAT, The Ford, the World Stage, 2220 Arts, the Nimoy Theatre, LACMA, the bluewhale, the Sierra Madre Playhouse, the Pasadena Conservatory of Music and many more.
- We follow an evolutionary focus, balancing trailblazers and emerging artist to sustain the evolution of the genre.
Los Angeles has long acted as a touchstone for change in improvisational music. Where crowded New York forced musicians together to shape the shared code of bebop in the 1940s, spacious Los Angeles encouraged individual thought, the kind that arrives like a light through a window or a quiet voice in a desert.
Since 2008, Angel City Arts has striven to continue the message of L.A. prophets such as Ornette Coleman, Billy Higgins, Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, Charlie Haden, Don Cherry, Horace Tapscott, John Carter and Bobby Bradford. All have made individualistic music; most have formed communities to foster innovative thought.
OUR PROGRAMS
- Angel City Jazz Fest/ Jazz Refractions
- Angel City Jazz Young Artist Competition
- ANGEL CITY ARTS presents at the bluewhale (coming soon)
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