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SUMMARY:Rudresh Mahanthappa Hero Trio + Brandon Ross & Stomu Takeishi's For Living Lovers
DESCRIPTION:Angel City x Vernacular: Trio3 Improvisations\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors at 7:30pm8:00pm – For Living LoversBrandon Ross – acoustic guitarStomu Takeishi – acoustic bass guitar \n\n\n\n9:15 pm –  Rudresh Mahanthappa Hero Trio  \n\n\n\nRudresh Mahanthappa – alto saxophoneFrançois Moutin – acoustic bassTim Angulo – drums \n\n\n\n\n\nOver the course of an illustrious twenty-five-year career\, Rudresh Mahanthappa’s music making has constantly pushed at the artistic boundaries to encompass such diverse influences as classic bebop\, the flash and fury of electric fusion\, and the complexities of Carnatic music\, while always maintaining a clear sense of his own fiercely intelligent\, uncompromising musical personality. \n\n\n\n\n““Rudresh is definitely one of the strongest voices on the jazz scene.” \n– All Music\n\n\n\nFor Living Lovers is the acoustic duo of guitarist Brandon Ross and acoustic bass guitarist Stomu Takeishi. Founded in 2002\, the duo developed while Ross and Takeishi were members of visionary\, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Henry Threadgill’s quintet\, “Make A Move”. \n\n\n\n\n“… Ross and Takeishi create tandem waves of sound that mimic a sitar one moment and a Tibetan singing bowl the next.” \n– Downbeat\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRudresh Mahanthappa\n\n\n\nHailed by Pitchfork as “jaw-dropping… one of the finest saxophonists going\,” alto saxophonist\, composer\, and educator Rudresh Mahanthappa is widely known as one of the premier voices in jazz of the 21st century. \n\n\n\nHe has over a dozen albums to his credit\, including the acclaimed Bird Calls\, which topped many critics’ best-of-year lists for 2015 and was hailed by PopMatters as “complex\, rhythmically vital\, free in spirit while still criss-crossed with mutating structures.” His most recent release\, Hero Trio\, was considered to be one of the best jazz albums of 2020 by critics and fans alike. \n\n\n\nRudresh has been named alto saxophonist of the year for nine of the last eleven years running in DownBeat Magazine’s International Critics’ Polls (2011-2013\, 2015-2018\, 2020-1)\, and for five consecutive years by the Jazz Journalists’ Association (2009-2013) and again in 2016. \n\n\n\nHe won alto saxophonist of the year in the 2015-2018 & 2020 JazzTimes Magazine Critics’ Polls and was named the Village Voice’s “Best Jazz Artist” in 2015. \n\n\n\nHe has also received the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award\, among other honors\, and is currently the Anthony H. P. Lee ’79 Director of Jazz at Princeton University. \n\n\n\nhttps://www.rudreshm.com/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBrandon Ross\n\n\n\nAs a performing and recording artist\, guitarist and composer Brandon Ross has worked and collaborated with several innovative voices in modern music such as Henry Threadgill\, Wadada Leo Smith\, Cassandra Wilson\, Jewel\, Tony Williams\, Lizz Wright\, Arto Lindsay\, The Lounge Lizards\, Leroy Jenkins\, Oliver Lake\, Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris\, Bill Frisell\, Me’Shell N’degeocello\, Arrested Development\, Archie Shepp\, Muhal Richard Abrams\, Don Byron\, Ron Miles\, and many others. \n\n\n\nRoss leads For Living Lovers\, his Chamber Music for Improvisors acoustic duo with acoustic bass guitarist Stomu Takeishi. The duo’s debut album Revealing Essence was released to critical acclaim\, and as a recipient of Chamber Music America’s New Jazz Works grant\, Ross was commissioned to compose the duo’s new work titled Immortal Obsolescence. \n\n\n\nRoss co-leads the avant power trio\, Harriet Tubman\, (with bassist Melvin Gibbs\, and drummer JT Lewis)\, using electronics and pan-tonality to sculpt a multidimensional\, interactive\, sonic language in a classic R&B/Rock configuration of guitar\, bass\, and drums. \n\n\n\nIn his acoustic-based quartet\, Blazing Beauty\, Ross plays banjo\, electric\, acoustic\, and soprano guitars to extend his expressive range into “folk” oriented musics and compositional approaches that communicate his dedication to fresh musical experience. He has released two albums with Blazing Beauty\, Costume (2004) and Puppet (2006) on the Japanese label Intoxicate Records. Both garnered rave reviews\, and appearances on several Japanese critics’ “best of the year” lists. \n\n\n\nDescribed as “restlessly inventive” (Time Out New York)\, Ross explores various forms of expression in collaborations with artists that inspire him. In AiR with mezzo soprano Alicia Hall Moran\, Ross recasts Roland Hayes’ Aframerican spirituals through contemporary electric guitar vernacular; in DarkMatterHalo\, a ‘Glyph’ electronic music collective\, Ross investigates the current state and use of “exo-technology” with regard to sound production; in Pendulum\, Ross incorporates sound design to expand sonic and textural possibilities beyond the voice of a single instrument; and in Phantom Station Ross establishes a creative music context that hosts a revolving personnel and open musical direction dedicated to collective improvised music making and compositional interpretation. \n\n\n\nRoss has been previously commissioned by the ASCAP Foundation\, New York State Council of the Arts (NYSCA)\, and is a recipient of Rockefeller Foundation’s MAP Grant and Chamber Music America’s New Jazz Works grant. He is a current ASCAP writer and publisher member. \n\n\n\nRoss’ teaching credits include Banff Summer Institute of Jazz and Creative Music\, Princeton University’s Graduate Program in Composition\, Artez Conservatorium of Arnhem (Netherlands)\, and Koninklijk Conservatorium\, Antwerp (Belgium). \n\n\n\nhttps://www.brandonross.nyc/
URL:https://angelcityjazz.com/event/rudresh-mahanthappa/
LOCATION:REDCAT at Disney Hall\, 631 W 2nd Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012\, United States
CATEGORIES:2025 Angel City Jazz Festival
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SUMMARY:Adam Rudolph: Sunrise Trio + Special Guests
DESCRIPTION:Angel City x Vernacular: Trio3 Improvisations\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented in partnership with \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors at 7:30pm8:00pm – Adam Rudolph: Sunrise Trio \n\n\n\nAdam Rudolph – handrumset\, electronic processing\, thumb pianos\, mouth bow\, gongs\, glockenspiel. percussionAlexis Marcelo  – piano\, electric keyboards\, percussionKaoru Watanabe – taiko\, alto\, noh kan and fue flutes\, electric koto and processing\, percussion \n\n\n\nplus special guestsMegan Shung – violinChris Votek – celloNatalie Brejcha – viola \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nSunrise Trio is Adam Rudolph’s newest project bringing together key members of his decades-long Go: Organic Orchestra to create a new electro-acoustic world music ensemble. \n\n\n\nThe musicians’ experience and familiarity with Rudolph’s creative vision and concepts allows for a kind of focus and freedom in the shaping of the orchestral concept. \n\n\n\nThe alchemy between these artists makes for music that is unique\, deeply rooted\, and soulful. \n\n\n\n\n“A pioneer in world music“ \n– New York Times\n\n\n\n\n“A percussion wizard“ \n– Downbeat\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdam Rudolph\n\n\n\nFor the past four decades\, composer\, improviser\, and percussionist Adam Rudolph has performed extensively in concert throughout North & South America\, Europe\, Africa\, and Asia. Rudolph has been hailed as “a pioneer in world music” by the New York Times and “a master percussionist” by Musician magazine. \n\n\n\nHe has released over 25 recordings under his own name\, featuring his compositions and percussion work. Rudolph composes for his ensembles Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures\, Hu: Vibrational percussion group\, and Go: Organic Orchestra\, an 18 to 54 piece group for which he has developed an original music notation and conducting system. He has taught and conducted hundreds of musicians worldwide in the Go: Organic Orchestra concept. \n\n\n\nIn 1995 Rudolph premiered his opera The Dreamer\, based on the text of Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy. \n\n\n\nRudolph has performed with Don Cherry\, Jon Hassell\, Sam Rivers\, Pharaoh Sanders\, L. Shankar\, AACM co-founders Fred Anderson and Muhal Richard Abrams\, Wadada Leo Smith\, and Omar Sosa. He has toured extensively and recorded 15 albums with Yusef Lateef\, including duets and their large ensemble compositional collaborations.https://metarecords.com/adam.html
URL:https://angelcityjazz.com/event/adam-rudolph-sunrise-trio/
LOCATION:Pasadena Conservatory of Music\, 100 North Hill Avenue\, Pasadena\, California\, 91106
CATEGORIES:2025 Angel City Jazz Festival
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SUMMARY:Ches Smith's Clone row + Mary Halvorson & Tomas Fujiwara duo
DESCRIPTION:Angel City x Vernacular: Trio3 Improvisations\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors at 8:00pm8:30pm – Mary Halvorson & Tomas Fujiwara duoMary Halvorson – Guitar Tomas Fujiwara – drums 9:30pm – Ches Smith’s Clone RowChes Smith – Drums\, vibes\, electronicsMary Halvorson – Guitar Liberty Ellman – Guitar Nick Dunston – Bass\, electronics \n\n\n\n\n\nClone Row is used by Smith as a vehicle to display and showcase a talent at the height of its powers\, demonstrating not only his own superlative musicianship but also his strengths as a composer. \n\n\n\n\n“One of the wiliest drummers on the experimental scene” \n– The New York Times\n\n\n\n\n“Ches Smith builds here on his reputation as a gifted new voice with an important vision\, while showcasing some of the most creative musicians of our time.“ \n– Marc Ribot\n\n\n\nDrummer Tomas Fujiwara and guitarist Mary Halvorson have been collaborating for almost 20 years. They met in New York City in the early 2000’s\, and first started playing together in cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum’s sextet. \n\n\n\nSince then they have become each other’s most frequent collaborators\, working together in a myriad of projects. Their duo project showcases a new book of music built on years of history and collaboration in a stripped down setting. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChes Smith\n\n\n\nOriginally from Sacramento\, California\, Ches Smith is a drummer\, percussionist\, and composer based in New York. He has collaborated with a host of artists on many scenes since the early 2000s\, including Marc Ribot\, Tim Berne\, John Zorn\, Darius Jones\, David Torn\, John Tchicai\, Nels Cline\, Mary Halvorson\, Trevor Dunn\, Terry Riley\, Kris Davis\, Dave Holland\, Secret Chiefs 3\, Xiu Xiu\, Good for Cows\, Theory of Ruin\, and Mr. Bungle\, among others. \n\n\n\nHe has nine records to his name as a bandleader that feature his writing and ensemble curation\, and is a devout student of Haitian Vodou drums\, performing in religious and folkloric contexts in New York and Haiti for the last decade.https://www.chessmith.com/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Halvorson & Tomas Fujiwara\n\n\n\nGuitarist\, composer\, and MacArthur fellow Mary Halvorson has been described as “a singular talent” (Lloyd Sachs\, JazzTimes)\, ”NYC’s least-predictable improviser” (Howard Mandel\, City Arts)\, “one of the most original jazz guitarists of our time” (Peter Margasak\, Bandcamp Daily)\, and “one of today’s most formidable bandleaders” (Francis Davis\, Village Voice). In recent DownBeat Critics Polls\, she has been celebrated as guitarist\, rising star jazz artist\, and rising star composer of the year. \n\n\n\nOver the past two decades\, she has worked with such diverse musicians as Tim Berne\, Anthony Braxton\, Taylor Ho Bynum\, John Dieterich\, Trevor Dunn\, Bill Frisell\, Ingrid Laubrock\, Myra Melford\, Jason Moran\, Joe Morris\, Tom Rainey\, Jessica Pavone\, Tomeka Reid\, Marc Ribot\, Ches Smith\, and John Zorn. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBrooklyn-based Tomas Fujiwara is an active player in some of the most exciting music of the current generation. He leads the bands Triple Double\, 7 Poets Trio\, and Tomas Fujiwara & The Hook Up; has a collaborative duo with Taylor Ho Bynum; is a member of the collective trio Thumbscrew (with Mary Halvorson and Michael Formanek); and engages in a diversity of creative work with Anthony Braxton\, John Zorn\, Mary Halvorson\, Tomeka Reid\, Matana Roberts\, Nicole Mitchell\, Ben Goldberg\, Amir ElSaffar\, Benoit Delbecq\, and many others. \n\n\n\n\n“Drummer Tomas Fujiwara works with rhythm as a pliable substance\, solid but ever shifting. His style is forward-driving but rarely blunt or aggressive\, and never random. He has a way of spreading out the center of a pulse while setting up a rigorous scaffolding of restraint…A conception of the drum set as a full-canvas instrument\, almost orchestral in its scope.”— New York Times \n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.maryhalvorson.com/https://www.tomasfujiwara.com/
URL:https://angelcityjazz.com/event/ches-smiths-clone-row/
LOCATION:2220 Arts + Archives\, 2220 Beverly Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90057\, United States
CATEGORIES:2025 Angel City Jazz Festival
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SUMMARY:Jeff Parker Trio + Hanging Hearts
DESCRIPTION:Angel City x Vernacular: Trio3 Improvisations\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors at 8:00pm8:30pm – Hanging HeartsChris Weller – tenor saxCole DeGenova – keyboards\, synth bassQuin Kirchner – drums\, percussion 9:30pm – Jeff Parker TrioJeff Parker – electric guitarKarl McComas-Reichl – bassChris Speed – tenor saxophone/clarinet \n\n\n\n\n\nJeff Parker is recognized as one of contemporary music’s most versatile and innovative electric guitarists and composers. With a prolific output characterized by musical ideas of angularity and logic\, he works in a wide variety of mediums—from pop\, rock\, and jazz to new music—using ideas informed by innovations and trends in both popular and experimental forms. \n\n\n\nRooted in Chicago’s rich tradition of forward-thinking jazz and experimental music\, Hanging Hearts is a progressive trio that thrives at the intersection of energy\, groove\, and improvisation. Melding jazz with rock intensity\, electronic textures\, and avant-garde sensibilities\, Hanging Hearts embodies the genre-blurring ethos that has long defined Chicago’s creative music scene. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJeff Parker\n\n\n\nAn integral part of what has become known as The Modern Chicago Sound\, Jeff Parker is a longtime member of the influential indie band Tortoise\, and a founding member of Isotope 217˚ and Chicago Underground. His extensive work as a collaborator and session musician highlights his versatility\, with credits that include Andrew Bird\, Meshell Ndegeocello\, Joshua Redman\, Toumani Diabaté\, George Lewis\, Bennie Maupin\, Nicole Mitchell\, Peter Erskine\, Carmen Lundy\, Makaya McCraven\, Vijay Iyer\, Yo La Tengo\, Daniel Lanois\, Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band\, Jason Moran\, Joey DeFrancesco\, Nels Cline\, Charles Earland\, Ken Vandermark\, Dave Douglas\, Fred Anderson\, Tom Zé\, Clipping\, and many more. \n\n\n\nParker has released several acclaimed albums as a leader\, including Like-Coping (2003)\, The Relatives (2005)\, Bright Light in Winter (2012)\, The New Breed (2016)\, Slight Freedom (2016)\, and Suite for Max Brown (2020). The New Breed and Slight Freedom were named two of the Top 10 Jazz releases of 2016 by The New York Times\, and The New Breed was chosen as the Top Jazz Album of 2016 by The London Observer. His latest release\, Suite for Max Brown (2020)\, debuted at Number 1 on the Billboard Jazz Chart and appeared on numerous year-end “Best Of” lists\, including WIRE Magazine\, MAGNET Magazine\, and The Guardian. \n\n\n\nIn 2017\, the renowned contemporary music ensemble Dal Niente premiered Parker’s composition Water on Glass at the Ear Taxi Festival. Expanding into production\, he has worked with Jeremy Cunningham (The Weather Up There) and Paul Bryan (Cri$el Gems). As a film composer\, Parker has scored several documentaries and contributed music to feature films and video games. \n\n\n\nParker has been a member of Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) since 1995. \n\n\n\nhttps://jeffparkersounds.com/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHanging Hearts\n\n\n\n“The Chicago-based band particularly shines in the space where the roads of avant-garde free improvisation\, rock attitude\, and the boundlessness of electronic experimentation intersect. Emerging from this crossroads\, the entirety of Where’s Your Head At features shifting textures that are unpredictable yet feel so natural. The band places its head in some fascinating spaces.”— Rob Shepherd\, PostGenre \n\n\n\n“It’s this kind of cross-pollination that makes Hanging Hearts so fun to listen to. The sheer joy of the musicians is almost palpable. Whether it is the soft-spoken For Those Who Need To Hear It\, the trippy Horizon or the upbeat Rise\, they always find a way to both challenge and support one another. None of them has the upper hand\, but there is one clear winner: the listener.”— Hans Werksman\, Here Comes The Flood \n\n\n\n“The vitality of punk rock fused with the carefree spirit of free jazz creates a raw musical energy\, yet the trio crafts a different finale with Coltranean sax etchings over cymbal-toms textures and spacious synth embellishments. The trio’s progressive approach yields fascinating results\, making Where’s Your Head At a memorable album and a standout in Hanging Hearts’ still small yet impressive discography.”— Filipe Freitas\, Jazz Trailhangingheartsmusic.com
URL:https://angelcityjazz.com/event/jeff-parker-trio-hanging-hearts/
LOCATION:2220 Arts + Archives\, 2220 Beverly Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90057\, United States
CATEGORIES:2025 Angel City Jazz Festival
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SUMMARY:Angel City x Vernacular: Trio3 Improvisations
DESCRIPTION:Angel City x Vernacular: Trio3 Improvisations\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors at 6:30pmTrio 1Carole Kim – live video\, sound objects\, electronicsKozue Matsumoto – kotoAine Nakamura – movement\, voiceTrio 2Alex Cline – percussionDwight Trible – voiceJoshua White – keyboard \n\n\n\nTrio 3Joe Baiza – guitarMike Watt – bassMatt Crane – drums \n\n\n\n\n\nVernacular: New Music teams up with Angel City Jazz Festival for the third year in a row to present\, fittingly\, an evening of three trios. We invited three disparate but equally compelling artists\, percussion maestro Alex Cline\, visual and sonic explorer Carole Kim\, and punk abstractionist Joe Baiza\, to each select two additional collaborators for the evening.The three trios that resulted from the process represent unique approaches to improvisation and collaboration; three very different responses to the challenge of creating in the moment based on the excitement of working with new personalities or the discovery of new possibilities by fathoming the depths of established personal relationships. \n\n\n\nWorking with light and images\, movement\, language and poetry\, and sound\, the artists presenting tonight create spontaneously in real time\, producing what could never be planned\, and revealing what could never be predicted.    \n\n\n\n† \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlex Cline\n\n\n\nFrom his beginnings as an eleven-year-old rock drummer through his almost fifty-year career playing drums and percussion with many of the most important and celebrated artists in the fields of creative jazz and new music\, improvisation and collaboration have been two of the most prominent aspects present throughout all of Alex Cline’s endeavors as a musician. Two of Alex’s own large-scale projects\, “For People in Sorrow” (2011\, a tribute to Roscoe Mitchell and the AACM) and “Oceans of Vows” (2015\, a tribute to his teacher Thich Nhat Hanh) were graciously presented by the Angel City Jazz Festival and beautifully made available as artifacts by Cryptogramophone Records. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCarole Kim\n\n\n\nCarole Kim is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus on multimedia installation\, video projection\, live and telematic performance\, drawing and experimental sound. She has experimented extensively with video projection in space including intricately hand-made layered projection environments and site-specific video projection onto large scale urban architecture and natural landscapes such as the forest in Norway\, the rockscapes in Joshua Tree and the old oak groves in Descanso Gardens. She considers improvisation to be a heightened expansive form of interaction and has sought this dynamic exchange across disciplines. Animated by the ability to nurture a modest inspired spark into something magical keeps Kim feeling like the world can always be made larger and more humane. She thrives on venturing out to the edges of her creative curiosity and inviting others to synergistically join her there.https://www.carole.kim.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoe Baiza\n\n\n\nJoe Baiza is one of the most distinctive guitarists to emerge from the so-called punk rock scene of southern California\, “so-called” because most of Baiza’s music fits more into the categories of free jazz or jazz-rock. He has often been ahead of the curve with his musical thinking\, playing intense instrumental jams a few years before his audience would be eager for them\, and bringing together the creative anarchy of improvised music with the independent attitude of the punk scene at a time when the two philosophies seemed mutually exclusive\, at least superficially. \n\n\n\nAn accomplished visual artist\, Baiza approaches sound in a painterly way\, adding his unique coloration to sounds as widely disparate as pioneering Saccharine Trust\, Universal Congress Of’s punchy garage jazz\, and the earthy skronk of the Mecolodiacs.
URL:https://angelcityjazz.com/event/angel-city-x-vernacular-trio-3-improvisations/
LOCATION:Gloria Kaufman Community Center Theatre\, 10808 Culver Boulevard\, Culver City\, California\, 90230
CATEGORIES:2025 Angel City Jazz Festival
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SUMMARY:Adegoke Steve Colson & Iqua Colson
DESCRIPTION:Angel City x Vernacular: Trio3 Improvisations\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors at 7:30pm8:00pm – Adegoke Steve Colson & Iqua Colson \n\n\n\nAdegoke Steve Colson – pianoIqua Colson  – vocalsTrevor Ware – bassFritz Wise – drumsMaia – flute & harp \n\n\n\nThe Colsons’ latest album Glow: Music for Trio…Add Voice was just released on August 22ndhttps://colsonsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/glow-music-for-trio-add-voice \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nReferred to as a “musical power couple” (The New York Times) and early members of the famed AACM\, pianist/composer Adegoke Steve Colson and vocalist/composer Iqua Colson focus on many facets of the human experience.Their critically acclaimed performances and recordings illuminate social issues\, and have featured such innovators as Reggie Workman\, David Murray\, Tyshawn Sorey\, Joseph Jarman\, Oliver Lake\, Tomeka Reid\, and Henry Threadgill\, as well as master artists of other disciplines including dancer/choreographer Savion Glover\, writer/activist Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)\, and dancer/actress Carmen de Lavallade. \n\n\n\n“This power couple sends out more love than any billionaire-philanthropist ever managed ….early influential members of the AACM…the Colsons are still here\, still vital and still making music for the heart and the head.”  – Downbeat August 2025 \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdegoke Steve Colson\n\n\n\nAdegoke Steve Colson – pianist\, composer\, saxophonist\, historian\, educator – performs internationally as a soloist and leader of ensembles ranging from trios to orchestras. His work appears on labels including Columbia/Sony\, Evidence\, and Black Saint. \n\n\n\nBorn in Newark and raised in East Orange\, NJ\, Steve started writing music during his high school years. He earned his degree from Northwestern University School of Music and joined the influential musicians’ collective\, the Association for Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in 1972 while living in Chicago. He returned to the East Coast in 1982\, moving to Montclair\, NJ. \n\n\n\nHis projects have featured modern innovators – Reggie Workman\, David Murray\, Henry Threadgill\, Malachi Favors\, Joseph Jarman\, Anthony Davis\, Andrew Cyrille\, Tyshawn Sorey\, Oliver Lake – among many other musicians; and collaborations including master artists of other disciplines such as poet/activist Amiri Baraka\, dancer/choreographer Carmen de Lavallade\, and artist Willie Cole. \n\n\n\nHe co-owns recording label Silver Sphinx with wife and musical partner Iqua\, and their first release in 1980 later became part of Gilles Peterson’s 2011 compilation Freedom\, Rhythm & Sound\, which credited them as the early roots of the “indie” movement alongside such independent innovators as Maurice White\, John Coltrane\, Sun Ra\, and Mary Lou Williams. \n\n\n\nAde is featured on 14 recordings\, 6 as ensemble leader and one solo piano. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIqua Colson\n\n\n\nIqua Colson began studying piano\, dance\, and voice as a child\, which led to her entering Northwestern University School of Music as a piano major at 16 years old. She was named a Vocal Talent Deserving Wider Recognition by DownBeat Magazine and has been recognized by Billboard Magazine for distinguished achievement as a lyricist. \n\n\n\nThe media has placed her in the company of some of our finest known vocal innovators and stylists including Sarah Vaughan\, Nina Simone\, and Abbey Lincoln. Her work has been discussed/reviewed in many languages and can be found in countless periodicals\, and in several books including: Black Women & Music: More than the Blues\, an anthology of essays/interviews on several women in music including the great Leontyne Price. \n\n\n\nIqua worked with tenor saxophone titan Fred Anderson for several years in her early career. This contributed to her decision to join the AACM in 1974 – that\, and the encouragement of friend and master drummer — AACM Founder\, Steve McCall. \n\n\n\nThough she has performed with other artists including Hamid Drake\, Amina Claudine Myers\, Joseph Jarman\, and Roscoe Mitchell\, her most frequent collaborator is her husband\, noted pianist and composer Adegoke Steve Colson. \n\n\n\nIn 2024\, The Northwestern University Libraries purchased The Adegoke Steve Colson and Iqua Colson Archives\, including scores\, compositions and artifacts relative to the first 50 years of their varied and prolific careers — an honor\, as they are now documented at Ade’s alma mater among one of the largest and most venerated music collections in the U.S.\, known for an unmatched strength in contemporary music.
URL:https://angelcityjazz.com/event/adegoke-steve-colson-iqua-colson/
LOCATION:The World Stage\, 4321 Degnan Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90008\, United States
CATEGORIES:2025 Angel City Jazz Festival
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SUMMARY:Milena Casado + Steph Richards Power Vibe
DESCRIPTION:Angel City x Vernacular: Trio3 Improvisations\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented in partnership with \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors at 7:30pm8:00pm – Steph Richards Power VibeSteph Richards – trumpetJoshua White – pianoStomu Takeishi – bassMax Jaffe – drums \n\n\n\n9:15 pm –  Milena CasadoMilena Casado – trumpet\, vocals\, fxMorgan Guerin – ewiLex Korten – piano\, synthKanoa Mendenhall – double bassJustin Brown – drums \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nCalled “a revelation” by The New York Times\, trumpeter and composer Milena Casado is one of the most compelling new voices in contemporary jazz. Known for her fluid improvisation and deeply personal compositions\, she effortlessly moves between acoustic music and electronic experimentation\, blending tradition with innovation. \n\n\n\nSteph Richards’ latest project Power Vibe is “easily the most emboldened and venturesome statement of her ascendant career.” (AAJ) A hyper-lucid exploration of experimental jazz\, electronics and groove. \n\n\n\n\n “...as adventurous and virtuosic as listeners have come to expect…”  \n– Jazziz\n\n\n\n\n“Richards is easily one of the most exciting brass players in the world\, and the personal stakes at the heart of Power Vibe make this her most\, pun unavoidable\, powerful album yet.“ \n– Free Jazz Collective\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMilena Casado\n\n\n\nCalled “a revelation” by The New York Times\, trumpeter and composer Milena Casado is one of the most compelling new voices in contemporary jazz. Known for her fluid improvisation and deeply personal compositions\, she effortlessly moves between acoustic music and electronic experimentation\, blending tradition with innovation. \n\n\n\nRecently recognized by the Los Angeles Times as a can’t-miss newcomer\, Milena Casado is keeping the spirit of jazz moving. Highlighted as a contemporary jazz artist audiences should know by WBGO\, Casado has already generated major buzz through her work with Terri Lyne Carrington\, Vijay Iyer\, Aaron Parks\, Kris Davis\, and other guiding forces in the music world\, earning critical acclaim. \n\n\n\nA notable bandleader in her own right\, Casado leads her own working quintet. Backed by this group\, Casado recently released her debut album\, Reflection of Another Self\, on Candid Records. \n\n\n\nReflection of Another Self is a stunning debut—sonically adventurous and deeply personal\, a journey of self-discovery and resilience\, overcoming personal traumas. It is a bold statement from a newcomer who has been honing her skill with luminaries and biding her time\, constructing a debut album fit for someone destined to upend the jazz world.https://www.milenacasado.com/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSteph Richards\n\n\n\nSteph Richards is a dynamic improvisor known for her innovative approach to the trumpet and interdisciplinary expression as a composer. An “innately adventurous trumpeter” (DownBeat)\, she has collaborated with visionaries Henry Threadgill\, Anthony Braxton\, Muhal Richard Abrams and John Zorn as well as art pop luminaries Yoko Ono\, St. Vincent\, David Byrne and Laurie Anderson.  \n\n\n\nCharacterized by The New York Times as “boldly inventive…Richards composes in ways that standard notation could never document\,” her works span interactions with film\, poetry\, electronics\, choreography and scent and have garnered critical acclaim including Record of the Year by The New York Times and DownBeat. Her seminal record Supersense (2019)\, featuring all-star improvisers Jason Moran\, Stomu Takeishi and Kenny Wolleson\, includes multimedia artist Sean Raspet creating singular\, abstract scents to both inform and converse with the recording. \n\n\n\nHer work as an improviser has brought her into contact with progressive voices in jazz and experimental music\, including Ravi Coltrane\, Roscoe Mitchell\, Mary Halvorson\, Tomeka Reid\, Nicole Mitchell\, Ingrid Laubrock and Jeff Parker\, while her conducting work— informed by the concept of “Conduction” developed by Butch Morris— has taken her to orchestras around the world\, where she continues to push the boundaries of musical expression.https://www.stephrichards.com/
URL:https://angelcityjazz.com/event/milena-casado-steph-richards/
LOCATION:UCLA  Nimoy Theatre\, 1262 Westwood Boulevard\, Los Angeles\, California\, 90024
CATEGORIES:2025 Angel City Jazz Festival
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SUMMARY:Dan Rosenboom's Coordinates Orchestra + Devin Daniels Quintet
DESCRIPTION:Angel City x Vernacular: Trio3 Improvisations\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented in partnership with \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors at 7:30pm8:00pm – Devin Daniels QuintetDevin Daniels – sax & compositionJulien Knowles – trumpetChristian Euman – drumsIsaiah Harwood – pianoMauricio Morales – bass \n\n\n\n9:15 pm –  Dan Rosenboom’s Coordinates Orchestra \n\n\n\nDan Rosenboom – Trumpets\, CompositionsAnthony Parnther – ConductorJake Vossler – GuitarsJerry Watts Jr. – Electric BassCaleb Dolister – DrumsGloria Cheng – PianoJoshua White – KeyboardMiguel Atwood-Ferguson – Electric 5-String ViolinGavin Templeton – SaxophonesBrian Walsh – ClarinetsRyan Dragon – TromboneErrol Rhoden – TubaKana Funayama – VibraphonewithThe Lyris Quartet:Alyssa Park – ViolinShalini Vijayan – ViolinLuke Maurer – ViolaMia Barcia-Colombo – CelloVisuals by Kio Griffith*Lineup subject to change without notice \n\n\n\n\n\nFor trumpeter-composer-producer Dan Rosenboom\, there are no boundaries when it comes to making music. Genre distinctions are meaningless\, unusual combinations of instruments are a hallmark\, and sources of inspiration are as numerous as the stars. \n\n\n\nHis expansive and explosive new album Coordinates is a multi-faceted exploration of self through the lenses of found numerical patterns\, cosmic temporal imagination\, orchestrational possibility\, and true friendship. It spans the stylistic universe from progressive jazz to metal\, world\, symphonic\, and chamber music sensibilities and features an extended cast of virtuoso musicians from the Los Angeles jazz scene and Hollywood film recording studios. \n\n\n\n\n““Rosenboom at his toughest and most colorful\, busting the walls to find grandeur in the collapse of modernity and opening cracks into the corners of the soul.” \n– Greg Burk\, metaljazz.com\n\n\n\nAlto saxophonist Devin Daniels stands out as one of the most unique and versatile voices to emerge from LA’s rapidly evolving creative music landscape. The Inglewood native has the unique ability to fit into any musical situation without sacrificing the integrity of his individual voice. For this special concert Devin will be premiering a new composition commissioned by the Los Angeles Jazz Society’s Jeff Clayton Memorial New Note Award. \n\n\n\n\n“Devin Daniels is a musician from whom we can expect big things” \n– All About Jazz\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDan Rosenboom\n\n\n\nDan Rosenboom is an internationally recognized trumpet player\, composer\, and producer. He is known as a prolific member of the Los Angeles creative music scene\, having released more than 25 albums of original music as a solo artist and bandleader and has supported over 60 artists across over 100 releases on his label\, Orenda Records.  \n\n\n\nRosenboom is a proud member of the Hollywood studio musician community and has recorded for over 200 major film and television soundtracks with such notable composers as John Williams\, Danny Elfman\, James Newton Howard\, Alan Silvestri\, Alexandre Desplat\, and many more. He has also performed with such elite ensembles as the LA Philharmonic\, the LA Chamber Orchestra\, and the LA Opera. \n\n\n\nHis own music eschews genre distinctions and draws from such disparate influences as Black American Music\, metal and experimental rock\, contemporary classical music\, folk music from the Balkans\, and a broad range of progressive music from the avant-garde. \n\n\n\nHe studied at the Eastman School of Music\, CalArts\, and UCLA\, where he earned advanced degrees in music. The Los Angeles Times has called Dan Rosenboom “a musician dedicated to exploration and expression\, regardless of anyone’s imagined boundaries\,” and “a phenomenon.”https://danrosenboom.com/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDevin Daniels\n\n\n\nAlto saxophonist Devin Daniels has the unique ability to fit into any musical situation without sacrificing the integrity of his individual voice. That\, combined with his warm and thoughtful personality\, is why Daniels has been invited to perform with bands led by Gerald Clayton\, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson\, John Beasley\, Sam Barsh and Jamael Dean. \n\n\n\nIn 2023\, the great Herbie Hancock invited Devin to join him alongside jazz legends Ron Carter\, Jack DeJohnette\, Terence Blanchard\, Chris Potter and LA-royalty\, Kamasi Washington in a performance at the Hollywood Bowl honoring the late iconic saxophonist\, Wayne Shorter. Following this performance\, Hancock invited Daniels to join his band again\, this time for a month-long US tour in the Spring of 2024. \n\n\n\nDaniels’ love for the saxophone started in the “Just Lovin’ Music Studios” program\, led by pianist Michelle Love— a free program designed to give students of color a chance to rent out and learn a new instrument. It was attending programs like this one that helped Daniels earn full-scholarships to study at some of the world’s most prestigious music schools: Berklee College of Music\, FocusYear Basel and the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Studies at UCLA. \n\n\n\nFollowing his time at the Hancock Institute\, Daniels was selected to be the Herb Alpert Foundation’s 2024 “Make Jazz Fellow”\, where he was commissioned to compose a range of new music over the course of three months\, much of which became the foundation for his newest album\, LesGo!. \n\n\n\nRecorded live at LA’s westside jazz club\, Sam First\, LesGo! captures the raw\, unadulterated energy that’s been brewing in LA’s jazz scene over the past 15+ years. Joining him on this recording are four of Daniels’ exceptionally talented LA-based cohorts – trumpeter Julien Knowles\, pianist Chris Fishman\, bassist Jermaine Paul and drummer Benjamin Ring. \n\n\n\nDaniels’ 2022 release Trio Exposition on The Village Records features Daniels in a trio format alongside drummer Christian Euman and bassist Logan Kane\, giving the three musicians space to fully explore and push each other. \n\n\n\nDaniels also produces electronic music in his downtime and has released an album on the Los Angeles-based record label\, Leaving Records\, under the name Kara-Do\, joining a catalog with the likes of Knxwledge\, Keifer\, and Carlos Niño. His electronic music has been described as “… fusion at its finest\, beat music and jazz moving forward in lockstep.”
URL:https://angelcityjazz.com/event/dan-rosenbooms-coordinates/
LOCATION:REDCAT at Disney Hall\, 631 W 2nd Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012\, United States
CATEGORIES:2025 Angel City Jazz Festival
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SUMMARY:The Gathering\, a Tribute to Jesse Sharps + Chris Powe
DESCRIPTION:Angel City x Vernacular: Trio3 Improvisations\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\npresented in partnership with \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n6:00pm – Chris PoweChris Powe – saxVeritus Miller – pianoPaul Reinhold – bassVinnie Aguas – drums \n\n\n\n7:00pm – The Gathering\, a Tribute to Jesse Sharps \n\n\n\nFundi Legohn – French Horn and ConductingDwight Trible – voiceTatiana Tate – trumpet Kafi Roberts – fluteDevin Daniels– saxophoneJamael Dean – pianoNick Rosen – bassMichael Alvidrez – bassFritz Wise – drums \n\n\n\n\n\nOn October 10th\, 2005 Jesse Sharps brought together some of the hottest young players in Los Angeles with members of Horace Tapscott’s Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra for a historic recording session. This session spawned The Gathering\, an ongoing community band\, a documentary film\, and multiple recordings. \n\n\n\nJesse was one of Horace’s most trusted and influential bandleaders\, leading the Arkestra during their strongest period in the ’70s\, on several seminal recordings\, and he recently put together a 60-year anniversary reunion session of the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra. \n\n\n\nThe Gathering was Jesse’s vehicle for bringing together musicians from a broad spectrum and highlighting the music of the Arkestra. And 20 years on now\, Jesse Sharps’ musical journey has become part of the Ancestral Echoes\, just as it did for his mentor and friend Horace Tapscott years before. \n\n\n\nAncestral Echoes was one of Jesse’s favorite compositions by Horace\, and like his mentor Horace\, his contributions will continue to be felt by those he inspired and connected with. Come celebrate this great music and legacy that will continue on for years to come. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJesse Sharps\n\n\n\nBack in the 1970s Jesse Sharps was the legendary bandleader for Horace Tapscott’s Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra. He led the group on the seminal albums released through Nimbus West Records at the peak of the band’s power and strength. \n\n\n\nFollowing an extended period abroad in Europe\, he returned to Los Angeles in the summer of 2005 to pull together and catalog the extensive repertoire of the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra\, featuring over 400 compositions by more than 100 composers dating back to the early 1960s. \n\n\n\nWith plans to bring select compositions forward and share them with the world\, The Gathering: Roots & Branches of Los Angeles Jazz was born. Since then Jesse continued his work featuring select pieces for performance and recording\, and put together the Los Angeles Composers of the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra\, an organization dedicated to bringing the music to schools and institutions throughout the world for performance and study.http://thegatheringleimertpark.com/
URL:https://angelcityjazz.com/event/the-gathering-young-artist-competition-winner/
LOCATION:LACMA\, 5905 Wilshire Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90036\, United States
CATEGORIES:2025 Angel City Jazz Festival
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SUMMARY:West Coast Progressive Chamber Jazz with Matt Small & Motoko Honda
DESCRIPTION:Angel City x Vernacular: Trio3 Improvisations\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented in partnership with \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors at 7:30pm8:00pm – Simple Excesses QuartetMotoko Honda – piano/compositionsCory Wright – woodwindsMatt Small – bassJordan Glenn – drums \n\n\n\n9:15 pm –  Crushing Spiral Ensemble \n\n\n\nMatt Small – bass/compositionsSteve Adams – tenor/soprano saxophonesCory Wright – alto saxophoneChris Grady – trumpetMotoko Honda – pianoJordan Glenn – drums \n\n\n\n\n\nMotoko Honda’s Simple Excesses QuartetSimple Excesses Quartet presents an exciting repertoire that unite classical chamber music\, jazz\, free jazz\, and experimental music. Their intricate and dynamic performances transport audience to a realm of ethereal music.Matt Small’s Crushing Spiral Ensemble \n\n\n\n\n“Beautifully surreal and hauntingly languid…demonstrating Small’s affinity for wry humor and quiet grandiosity“ \n– San Francisco Bay Guardian\n\n\n\n\n“Seductive and mysterious…shifting effortlessly among klezmer\, pop\, rock\, and improv jazz…Small infuses his quirky compositions with both breadth and intimacy  \n– San Francisco Weekly\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatt Small\n\n\n\nHailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as “a gifted San Francisco bassist and composer whose alluringly original music draws on a rich range of classical\, jazz and indigenous music\,” Matt Small has been developing his own cutting-edge\, multi-genre work in the Bay Area since 1997. \n\n\n\nWith a deep dedication to his craft and an unrelenting spirit of curiosity\, Small explores a wide variety of musical traditions while exercising “a strong aesthetic sensibility” (Down Beat Magazine). Small has found inspiration from a vast array of music\, including jazz\, experimental\, popular\, Western classical\, and indigenous music styles from around the world.http://www.mattsmall.org/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMotoko Honda\n\n\n\nMotoko Honda is a critically acclaimed Japanese concert pianist\, composer\, and sound artist who has created a distinctive sound through her holistic approach to music\, and her exceptional sensitivity in relating to other art forms and technologies. \n\n\n\nEmploying a “virtuoso technique paired with her intensely imaginative mind” (Susan Dirende\, L.A. Splash Magazine)\, and with stylistic influences ranging from jazz\, world music to contemporary prepared piano with electronics\, Motoko’s compositions and structured improvisations are intended to affect the skin\, organs and minds of the listener rather than simple recitations of rhythmic and harmonic themes. \n\n\n\nPortrayed as a “keyboard alchemist” (Chris Barton\, L.A. Times)\, and an “embodiment of a muse” (Greg Burk\, Metaljazz)\, Motoko’s performances transport audiences on sonic adventures that transcend the boundaries and conventions of contemporary music.https://www.motokohonda.com/
URL:https://angelcityjazz.com/event/west-coast-progressive-chamber-jazz/
LOCATION:Sierra Madre Playhouse\, 87 W Sierra Madre Blvd\, Sierra Madre\, CA\, 91024\, United States
CATEGORIES:2025 Angel City Jazz Festival
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