BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Angel City Jazz - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://angelcityjazz.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Angel City Jazz REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20270314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20271107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260307T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260307T153000 DTSTAMP:20260623T060019 CREATED:20260207T024920Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260227T195114Z UID:10000762-1772892000-1772897400@angelcityjazz.com SUMMARY:Stephan Crump DESCRIPTION:Stephan Crump\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFREE CONCERT \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented in partnership with the Torrance Public Library \n\n\n\n2:00pm Stephan Crump – solo acoustic bass \n\n\n\nGrammy-nominated\, Memphis-bred bassist/composer Stephan Crump in solo concert celebrating the vinyl release of Rocket Love. \n\n\n\nGet Rocket Love here:https://stephancrump.bandcamp.com/album/rocket-lovehttps://www.stephancrump.com/store \n\n\n\n\n “…astonishingly beautiful playing” Downbeat\n\n\n\n“I am tempted to call Rocket Love my favorite solo bass recording of all time. At a minimum\, it is the most varied and fun.“ Pop Matters\n\n\n\n“a visionary artist who can convey profound themes through the medium of sound” All About Jazz\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMemphis-bred\, Grammy-nominated\, Echo Award-winning bassist/composer Stephan Crump is an active bandleader with fifteen critically-acclaimed album releases and numerous film scoring contributions. \n\n\n\nStephan’s solo performance\, which explores his unique musical language through an expansive range of sonorities on the acoustic bass\, is a culmination of decades of work as a bassist\, composer\, and improviser. From his home studio in Brooklyn\, Crump released monthly solo recordings from 2020 into 2021 for a fan-supported series via his Bandcamp page. The solo album\, Rocket Love\, is curated from this body of work. \n\n\n\nKnown for transforming his instrument into a speaking entity of magnetic pull\, Crump’s focus on creative instrumental music has led to collaborations with many of the leading lights of his generation\, most notably Vijay Iyer\, in whose trio and sextet he played a dynamic\, founding role. \n\n\n\nStephan can also be heard as long-standing member of Jen Chapin Trio\, Ches Smith Trio\, Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quartet\, Liberty Ellman Sextet\, Secret Keeper (duo with Mary Halvorson)\, his own Rosetta Trio (with Jamie Fox\, Liberty Ellman)\, his Rhombal quartet (with Ellery Eskelin\, Adam O’Farrill\, Tyshawn Sorey)\, Borderlands Trio (with Kris Davis\, Eric McPherson) as well as his trio with Ingrid Laubrock and Cory Smythe. \n\n\n\nCrump’s physical and emotional connection to the bass is abundant through the new sextet Slow Water\, which explores ecology and environment through composition and group communication. URL:https://angelcityjazz.com/event/stephan-crump/ LOCATION:Torrance Southeast Library\, 23115 Arlington Ave.\, Torrance\, California\, 90501 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://angelcityjazz.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/MixCollage-06-Feb-2026-06-19-PM-1181.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251019T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251019T223000 DTSTAMP:20260623T060019 CREATED:20250611T080924Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251020T152233Z UID:10000327-1760904000-1760913000@angelcityjazz.com SUMMARY:Rudresh Mahanthappa Hero Trio + Brandon Ross & Stomu Takeishi's For Living Lovers DESCRIPTION:Stephan Crump\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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://angelcityjazz.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/1019rudreshbrandonupdated.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251018T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251018T223000 DTSTAMP:20260623T060019 CREATED:20250613T162452Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251020T152114Z UID:10000329-1760817600-1760826600@angelcityjazz.com SUMMARY:Adam Rudolph: Sunrise Trio + Special Guests DESCRIPTION:Stephan Crump\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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://angelcityjazz.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/1018pcmsunrisetrioadam.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251017T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251017T223000 DTSTAMP:20260623T060019 CREATED:20250618T140506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251020T151640Z UID:10000330-1760733000-1760740200@angelcityjazz.com SUMMARY:Ches Smith's Clone row + Mary Halvorson & Tomas Fujiwara duo DESCRIPTION:Stephan Crump\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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://angelcityjazz.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/10172220chesmary.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251016T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251016T223000 DTSTAMP:20260623T060019 CREATED:20250822T170221Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251020T151934Z UID:10000760-1760646600-1760653800@angelcityjazz.com SUMMARY:Jeff Parker Trio + Hanging Hearts DESCRIPTION:Stephan Crump\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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://angelcityjazz.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/10162220jeffhanginghearts.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251015T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251015T223000 DTSTAMP:20260623T060019 CREATED:20250916T181013Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251020T151815Z UID:10000761-1760556600-1760567400@angelcityjazz.com SUMMARY:Angel City x Vernacular: Trio3 Improvisations DESCRIPTION:Stephan Crump\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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://angelcityjazz.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/1015wendemusuemvernacularupdated.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251013T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251013T223000 DTSTAMP:20260623T060019 CREATED:20250702T181419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251014T134741Z UID:10000332-1760385600-1760394600@angelcityjazz.com SUMMARY:Adegoke Steve Colson & Iqua Colson DESCRIPTION:Stephan Crump\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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://angelcityjazz.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/1013worldstagecolson.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251012T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251012T223000 DTSTAMP:20260623T060019 CREATED:20250612T181258Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251014T134239Z UID:10000328-1760299200-1760308200@angelcityjazz.com SUMMARY:Milena Casado + Steph Richards Power Vibe DESCRIPTION:Stephan Crump\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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://angelcityjazz.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/new1012milenasteph.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251011T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251011T223000 DTSTAMP:20260623T060019 CREATED:20250610T084518Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251014T134028Z UID:10000326-1760212800-1760221800@angelcityjazz.com SUMMARY:Dan Rosenboom's Coordinates Orchestra + Devin Daniels Quintet DESCRIPTION:Stephan Crump\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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://angelcityjazz.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/new1012redcatdandevin.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251010T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251010T200000 DTSTAMP:20260623T060019 CREATED:20250604T092515Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251014T152635Z UID:10000325-1760119200-1760126400@angelcityjazz.com SUMMARY:The Gathering\, a Tribute to Jesse Sharps + Chris Powe DESCRIPTION:Stephan Crump\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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://angelcityjazz.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/1010gatheringlacma.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251009T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251009T223000 DTSTAMP:20260623T060019 CREATED:20250528T081712Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251014T152428Z UID:10000324-1760040000-1760049000@angelcityjazz.com SUMMARY:West Coast Progressive Chamber Jazz with Matt Small & Motoko Honda DESCRIPTION:Stephan Crump\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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://angelcityjazz.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/october9sierramadremotokomatt.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250323T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250323T170000 DTSTAMP:20260623T060019 CREATED:20241230T040045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250122T182041Z UID:10000270-1742740200-1742749200@angelcityjazz.com SUMMARY:Piano Omakase: Satoko Fujii & Kappa Maki + Motoko Honda & Ben Davis DESCRIPTION:Stephan Crump\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuy TicketsSubmitting form\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPIANO OMAKASEDoors at 2:30pm \n\n\n\n3pm – Motoko Honda & Ben Davis \n\n\n\nMotoko Honda – pianoBen Davis – cello \n\n\n\n4pm – SatokoFujii & Kappa Maki \n\n\n\nSatoko Fujii – pianoKappa Maki – trumpet \n\n\n\n\n\nPianist and composer SATOKO FUJII\, “an improviser of rumbling intensity and generous restraint” (Giovanni Russonello\, New York Times)\, is one of the most original voices in jazz today.Japanese jazz trumpeter and composer KAPPA MAKI is internationally recognized for a unique musical vocabulary that blends jazz lyricism with extended techniques. \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. URL:https://angelcityjazz.com/event/satoko-fujii-kappa-maki-motoko-honda-ben-davis/ LOCATION:Maybeck Studio\, 1537 Euclid AVe\, Berkeley\, California\, 94708 CATEGORIES:2024 Angel City Jazz Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://angelcityjazz.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/March23forwebsite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250322T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250322T223000 DTSTAMP:20260623T060019 CREATED:20250122T013808Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250314T182007Z UID:10000271-1742673600-1742682600@angelcityjazz.com SUMMARY:Lucy Railton + Satoko Fujii & Kappa Maki DESCRIPTION:Stephan Crump\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuy Tickets\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFirst set \n\n\n\nSatoko Fujii – pianoKappa Maki – trumpet \n\n\n\nSecond setLucy Railton – cello & electronicsPresented by Black Editions and Angel City Arts \n\n\n\n\n\nLucy Railton presents a visceral live set drawing on music from her Modern Love release “Corner Dancer”\, bridging experimental electronic and electroacoustic practices with the conventions of new music\, employing a deep consideration of sound and its properties\, implementing cello and antiquated string instruments\, analog and digital synthesizers\, drum machines and voice—and exploring alternate tuning systems\, psychoacoustic phenomena\, and timbral control.Pianist and composer SATOKO FUJII\, “an improviser of rumbling intensity and generous restraint” (Giovanni Russonello\, New York Times)\, is one of the most original voices in jazz today.Japanese jazz trumpeter and composer KAPPA MAKI is internationally recognized for a unique musical vocabulary that blends jazz lyricism with extended techniques. URL:https://angelcityjazz.com/event/lucy-railton-satoko-fujii-kappa-maki/ LOCATION:2220 Arts + Archives\, 2220 Beverly Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90057\, United States CATEGORIES:2024 Angel City Jazz Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://angelcityjazz.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/322websiteimage.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241027T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241027T223000 DTSTAMP:20260623T060019 CREATED:20240612T091751Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241126T023802Z UID:10000113-1730059200-1730068200@angelcityjazz.com SUMMARY:Wayne Horvitz: Zony Mash + Electric Circus DESCRIPTION:Stephan Crump\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors at 7:30pm8pm – Zony Mash \n\n\n\nWayne Horvitz – Hammond B3Tim Young – guitarKeith Lowe – electric bassAndy Roth – drums \n\n\n\n9pm – Electric Circus \n\n\n\nTim Young – guitarKeith Lowe – electric bassAndy Roth – drumsAlex Noice – guitar Miller Wren – upright bassMotoko Honda – keysMikaela Elson – vocalsSarah Schoenbeck – bassoonMegan Shung – violin Leah Bowden – percussions Nicole McCabe – alto sax   Phillip Whack – bari sax Tatiana Tate – trumpetTravis Flournoy – live video \n\n\n\n\n\nOriginally the Tuesday night house band at the OK Hotel\, Zony Mash spent much of the ’90s and early aughts recording and touring the world. Created with the instrumentation of The Meters\, Zony Mash starts where they left off. \n\n\n\nElectric Circus is a large\, mostly electric ensemble that remixes classic soul\, funk\, and rock for the 21st century. Composer Wayne Horvitz uses “conduction” – in the tradition of Lawrence “Butch” Morris – utilizing brief riffs\, motifs\, and grooves culled from classic recordings by James Brown\, Sly and the Family Stone\, Willie Dixon\, Los Lobos\, Captain Beefheart\, Electric Miles Davis\, The Grateful Dead\, The Pointer Sisters\, Sun Ra\, The Bangles\, The Clash\, The Allman Brothers\, Parliament-Funkadelic\, and many\, many more. \n\n\n\n\n“Wayne Horvitz’s music remains multifaceted and transportable\, from the hinterlands of avant classical to down-home folksy charm\, from small group getups to large-ensemble blowouts.” \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\nWayne Horvitz\n\n\n\nRecipient of the 2019 American Prize in Orchestral Composition\, composer Wayne Horvitz performs extensively throughout Europe\, Japan\, and North America. In addition to creating work for his own ensembles\, he has created new work for The Kitchen\, BAM\, Seattle Symphony\, Berlin Jazz\, NOCCO\, Vienna Radio Orchestra\, Centrum\, and ACT\, among others. He has received awards from the MAP Fund\, McKnight Foundation\, the NEA\, Meet the Composer\, and The Shifting Foundation\, among others. \n\n\n\nNarrative works include pieces centered around the life of Joe Hill\, the story of the Everett Massacre\, and the poems of Richard Hugo. His installation work has been presented at Ft. Worden\, SAM\, and the Arizona State Museum of Art. He is the recipient of the 2016 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award. \n\n\n\nCollaborators include Robin Holcomb\, Bill Frisell\, Reggie Watts\, Butch Morris\, Alex Guy\, Ikue Mori\, George Lewis\, Steve Swallow\, Yukio Suzuki\, Billy Bang\, Carla Bley\, Eyvind Kang\, John Zorn (Naked City\, etc.)\, Bill Irwin\, Gus Van Sant\, Paul Taylor\, Beth Fleenor\, Rinde Eckert\, Yohei Saito\, Barbara Earl Thomas\, David Moss\, Carey Perloff\, Paul Taylor\, Dayna Hanson\, and Gus Van Sant. \n\n\n\nHe has produced recordings for the World Saxophone Quartet\, Human Feel\, Fontella Bass\, Marty Ehrlich\, John Adams\, Bill Frisell\, Robin Holcomb\, and Eddie Palmieri.https://www.waynehorvitz.com/ URL:https://angelcityjazz.com/event/wayneatredcat/ LOCATION:REDCAT at Disney Hall\, 631 W 2nd Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012\, United States CATEGORIES:2024 Angel City Jazz Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://angelcityjazz.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/MixCollage-12-Jun-2024-01-56-AM-9913.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241026T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241026T220000 DTSTAMP:20260623T060019 CREATED:20240701T082603Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241126T023637Z UID:10000119-1729965600-1729980000@angelcityjazz.com SUMMARY:Improvising [in] the West DESCRIPTION:Stephan Crump\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors at 5:30pm6 to 10pm – Improvising (in) the west \n\n\n\nJoshua White – pianoMichael Dessen – tromboneKaoru Mansour – voice & FXCorey Fogel – drumsAlex Cline – drumsWilfrido Terrazzas – fluteMason Moy – tubaDan Rosenboom – trumpetEllen Burr – fluteDanny Frankel – drumsKathryn Schulmeister – bassJoe Berardi – electronicsSteve Blum – KeyboardDevin Daniels – saxMargo Harms – vibraphoneWayne Peet – keyboardMarc Perez – tromboneAnders Swanson – bassCaleb Veazey – guitarAlicia Byer – clarinet  \n\n\n\n\n\nAngel City Jazz Festival and Vernacular: New Music join forces again to assemble some of our finest local musicians in a program of small ensembles engaging in spontaneous musical creation. \n\n\n\nOur first joint event in 2023 crossed a generational divide by combining veteran and emerging artists into duos and trios that were known only on the evening of the performance\, resulting in eight sets of extraordinary music over five hours. \n\n\n\nNot content to simply repeat our success\, this year we’re focusing on the creative topography of the West. A diverse group of musical artists are invited to contemplate and reflect\, as improvisers\, on some aspect of the West and their relationship to it. Please join us for an exciting evening of wide-open sonic exploration. URL:https://angelcityjazz.com/event/angelangelcityvernacular/ LOCATION:Artshare LA\, 801 E 4th Place\, Los Angeles\, 90013 CATEGORIES:2024 Angel City Jazz Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://angelcityjazz.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/MixCollage-01-Jul-2024-01-17-AM-591.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241025T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241025T223000 DTSTAMP:20260623T060019 CREATED:20240624T114511Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241126T023411Z UID:10000118-1729886400-1729895400@angelcityjazz.com SUMMARY:Flat Earth Society Orchestra DESCRIPTION:Stephan Crump\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors at 7:30pm8:00pm – FES 25th ANNIVERSARY TOUR \n\n\n\nGert-Jan Dreessen – drumsPeter Vandenberghe – piano & keyboadsKristof Roseeuw – double bassMaarten Flamand – guitarWim Segers – vibraphoneBart Mari – trumpetJon Birdsong – trumpetPeter Delannoye – tromboneMarc Meeuwissen – tromboneBerlinde Deman – tubaPeter Vermeersch – (bass)clarinet & electronixMartí Melià – (bass)clarinetBruno Vansina – bariton sax & fluitSylvain Debaisieux – alto saxMichel Mast – tenor sax \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nFES is touring North America with their new album THE ONE\, combined with a wide and wild selection of previous material from the FES planet\, a musical universe without boundaries or idiomatic rules. Unreliable\, but generous. challenging but instantly recognizable. Mostly instrumental\, never speechless\, always welcoming.  \n\n\n\n\n“Unearthly” \n– Jazzeera\n\n\n\n\n“Un choc auditif et sensoriel” \n– Le Matin\n\n\n\n\n“Unique craftmanship\, this must be Flemish” \n– The Palliter Journal\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\nFES\n\n\n\nThe Flat Earth Society Orchestra (FES) mixes the rich Northwest European brass band tradition with oddball topsy-turvy creativity. Taking Belgian whimsy to a logical\, irresistible extreme\, FES straddles the border between multi-color surrealism and savvy skill. \n\n\n\nComposer\, reed player\, producer\, and bandleader Peter Vermeersch\, co-piloted by pianist and composer Peter Vandenberghe\, have shaped their 15-piece orchestra into one of the most productive and thrilling bands of its kind. While Flat Earth Society’s compositions and arrangements betray 20th-century traditions—from jazz to rock\, exotica\, and contemporary music—they embody a decidedly forward-looking 21st-century spirit. \n\n\n\nQuick-witted\, effortlessly eccentric\, and always on the lookout for new challenges\, Flat Earth Society is that rare beast: a constantly evolving orchestra that is most in its natural environment at a live show. This performance of the Flat Earth Society celebrates the band’s 25th anniversary! \n\n\n\nhttps://flatearthsocietyorchestra.com/ URL:https://angelcityjazz.com/event/fes/ LOCATION:Artshare LA\, 801 E 4th Place\, Los Angeles\, 90013 CATEGORIES:2024 Angel City Jazz Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://angelcityjazz.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/MixCollage-24-Jun-2024-04-20-AM-9103.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241024T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241024T223000 DTSTAMP:20260623T060019 CREATED:20240615T143459Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241126T023233Z UID:10000115-1729801800-1729809000@angelcityjazz.com SUMMARY:Iseul Kim's Liberosis + Jenny Scheinman's All Species Parade DESCRIPTION:Stephan Crump\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors at 8:00pm8:30pm – Jenny Scheinman’s All Species ParadeJenny Scheinman – violinCarmen Staaf – pianoAdam Ratner – guitarTony Scherr – bassMark Ferber – drums \n\n\n\n9:45pm – Iseul Kim’s Liberosis \n\n\n\nIseul Kim – PianoFung Chern Hwei – ViolinArtyom Manukyan – CelloEmiliano Lasanky – BassAnthony Fung – Drums \n\n\n\n\n\nHaving traveled the world and experienced numerous cultures\, Iseul Kim has been influenced by unique musical styles her entire adult life. However\, she credits her exposure to Latin music in Argentina and Cuba as having the largest impact on her music. The immense capacity for emotional expression in this genre allows her to infuse the passions of her life’s past\, and its musical depth allows her to blend in her love of jazz. \n\n\n\n\n“Jenny Scheinman is extremely versatile\, able to play everything from deep roots Americana to the furthest reaches of free improv\, and imbues it all with emotion and clarity.”“ \n– Mike Bieniek\n\n\n\n\n“Jenny Scheinman leads an electrifying group of musicians…there is an emotional element to her playing that makes her music deeply satisfying.” \n– Wall Street Journal\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjKv2KpX2h8\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIseul Kim\n\n\n\nComposer\, pianist\, singer\, and world traveler Iseul Kim was born in Korea\, is based in NYC\, and graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor’s degree in Jazz Studies. \n\n\n\nCurrently located in NYC after earning a master’s degree at the New School\, she reveals her life stories and cultures through music that knows no limits. Having traveled the world and experienced numerous cultures\, she has been influenced by different musical styles her entire adult life. \n\n\n\nShe left Korea in 2011 and moved to the U.S.\, and her first trip to South America was in 2015. Since then\, she has been seeking a unique sound that later became her ‘signature sound’. She leads projects like Liberosis\, the Iseul Kim Trio\, and the 9-piece ensemble Two Voices\, influenced by world music and Korean traditional music. \n\n\n\nhttps://www.iseulmusic.com/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJenny Scheinman\n\n\n\nJenny Scheinman is a jazz violinist who has produced several critically acclaimed solo albums\, including 12 Songs\, which was named one of the Top Ten Albums of 2005 by The New York Times. She has played with Linda Perry\, Norah Jones\, Nels Cline\, Lou Reed\, Ani DiFranco\, Bruce Cockburn\, Aretha Franklin\, Lucinda Williams\, Bono\, Bill Frisell\, the Hot Club of San Francisco\, and Allison Miller. \n\n\n\nIn 2008\, Scheinman released a self-titled vocal album. She has also played with her friend\, Sean Lennon\, on the Late Show with David Letterman. Her playing is frequently used as a soundbed for NPR programming. Her album Mischief & Mayhem features guitarist Nels Cline\, drummer Jim Black\, and bassist Todd Sickafoose. \n\n\n\nShe grew up in Petrolia\, California\, a remote area of Humboldt County near Cape Mendocino. She is the niece of robotics pioneer Victor Scheinman and the granddaughter of Telford Taylor\, chief prosecutor at the United States war crimes trials at Nuremberg. \n\n\n\nhttps://www.jennyscheinman.com URL:https://angelcityjazz.com/event/jennyandiseulat2220/ LOCATION:2220 Arts + Archives\, 2220 Beverly Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90057\, United States CATEGORIES:2024 Angel City Jazz Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://angelcityjazz.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/MixCollage-15-Jun-2024-07-04-AM-2721.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241020T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241020T223000 DTSTAMP:20260623T060020 CREATED:20240620T120554Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241126T023058Z UID:10000116-1729454400-1729463400@angelcityjazz.com SUMMARY:Mark Dresser + Thollem McDonas + Patrick Shiroishi + Brandon Seabrook DESCRIPTION:Stephan Crump\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors open at 7:30pmFirst Set at 8:00pmpart 1 – Mark Dresser – s0l0 basspart 2- Thollem McDonas – solo piano and electronics \n\n\n\nSecond Set at 9:15pmpart 1 – Patrick Shiroishi – solo saxpart 2 – Brandon Seabrook – solo guitar & Banjo \n\n\n\n\n\nBrandon Seabrook is performing in support of his new solo album ‘Object on Unknown Function’ to be released on October 18 2024 on Pyroclastic Records.Mark Dresser is performing in support of his new solo album ‘In the Shadow of a Mad King’ recently released on Tzadik Records.Thollem  McDonas will be playing selections off his two new ESP-Disk releases Infinite Sum Game (solo piano) and Worlds In A Life (solo electric sextet). \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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMark Dresser\n\n\n\nMark Dresser is a Grammy-nominated\, internationally renowned bass player\, improviser\, composer\, and interdisciplinary collaborator. At the core of his music is an artistic obsession and commitment to expanding the sonic\, musical\, and expressive possibilities of the contrabass. He has recorded over one hundred forty CDs\, including three solo CDs and a DVD. \n\n\n\nFrom 1985 to 1994\, he was a member of Anthony Braxton’s Quartet\, which recorded nine CDs and was the subject of Graham Locke’s book Forces in Motion (Da Capo). He has also performed and recorded music with Ray Anderson\, Jane Ira Bloom\, Tim Berne\, Anthony Davis\, Dave Douglas\, Osvaldo Golijov\, Gerry Hemingway\, Bob Ostertag\, Joe Lovano\, Roger Reynolds\, Henry Threadgill\, Dawn Upshaw\, and John Zorn. \n\n\n\nDresser’s most recent and internationally acclaimed new music for jazz quintet\, Nourishments (2013)\, marks his re-immersion as a bandleader. Since 2007\, he has been deeply involved in telematic music performance and education. He was awarded a 2015 Shifting Foundation Award and a 2015 Doris Duke Impact Award. He is currently a Professor of Music at the University of California\, San Diego.“Calling contrabassist Mark Dresser a virtuoso is like saying Albert Einstein was good at math.” – San Diego City Timeshttps://mark-dresser.com/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBrandon Seabrook\n\n\n\nBrandon Seabrook is a NYC-based guitarist and banjoist whose music fuses a wide range of practices and traditions: punk rock\, jazz\, pop\, and metal. As a guitarist\, his work feeds off tactile sensations\, characterized by rapid tremolo picking and extreme physicality. Described by the New York Times as “a man apparently hellbent on earning the title of World’s Least Rustic Banjo Player\,” he has been devoted to transforming an instrument largely associated with country and bluegrass into a tool for rebellious exploration. \n\n\n\nAs a composer and bandleader\, Seabrook has released ten albums. His ensemble music leans on a wide range of variance: jump cuts\, improvisation\, humor\, and extreme dynamics. Rolling Stone Magazine noted\, “The fiercely dexterous musician has launched a number of bands combining serious chops with manic intensity and a left-field compositional vision.” Brandon is an accomplished solo artist\, named Best Guitarist in New York City by the Village Voice. His 2014 solo release\, “Slyphid Vitalizers\,” paired his 1920 Bacon and Day tenor banjo with the blasting beats of a 1980s Oberheim drum machine\, bridging epochs with ambient tranquility and brutal prog. He has presented his solo work at Pioneer Works\, Constellation\, Secret Project Robot\, NK Berlin\, Lima Jazz Festival\, The Smell\, The Stone\, ESS\, and Boston Hassle Fest. In October 2024\, he will release his new solo record\, “Object of Unknown Function.” \n\n\n\nHe has collaborated with Joey Arias\, Anthony Braxton\, Mike Watt\, Cecile McLorin Salvant\, David Byrne\, Ghost Train Orchestra\, Frank London\, Nels Cline\, and Ingrid Laubrock. He has been profiled in the New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, Premier Guitar\, Rolling Stone Magazine\, The Fretboard Journal\, Bandcamp Daily\, and The Wire. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrick Shiroishi\n\n\n\nPatrick Shiroishi is a Japanese-American multi-instrumentalist and composer based in Los Angeles who is perhaps best known for his extensive and incredibly intense work with the saxophone. Over the last decade\, he has established himself as one of the premier improvising musicians in Los Angeles\, playing solo and in numerous collaborative projects. Shiroishi may well be considered a foundational player in the city’s vast musical expanse. \n\n\n\nHe has presented work and performed at the Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, the Natural History Museum\, and the International Museum of Surgical Sciences. Shiroishi has toured around the world in various solo and band configurations\, including The Armed\, contemporary classical ensemble Wild Up\, and Upsilon Acrux.https://www.patrickshiroishi.com/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThollem McDonas\n\n\n\nThollem is a pianist\, keyboardist\, composer\, improviser\, singer-songwriter\, activist\, author\, and teacher. He has toured throughout North America and Europe as an itinerant artist for two decades\, performing\, teaching\, and collaborating in myriad situations across the idiomatic spectrum. Thollem is known in concentric circles as an acoustic piano player in the free jazz and post-classical worlds\, as the lead vocalist for the Italian agit-punk band Tsigoti\, and as an electronic keyboardist through a multitude of projects. His lifelong interest has been to work with people from all walks of life\, bringing artists and communities together in ways that may create something uniquely valuable to everyone involved. He is currently focused primarily on his multimedia collaboration with New Mexican visual artist ACVilla\, his solo piano work Infinite-Sum Game\, and workshops on the collaborative process.Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area\, Thollem began playing the piano\, composing\, and improvising as a child\, absorbing the sounds of his culturally diverse upbringing. As an adult\, he has continued to incorporate the breadth of music he has experienced on his extensive travels. Since 2005\, he has played over 3\,000 concerts throughout North America and Europe\, releasing more than 100 albums on 26 different vanguard labels. \n\n\n\nA very brief cross-section of his many collaborators includes William Parker\, Pauline Oliveros\, Stefano Scodanibbio\, Nels Cline\, Sara Lund\, Rob Mazurek\, Michael Wimberly\, Mike Watt\, and Carmina Escobar. Thollem is a published author on art\, politics\, and his travels in NewMusicBox\, The Anthology of Essays On Deep Listening\, Full Moon Magazine (Prague)\, and First American Art Magazine. \n\n\n\nhttps://www.thollem.com/ URL:https://angelcityjazz.com/event/foursolosets/ LOCATION:Artshare LA\, 801 E 4th Place\, Los Angeles\, 90013 CATEGORIES:2024 Angel City Jazz Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://angelcityjazz.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/MixCollage-20-Jun-2024-05-20-AM-1668.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241019T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241019T223000 DTSTAMP:20260623T060020 CREATED:20240611T100604Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241126T022828Z UID:10000112-1729369800-1729377000@angelcityjazz.com SUMMARY:Joy Guidry's Amen + Deron Johnson's Free to Dance DESCRIPTION:Stephan Crump\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors at 8:00pm8:30pm- Deron Johnson’s Free to DanceDeron Johnson – piano & keysPaul Bryan – bassMax Jaffe – drums & electronicsStewart Cole – trumpet & modular synth \n\n\n\n9:45pm – Joy Guidry’s Amen \n\n\n\nJoy Guidry – Bassoon\, poetry\, electronicsScott Li – synth\, electronics\, violinMekala Sessions – Drums \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“In AMEN\, there is a lot of experimentation with different forms of southern Black American music. I wanted to lean heavily on my Texas\, Louisiana\, and Creole roots in this project.” \n– Joy Guidry\n\n\n\n\n“In my time with Miles Davis\, the quality that was most impactful for me was the concept of always moving forward as a musician.”“ \n– Deron Johnson\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFree To Dance by Deron Johnson\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoy Guidry\n\n\n\nRadical self-love\, compassion\, laughter\, and the drive to amplify Black artmakers and noisemakers comprise the core of bassoonist and composer Joy Guidry’s work. Her performances have been hailed by The San Diego Tribune as “lyrical and haunting…hair-raising and unsettling.” Joy was born in 1995 in Houston\, Texas\, into a creative family that played a big part in who she has become today. \n\n\n\nA versatile improviser and a composer of experimental\, daring new works that embody a deep love of storytelling\, Joy’s music channels their inner child in honor of her ancestors and predecessors. Joy holds a bachelor’s degree in Bassoon Performance from the Peabody Conservatory and a Graduate Performance Diploma from the Mannes School of Music. \n\n\n\nShe has presented her original work at The Kitchen\, Redcat\, and has collaborated with the Dance Centre Kenya Ballet Orchestra\, International Contemporary Ensemble\, and Alarm Will Sound. She has been commissioned by The National Sawdust\, Long Beach Opera\, JACK Quartet\, and the I&I Foundation. \n\n\n\nJoy has been featured at the La Biennale di Venezia\, A’Larme Festival\, Cologne Jazz Week\, Spoleto Festival USA\, and many more. In addition\, Joy Guidry is the winner of the 2021 Berlin Prize for Young Artists.https://www.guidrybassoon.com/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDeron Johnson\n\n\n\nDeron Johnson is an award-winning pianist and composer with decades of success as a recording and touring artist. He is now scoring original compositions for film\, television\, and narrative podcasts. \n\n\n\nIn 1991\, Johnson was discovered by legendary trumpeter Miles Davis. Johnson joined Davis’ band\, playing keyboards on Davis’ final record\, Doo-Bop (1992)\, as well as on three European tours and two American tours. A rising star in the jazz community\, Johnson then toured and recorded extensively with bassist Stanley Clarke and alto saxophonist David Sanborn. He would go on to tour and record with artists across a broad range of sounds and styles\, including Alanis Morissette and Seal. \n\n\n\nFollowing a long and successful career as a touring and recording artist\, Johnson was hired as Head of Music for TWC in 2013. There\, he composed original music for films and trailers for award-winning projects\, including Silver Linings Playbook (2012)\, Tulip Fever\, August: Osage County (2013)\, and The Founder (2017). \n\n\n\nIn 2019\, QCode Media\, an emerging podcast and digital media company\, hired Johnson as Head of Music. Since then\, he has composed and recorded original scores for dozens of narrative fiction podcasts\, including Hank The Cowdog (2020) starring Matthew McConaughey\, Edith! (2021) starring Rosamund Pike\, and The Prophecy (2022) starring Kerry Washington and Laurence Fishburne. \n\n\n\nJohnson’s latest feature film score\, The Prank (2022)\, is a dark comedy starring the legendary Rita Moreno. \n\n\n\nhttps://www.deronjohnsonmusic.com/ URL:https://angelcityjazz.com/event/joyandderonat2220/ LOCATION:2220 Arts + Archives\, 2220 Beverly Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90057\, United States CATEGORIES:2024 Angel City Jazz Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://angelcityjazz.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/MixCollage-11-Jun-2024-02-55-AM-2757.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241018T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241018T223000 DTSTAMP:20260623T060020 CREATED:20240622T082016Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241126T022646Z UID:10000117-1729281600-1729290600@angelcityjazz.com SUMMARY:Diego Gaeta + Yafeu Tyhimba DESCRIPTION:Stephan Crump\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 – Yafeu Tyhimba \n\n\n\nPremiere of Dystopia\, a new piece commissioned by the Los Angeles Jazz SocietyEnnis Harris – alto sax/fluteJordan De Tiege – tenor saxRemee Ashley – trombone/bass tromboneKaitlin Miller – harpAlexis Angulo – vocoder/synthesizerSamuel Reid – synthesizer/pianoYafeu Tyhimba – upright bassTrevor Zemtseff – drums/percussions9:00pm – Diego GaetaDiego Gaeta – piano\, synth\, percussionBryan Baker – flute\, tenor saxMekala Session – drumsCaleb Buchanan – bassJimetta Rose – vocalsSpecial Guests TBA \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\nYafeu Tyhimba has been selected as the recepient of the 2024 LAJS Jeff Clayton New Note Award and will premiere his commissioned piece Dystopia at this event.Diego Gaeta will perform material from his recent acclaimed album Fearlessly Accessing The Divine Spirit Of Freedom From Here On OutGaeta recorded the initial ideas for this album by himself after experiencing a burst of creativity during the lockdown of 2020\, in the aftermath of a season of protests in Los Angeles\, on a piano at his home in El Sereno. “I was constantly not in tune with myself\, always awaiting outrage and tragedy in a very unstable world. However\, hitting the streets in support of various ongoing pandemic community actions felt necessary and it marked a point in time that ushered in large societal changes.The weight of that era made me feel allergic to making art at the time. All of these ideas came after that period\, expressing my reflections subconsciously. I remember that the ideas came in a short amount of time\, and then they developed.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymbo2rQW5Ig\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDiego Gaeta\n\n\n\nDiego Gaeta is a keyboardist and producer born and raised in Los Angeles whose work blends and connects a sonic futurist approach that is informed by world folk music traditions of sacred improvisation. He recently released his debut album as a leader\, titled “Fearlessly Accessing the Divine Spirit of Freedom From Here On Out” on Preference Records. Other releases include: “In Float” (with Lionmilk) on Leaving Records\, “Una Luz Naranja” (with Carlos Niño) on Anandamide\, and “This Could Be Our Every Day” which was self-released. He also recently appeared on two tracks from the Andre 3000 release “New Blue Sun”. https://www.instagram.com/clubdiegoo/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYafeu Tyhimba\n\n\n\nBassist\, composer\, and vocalist Yafeu Tyhimba is an artist who loves all musical styles. Hailing from Oakland\, California\, he mixes styles of jazz with R&B and funk. He started playing upright bass at 12 years old\, studying with great jazz and pop musicians such as Bennie Maupin\, Ndugu Chancler\, and Patrice Rushen. \n\n\n\nAt 17 years old\, he was accepted into USC for Jazz Studies bass and began a whole new chapter of his knowledge studying with greats like Darek Oles\, Alphonse Johnson\, Vincent Mendoza\, Frank Ticheli\, and Jae Deal. While in LA\, he has garnered his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees and is now working on his Doctorate. \n\n\n\nHe has played with several incredible musicians including Jeff Lorber\, Tony Austin\, Nick Smith\, Marvin Smith\, Donald Dean\, and Brian Hargrove. He is currently writing and producing a new album and constantly creating content for his social media platforms.https://www.instagram.com/thebassboy/ URL:https://angelcityjazz.com/event/diegoyafeuworldstage/ LOCATION:The World Stage\, 4321 Degnan Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90008\, United States CATEGORIES:2024 Angel City Jazz Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://angelcityjazz.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/1018worldstage.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241017T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241017T223000 DTSTAMP:20260623T060020 CREATED:20240615T132622Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241126T022511Z UID:10000114-1729195200-1729204200@angelcityjazz.com SUMMARY:Mauricio Morales + Jeff Denson & Romain Pilon Trio featuring Clarence Penn DESCRIPTION:Stephan Crump\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors at 7:30pm8:00pm – Jeff Denson & Romain Pilon Trio featuring Clarence Penn \n\n\n\nJeff Denson – bassRomain Pilon – guitarClarence Penn – drums \n\n\n\n9:00pm – Mauricio Morales‘ Seven Days CD Release Party \n\n\n\nMauricio Morales – bassAndrew Renfroe– guitarLuca Mendoza – PianoRoni Kaspi – drums Ido Meshulam – tromboneEdmar Colón – Sax \n\n\n\n\n\nMauricio Morales is celebrating the release of his new record ‘Seven Days’ which will be availabel for sale at thie event. \n\n\n\n\n“Double bassist Jeff Denson capitalizes on his considerable gifts as an improviser\, performer and sonic trailblazer.” \n– Downbeat\n\n\n\n\n“Clarence is a charismatic player\, with great dynamic range and drama and musicality.”  \n– Maria Schneider\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\nMauricio Morales\n\n\n\nMorales has been a rising force as a player and bandleader/project leader for the past several years\, but his formative musical life goes back to his picking up the electric bass at 13 years old and the upright bass six years later. With the noted artist Tere Lojero as his mother and a music aficionado father to guide his interests\, Morales discovered a passion for writing and manifesting his own music. Working on the East Coast scene after heading to Berklee School of Music in 2012\, Morales migrated westward to Los Angeles in 2018. \n\n\n\nMorales launched what has become a diverse discography with the sometimes fusion-tinged tracks of 2021’s Luna\, followed by the improvisation-leaning trio album Eclipse in 2022 and The Endless Ride last year\, in 2023. The pop resonances and qualities on that album\, including vocals\, are in marked contrast with the almost entirely acoustic sextet context of Seven Days. \n\n\n\nOf the variety between projects\, Morales explains\, “I want to explore different areas of my artistry. My first record had a very youthful essence to it. I wanted to put everything within seven songs–my writing\, my playing\, and everything else. And then the second record was the complete opposite because it is completely stripped down.” With The Endless Ride\, he explains\, “I wanted to also experiment with all my influences of when I was younger because when I started playing music\, I wasn’t really listening to jazz at all.” \n\n\n\nClearly\, from the evidence of Seven Days\, Morales is by now deeply steeped in jazz\, as a player and composer\, and expertly equipped to create his own new vision within the genre. In terms of influences on his writing\, especially in a discernible “jazz” mode\, he points to such prominent artists as Aaron Parks\, Brad Mehldau\, Brian Blade\, and especially Pat Metheny. “Even though his music can be complex\,” Morales says of Metheny’s music\, “there’s something very accessible about it that I’ve always resonated with since before I played jazz.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJeff Denson\n\n\n\nJeff Denson is an award-winning bassist\, vocalist\, and composer who has released 16 albums as a leader or co-leader and toured extensively throughout the US\, Canada\, and Europe with both his own groups and others at some of the world’s most prestigious venues and festivals such as the Village Vanguard\, Birdland\, The Kennedy Center\, JVC Jazz Festival Paris\, Montreal Jazz Festival\, Berlin Jazz Festival\, and SFJazz\, among many others. \n\n\n\nJeff has worked with some of jazz’s finest artists such as Brian Blade\, Joe Lovano\, Chris Potter\, Mike Stern\, Charles McPherson\, Billy Childs\, Jane Ira Bloom\, Craig Handy\, Ingird Jensen\, Dave Douglas\, Walter Smith III\, Kendrick Scott\, Rachel Z\, Omar Hakim\, Gerald Cleaver\, Anat Cohen\, Warren Wolf\, Leo Genovese\, Etienne Charles\, Edward Simon\, Paul McCandless\, Cuong Vu\, Ralph Alessi\, Dan Weiss\, Lionel Loueke\, Mark Turner\, Paul Hanson\, George Cables\, Romain Pilon\, Mimi Fox\, and many others\, and had an ongoing relationship with the legendary Lee Konitz for over a decade until his passing in 2020. \n\n\n\nJeff’s work has been reviewed in many of the world’s leading periodicals including The New York Times\, Washington Post\, San Francisco Chronicle\, along with many more international periodicals\, and has been ranked in the DownBeat Rising Star Critic’s Poll 13 times in the Bass\, Electric Bass and Male Vocalist categories\, and was the First Place Winner of the 69th Annual DownBeat Magazine Rising Star Critic’s Poll for “Electric Bass”. \n\n\n\nJeff is the Founder and President of Ridgeway Arts\, Inc.\, a 501c3 arts nonprofit organization and the Dean of Instruction at the California Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley.https://www.jeffdenson.com/ URL:https://angelcityjazz.com/event/mauricioandjeff/ LOCATION:Artshare LA\, 801 E 4th Place\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90013\, United States CATEGORIES:2024 Angel City Jazz Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://angelcityjazz.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/MixCollage-15-Jun-2024-05-42-AM-2295.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241013T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241013T223000 DTSTAMP:20260623T060020 CREATED:20240531T095213Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241126T022221Z UID:10000110-1728851400-1728858600@angelcityjazz.com SUMMARY:Elsa Nilsson's Pulses + Sasha Berliner DESCRIPTION:Stephan Crump\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors at 8:00pm8:30pm – Elsa Nilsson’s PulsesElsa Nilsson – Flutes and FXSantiago Leibson – PianoMarty Kenney – BassRodrigo Recabarren – Drums \n\n\n\n9:45pm – Sasha Berliner \n\n\n\nJonathan Pinson – drumsLogan Kane – bassJavi Santiago – piano/keys Sasha Berliner – vibraphone and MalletStation  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Naturally percussive\, with an ever-expanding grasp of harmony and counterpoint […] vibraphonist Sasha Berliner is one of the most exciting voices in jazz today.” \n– Andrew Bradbury\, Stetson Stories\n\n\n\n\n“[Elsa Nilsson’s Pulses} is (without question) the best spoken-word/jazz album I’ve heard in many\, MANY years”“ \n– Dick Metcalf\, editor\, Contemporary Fusion Reviews and avant garde\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\nSasha Berliner\n\n\n\n Described as a “young mallet master” by JazzTimes\, Sasha Berliner is an award-winning vibraphonist and composer based in both the NYC and Los Angeles areas. The Downbeat Critics Poll #1 Rising Star Vibraphonist and Jazz Journalists’ Association runner-up for Vibraphonist of the Year has notably shared the stage for recent projects with Christian McBride\, Tyshawn Sorey\, Marcus Gilmore\, Justin Brown\, and Cecile McLorin Salvant. She leads her own quintet for international touring. \n\n\n\nBerliner is also a faculty member at the University of California\, Irvine\, and a frequent lecturing guest at the California Institute for the Arts\, both for jazz ensemble and composition courses. She recently released her award-winning sophomore album “Onyx” (2022) through JMI Recordings. Glide Magazine described it as her “vigorous\, unabashedly avant-garde sophomore recording […] finding the budding\, San Francisco-born vibraphonist and composer in a fiery\, dense\, and genre-bending posture.” The magazine urges listeners to “add Berliner to the new vanguard of contemporary artists that are reshaping jazz with unconventional compositional approaches.” \n\n\n\nHer third studio album\, an electronic-acoustic hybrid project entitled “Fantome\,” is slated for release in the Spring of 2025.https://www.sashaberlinermusic.com/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nElsa Nilsson’s Pulses\n\n\n\nAs the recipient of the 2022 CMA New Jazz Works grant\, Elsa Nilsson – Band Of Pulses explores the intersection between spoken language and jazz. “Pulses” uses the voice of Maya Angelou reading “On The Pulse Of Morning” as the foundation for compositions and improvisations\, highlighting the intrinsic musicality of her voice by supporting and amplifying the harmonic\, rhythmic\, and melodic content. In their deep dive\, they found clear echoes of Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane in her phrasing\, the blues implicitly and explicitly expressed in her pitches\, and an intense sense of groove in her rhythms. The ethos of this piece is to highlight that connection and bring the beauty of jazz as communication to the forefront. \n\n\n\nNilsson teaches Rhythmic Analysis and Socially Engaged Artistry at The New School\, in addition to her work as a bandleader and collaborator. Paul Rauch of All About Jazz has said about her: “She is the logical choice to provide a next step for her instrument in the world of jazz and improvised music.” \n\n\n\nLeibson is one of the most sought-after pianists in the New York contemporary jazz scene and has played multiple solo recitals at Carnegie Hall as part of the “Sophia Rossoff Presents” series. Recabarren has worked with artists such as Guillermo Klein\, Brad Shepik\, Melissa Aldana\, Camila Meza\, Claudia Acuña\, and many more. He and Elsa developed this piece together. Kenney is an equally creative and sought-after bass player\, and together this band weaves intricate invitations to view jazz in a fresh light. \n\n\n\nhttps:/elsanilssonmusic.com/ URL:https://angelcityjazz.com/event/elsa-nilssons-pulses-sasha-berliner/ LOCATION:2220 Arts + Archives\, 2220 Beverly Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90057\, United States CATEGORIES:2024 Angel City Jazz Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://angelcityjazz.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/MixCollage-31-May-2024-02-33-AM-1831.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241012T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241012T223000 DTSTAMP:20260623T060020 CREATED:20240530T101243Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241126T022020Z UID:10000109-1728763200-1728772200@angelcityjazz.com SUMMARY:Kris Davis Trio + Steve Lehman & Garden of Klōns DESCRIPTION:Stephan Crump\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors at 7:30pm8pm – Steve Lehman & Garden of Klōns \n\n\n\nSteve Lehman – alto saxophone and effects pedalsCory Smythe – augmented pianoJonathan Pinson – drum set and sensory percussion \n\n\n\n9pm – Kris Davis Trio \n\n\n\nKris Davis – pianoRobert Hurst – bassJohnathan Blake – drums \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“[Steve Lehman] is one of the transforming figures of early 21st-century jazz” \n– The Guardian\n\n\n\n\n“Ms. Davis …] is elevating jazz beyond the limiting continuum of accessibility and abstraction…It’s music that is defining its own terms rather than shoehorning itself into categories like tradition and avant garde.“ \n– The Wall Street Journal\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\nKris Davis\n\n\n\nKris Davis is a Grammy award-winning pianist and composer described by The New York Times as a beacon for “deciding where to hear jazz [in New York] on a given night.” Davis has released 24 recordings as a leader or co-leader and collaborated with artists such as Terri Lyne Carrington\, Dave Holland\, John Zorn\, Craig Taborn\, Ingrid Laubrock\, Tyshawn Sorey\, and Esperanza Spalding. \n\n\n\nShe was named a 2021 Doris Duke Artist alongside Wayne Shorter and Danilo Perez\, Pianist of the Year by DownBeat magazine in 2022 and 2020\, and Pianist and Composer of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association in 2021. In 2019\, Kris Davis’ “Diatom Ribbons” was named jazz album of the year by both the New York Times and the NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll. The album draws from the musical worlds of free improvisation\, spoken word\, electronica\, mainstream jazz\, R&B\, and rock. \n\n\n\nIn September 2023\, Davis released “Diatom Ribbons – Live at the Village Vanguard\,” featuring Grammy winner and NEA Jazz Master Terri Lyne Carrington on drums\, Julian Lage on guitar\, Val Jeanty on turntables and electronics\, and Trevor Dunn on bass. \n\n\n\nDavis is the Associate Program Director of Creative Development at the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice and the founder of Pyroclastic Records. She is also a Steinway Artist.http://www.krisdavis.net \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSteve Lehman\n\n\n\nDescribed as “one of the transforming figures of early 21st-century jazz” by The Guardian and as a “state-of-the-art musical thinker” by The New York Times\, Steve Lehman is a composer\, performer\, educator\, and scholar who works across a broad spectrum of experimental musical idioms. \n\n\n\nLehman’s pieces for large orchestra and chamber ensembles have been performed by the American Composers Orchestra\, International Contemporary Ensemble\, So Percussion\, JACK Quartet\, and the PRISM Saxophone Quartet. His recent recording\, “The People I Love\,” was cited as one of the “Top 10 Jazz Albums” of 2019 by NPR Music\, Rolling Stone\, The Los Angeles Times\, and The New York Times. His previous recordings include “Sélébéyone” (2016)\, “Mise en Abîme” (NPR #1 Jazz Album of 2014)\, and “Travail\, Transformation & Flow” (NY Times #1 Jazz Album of 2009). \n\n\n\nThe recipient of a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2014 Doris Duke Artist Award\, Lehman is an alto saxophonist who has performed and recorded nationally and internationally with his own ensembles and with those led by Anthony Braxton\, Vijay Iyer\, George Lewis\, Bennie Maupin\, Jason Moran\, Georgia-Anne Muldrow\, Meshell Ndegeocello\, Tyshawn Sorey\, and High Priest of Antipop Consortium\, among many others. \n\n\n\nHe has taught undergraduate courses at Columbia University and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris and is currently a professor of music at the California Institute of the Arts near Los Angeles. \n\n\n\nhttps://www.stevelehman.com/ URL:https://angelcityjazz.com/event/krisandsteveatredcat/ LOCATION:REDCAT at Disney Hall\, 631 W 2nd Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012\, United States CATEGORIES:2024 Angel City Jazz Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://angelcityjazz.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/krisdavisstevelehman.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241011T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241011T223000 DTSTAMP:20260623T060020 CREATED:20240603T103510Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241126T021645Z UID:10000111-1728669600-1728685800@angelcityjazz.com SUMMARY:Otmaro Ruiz Quartet + Simon Metzger Quartet DESCRIPTION:Stephan Crump\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 – The Simon Metzger QuartetThe winning ensemble of our 2024 Young Artist Competition.Simon Metzger – DrumsetKai Suzuki – Tenor Saxophone Isaiah Harwood – PianoQuinn Sims – Bass \n\n\n\n7:00pm- Otmaro Ruiz Quartet \n\n\n\nOtmaro Ruiz – pianoClarence Penn – drums Sezin Ahmet Turkmenoglu – bassKatisse Buckingham – sax/flute \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Ruiz [coming up] with a stunning improvisation that was both a mini-history of jazz keyboard and a personal expression of his own expansive musical eclecticism.“ \n– Don Heckman\, LA Times\n\n\n\nThe Angel City Jazz Young Artist Competition is an avenue for young Jazz musicians in the greater Los Angeles area to create and collaborate with one another in an effort to expand upon the traditional concepts of Jazz composition/arrangement\, improvisation and ensemble performance. \n\n\n\nMore info here \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\nOtmaro Ruiz\n\n\n\nConsidered one of the most important jazz pianists in the current scene\, venezuelan Otmaro Ruiz is known for his versatility and virtuosity. After working intensively in Venezuela with artists such as Soledad Bravo and Ilan Chester\, Otmaro moves to Los Angeles in 1989 to join the group of great names of the jazz world such as Alex Acuña\, Justo Almario y Abraham Laboriel\, with whom still collaborates in diverse projects. \n\n\n\nWith an intense musical career\, filled with concerts\, workshops and recordings worldwide\, Otmaro worked for 5 years with Dianne Reeves as a pianist and musical director. During this period\, Otmaro participated in the recording project of her CD “In The Moment – Live in Concert”\, which won the Grammy Award 2001. In that same year\, Alex Acuna’s album “Acuarelas de Tambores\, also with Otmaro’s collaboration\, was nominated to a Grammy. \n\n\n\nHis collaboration with Weston Woods Studios for the Scholastic Series of animated children videos have won important recognitions like the “2004 Audie Award” in the Children Production Category and Bronze Remi at the 2004 Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival (for the Soundtrack of “Chato and The Party Animals”); Otmaro also received a Life Time Special Award “International Exposure” from the Venezuelan National Artist’s Institute (for outstanding career in a foreign country). \n\n\n\nIn 2012\, Otmaro was awarded an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Musical Arts from Shepherd University. His work as an arranger was recognized by the American Academy of Recording Arts with a 2016 Grammy Nomination and a double Latin Grammy Award Nomination in 2019. https://www.otmaro.com/ URL:https://angelcityjazz.com/event/otmaroruizatlacma/ LOCATION:LACMA\, 5905 Wilshire Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90036\, United States CATEGORIES:2024 Angel City Jazz Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://angelcityjazz.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/MixCollage-03-Jun-2024-03-09-AM-6806.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231029T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231029T230000 DTSTAMP:20260623T060020 CREATED:20230519T184136Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T054937Z UID:10000068-1698609600-1698620400@angelcityjazz.com SUMMARY:Todd Cochran Trio TC3 with Bennie Maupin + Billy Mohler Quartet's ULTRAVIOLET CD Release Party DESCRIPTION:Stephan Crump\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTicketsSubmitting form\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFirst Set: Billy Mohler Quartet ‘s ULTRAVIOLET CD Release PartyBilly Mohler – bassMark Turner – tenor saxShane Endsley – trumpetJonathan Pinson – drums \n\n\n\nSecond Set: Todd Cochran Trio TC3 with Special Guest Bennie MaupinTodd Cochran – pianoJohn Leftwich – bassLyndon Rochelle – drumsSpecial Guest:Bennie Maupin – flute/clarinets \n\n\n\nPianist and composer Todd Cochran sees jazz as a profoundly communicative musical expression. Rooted in tradition\, robustly universal\, and inclusive\, his art provides an attractive meeting ground where viewpoints freely interact. In performance\, his acoustic trio\, TC3\, joined with a special guest appearance by Bennie Maupin\, explores a nuanced\, poetic musical language that engages an audience in an energizing creative dialogue about the crescendos of uncharted change in the world. Cochran’s music embraces the canon and is enlarged through the lens of contemporary culture\, critical social concerns\, and the need for new ideas in these times of overlapping anxieties. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Cochran is historically grounded\, extravagantly pianistic\, and instinctively lyrical. His sense of style is so personal and deep it becomes art in itself.” \nTom Conrad\, Stereophine\n\n\n\n\n“Then Again\, Here and Now isn’t just a collection of tracks meant to reintroduce Cochran to the jazz audience – it’s a narrative arc telling the story of the music that inspired Cochran to become the artist he is.”  \nMichael Toland – The Big Takeover\n\n\n\n\n“Mohler creates jazz music that\, despite the seriousness and sincerity of the craft\, manages to remain engaging and–yes–fun.” \nDownbeat\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\nTodd Cochran\n\n\n\nThe more avenues an artist can draw upon the more original their music will tend to sound. With years devoted to classical music study followed by the tutelage of American jazz masters\, pianist and composer Todd Cochran’s music reflects a wide-ranging musical palette. In his art he has continued to build upon this foundation\, incorporating diverse musical influences from the traditions of African and Asian diaspora\, global pop\, and contemporary art music culture. Todd’s happenstance was to grow up in San Francisco during the civil rights era\, a transformational time in America’s story. The city was multi-dimensional and the echoes of being a child of the cultural revolution have never left him. \n\n\n\nTodd’s work as a pianist\, composer and electronic musician has significantly influenced others. A short list of his collaborations includes Herbie Hancock\, Peter Gabriel\, Phil Collins\, Maya Angelou\, Joan Armatrading\, Freddie Hubbard\, Stanley Clarke\, Stewart Copeland\, Hubert Laws\, Jeff Beck\, Burt Bacharach\, Stan Getz\, Natalie Cole\, Neil Diamond\, and Rod Stewart.https://toddcochran.com/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBennie Maupin\n\n\n\nBennie Maupin was born in 1940 in Detroit\, Michigan. He has since become an internationally recognized master of many different wind instruments. He got his musical start by playing clarinet\, flute\, and tenor sax. He eventually gravitated towards the flute and bass clarinet. He has led a long and glittering career\, both in NYC and on the West Coast. His personal style has ranged far\, from the avant-garde\, to funk\, to straight ahead and third stream. He gained early notoriety as a member of Herbie Hancock’s Mwandishi Sextet\, and would go on to collaborate with Herbie on a number of projects over his career. He has released numerous albums as a leader\, including ‘Jewel in the Lotus’\, and ‘Slow Traffic To the Left’. He has collaborated with the likes of Miles Davis\, Jack Dejohnette\, Mike Clark\, Lee Morgan\, Andrew Hill\, McCoy Tyner and Lenny White.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBilly Mohler\n\n\n\nBilly Mohler is an exploratory jazz bassist who has also amassed wide-ranging credits in the pop world as a GRAMMY-winning writer\, producer\, multi-instrumentalist and session player\, working with Dolly Parton\, Macy Gray\, Lady Gaga\, Nile Rogers\, Sia\, Awolnation\, Mavis Staples\, Kelly Clarkson\, Steven Tyler\, Jon Brion and a host of others. A graduate of Berklee College of Music\, Mohler attended the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz as one of only five students\, studying with Herbie Hancock\, Wayne Shorter and other luminaries. \n\n\n\nOn October 13\, Billy will release Ultraviolet via Dayna Stephen’s Contagious Music label. As his most probing release to date\, Ultraviolet is Mohler’s third album capturing the evolving vernacular of his formidable quartet with trumpeter Shane Endsley\, drummer Nate Wood and reedist Chris Speed. Mohler creates “jazz music that\, despite the seriousness and sincerity of the craft\, manages to remain engaging and–yes–fun.” (Downbeat Magazine.) The mixture of Mohler’s pop sensibilities\, honed as a 20-year veteran of the Los Angeles studio scene\, meshed with a forward exploration and musical curiosity shaped by his tenure at the Thelonious Monk Institute under luminaries Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter. \n\n\n\nhttp://www.billymohler.com/ URL:https://angelcityjazz.com/event/tc3-with-hubert-laws-the-billy-mohler-quartet/ LOCATION:REDCAT at Disney Hall\, 631 W 2nd Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012\, United States CATEGORIES:2023 Angel City Jazz Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://angelcityjazz.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Collage-Maker-03-Oct-2023-03-53-PM-6303.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231028T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231028T230000 DTSTAMP:20260623T060020 CREATED:20230519T142806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T054944Z UID:10000067-1698523200-1698534000@angelcityjazz.com SUMMARY:Nicole Mitchell's JBM: Images Beyond + Next Jazz Legacy Showcase DESCRIPTION:Stephan Crump\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTicketsSubmitting form\n\n\n\npresented in partnership with \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFirst Set: Next Jazz Legacy ShowcaseAnais Maviel – voiceMilena Casado – trumpetNeta Raanan – saxophoneAnastassiya Petrova – KeysKalia Vandever – tromboneKeyanna Hutchinson – guitarAnna Butters – bassIvanna Cuesta – drums \n\n\n\nSecond Set: Nicole Mitchell’s JBM: Images BeyondArtwork and Poetry by Joan Beard MitchellDramatic Performance by actor/vocalist MaiaMusic composed by Nicole MitchellNicole Mitchell – fluteGanavya Doraiswami – voiceJeff Parker – guitarMaggie Parkins – celloJeff Gauthier – violinAnna Butters – bassRajna Swaminathan – percussion \n\n\n\n\n\nNext Jazz Legacy Showcase\, co-presented with New Music USA:Join us for performances by artists selected for the second cohort of Next Jazz Legacy – a new national apprenticeship program for women and non-binary improvisers in jazz for a more inclusive jazz future. Next Jazz Legacy is a partnership between New Music USA and the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice with support from the Mellon Foundation and Joe & Nancy Walker. \n\n\n\nNicole Mitchell’s JBM: Images Beyond is a theatrical concert by award winning flutist/composer Nicole Mitchell that celebrates the unrevealed afro-surrealist folk art and poetry of her mother\, Joan Beard Mitchell\, in the 40th anniversary of her death. Joan Beard Mitchell was born and raised on Chicago’s southside; her works show an aesthetic connection to the experimentalism and afro-surrealist ideals within the Chicago Black Arts Movement. Her artistic development reached merit in Syracuse\, New York and she continued to create in isolation after moving to Orange County\, California\, where she met her abrupt death in 1983.  \n\n\n\nIn Images Beyond\, JBM’s words are organized into a dramatic expression played by actor/vocalist Maia and interwoven with original music by Nicole Mitchell\, in an environment that visually features JBM’s paintings\, watercolors and graphic art. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nafro-surrealist folk art by Nicole’s mother\, Joan Beard Mitchell \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNicole Mitchell\n\n\n\nNicole M. Mitchell is an award-winning creative flutist\, composer\, bandleader and educator. She is perhaps best known for her work as a flutist\, having developed a unique improvisational language and having been repeatedly awarded “Top Flutist of the Year” by Downbeat Magazine Critics Poll and the Jazz Journalists Association (2010-2022). Mitchell initially emerged from Chicago’s innovative music scene in the late 90s. She started with Maia and Shanta Nurullah in Samana (the AACM’s first all-woman ensemble) and as a member of the David Boykin EXPANSE. Her music celebrates contemporary African American culture. She is the founder of Black Earth Ensemble\, Black Earth Strings\, Sonic Projections and Ice Crystal\, and she composes for contemporary ensembles of varied instrumentation and size\, while incorporating improvisation and a wide aesthetic expression. \n\n\n\nhttps://www.nicolemitchell.com/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNext Jazz Legacy\n\n\n\n Focused on increasing opportunities for musicians most underrepresented in the art form\, the three-year\, national program launched by New Music USA and the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice – with major funding from the Mellon Foundation – invests in awardees through personalized apprenticeships\, financial support\, and a mission to inspire waves of lasting change. \n\n\n\nCombining individual and group learning opportunities with a comprehensive support package designed to deliver deep impacts on every candidate’s career\, awardees receive $10\,000\, performance opportunities with master bandleaders\, two-way mentorship\, a learning cohort\, and professional promotional support. \n\n\n\nWith gender and racial justice as guiding principles\, Next Jazz Legacy awardees are chosen through an open call process and a meticulous\, months-long review process by a distinguished and diverse panel of jazz luminaries\, chaired by NEA Jazz Master and Next Jazz Legacy’s Artistic Director\, Terri Lyne Carrington. \n\n\n\nOnce the seven awardees are selected\, Carrington and the Next Jazz Legacy team work closely with each of the seven musicians to match them with a pair of master bandleaders for a year-long performance apprenticeship\, as well as an additional creative mentorship\, both aligned with the awardees’ unique interests. \n\n\n\nhttps://newmusicusa.org/program/next-jazz-legacy/ URL:https://angelcityjazz.com/event/nicole-mitchells-jbm-images-beyond-new-music-usa-njl-showcase/ LOCATION:REDCAT at Disney Hall\, 631 W 2nd Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012\, United States CATEGORIES:2023 Angel City Jazz Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://angelcityjazz.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Collage-Maker-28-Aug-2023-09-56-AM-5686.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231027T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231027T230000 DTSTAMP:20260623T060020 CREATED:20230519T131517Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T054945Z UID:10000066-1698436800-1698447600@angelcityjazz.com SUMMARY:Mat Maneri Quartet + Ennis Harris 'Images & Silhouettes' DESCRIPTION:Stephan Crump\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTicketsSubmitting form\n\n\n\npresented in partnership with \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFirst Set: Ennis Harris’ Images & SilhouettesWorld premiere of Images & Silhouettes\, a new composition commissioned by the Los Angeles Jazz Society’s Jeff Clayton’s Memorial New Note Award. \n\n\n\nSierra Schmeltzer – FluteLiz Plescia – OboeMatt Stubbs – ClarinetTanner Olivas – Bass ClarinetRachel O’Connor – French HornLandon Grigsby – TrumpetEthan Chilton – TrumpetJon Hatamiya – TromboneIndia Anderson – TubaBeau Henson – ViolinVeronika Manchur– ViolinGloria Choi – ViolaAlex Mansour – CelloMax Walker – GuitarSam Reid – Piano\, KeyboardYafeu Tyhimba – Upright & Electric BassAaron Serfaty – PercussionLauren Ellis – DrumsEnnis Harris – Alto Sax \n\n\n\nSecond Set: Mat Maneri QuartetMat Maneri – violaBrandon Lopez – bassLucian Ban – pianoRandy Peterson – drums \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“BEST OF 2019 – [Mat Maneri’s DUST is] a shining example of patient instrumental exchange that can sound like chamber music melting slowly off the page” \n– Rolling Stone\n\n\n\n\n“This is a collective music\, suspenseful without being tentative\, and it’s as much about listening as playing” \n– Downbeat\n\n\n\n\n“Images and Silhouettes is ultimately about the visceral relationship we have with imagery. Whether it’s through a photograph\, a painting\, a reflection\, or even a memory; I’m curious about what it means to try and capture a moment\, and how that moment expresses itself as time marches forward. We often fall in love with the ‘spirit of the moment’\, particularly when it comes to improvisation and music. I think the positioning of an image with its silhouette side-by-side gives us insight into both the subject and the “image-taker”. And so\, my approach to Images and Silhouettes is introspective in that way. I want to explore different points of view from “moments” throughout my life- their spirit\, and share that with you.“ \nEnnis Harris\n\n\n\n\n“Ennis Harris is a forward thinking and unique composer and player. His compositions have a distinct personality and sound all their own. He is someone to watch for sure!” \nBob Mintzer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnnis Harris’ Eye In The SkyPerformed by the Thornton Jazz Orchestra \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMat Maneri\n\n\n\nMat Maneri\, a leading improvisational voice of his generation\, was born in Brooklyn in 1969. He began studying the violin at the age of five\, but since borrowing a viola for a jam session at the 1998 ECM festival in Badenweiler\, he has made the viola his instrument of choice. Important influences on Maneri’s work – in addition to all the major forces of jazz – include Baroque music (which he studied with Juilliard String Quartet co-founder Robert Koff)\, Elliott Carter\, and the Second Viennese School of Schoenberg\, Berg and Webern\, which was also of central importance to his father\, the late\, great saxophonist\, clarinettist\, composer and educator Joe Maneri. Of his studies with Koff\, Mat Maneri has said: “Studying Baroque music helped me to find my sound. [Koff] brought me into the world of contrapuntal playing and a way of using the bow that sounded more like a trumpet\, like Miles\, to my mind.”Photo by  Antonio Porcar Cano \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnnis Harris\n\n\n\nEnnis Harris is a Los Angeles-based composer\, arranger\, saxophonist\, and flutist. His music seeks to blur genre and cultural boundaries through musical storytelling. \n\n\n\nAs a composer\, Ennis enjoys writing for various settings. In 2023\, he won the International Society of Jazz Arrangers and Composers (ISJAC)/USF “Prize For Emerging Black Composers” for his piece Eye In The Sky written for Big Band. In 2022\, his piece Portrait Poem\, written for Chamber Orchestra and Jazz Septet\, won the Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award. He has also been commissioned by theBABAorchestra\, who premiered his piece Ruggell in the fall of that year. \n\n\n\nAs a saxophonist and flutist\, Ennis has performed with artists such as The YellowJackets\, The Bill Holman Big Band\, Sammy Miller and The Congregation\, and Brian Charette. \n\n\n\nhttps://www.ennisharris.com/ \n\n\n\nPhoto by Lauren Desberg URL:https://angelcityjazz.com/event/mat-maneri-quartet-ennis-harris-chamber-jazz-ensemble/ LOCATION:2220 Arts + Archives\, 2220 Beverly Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90057\, United States CATEGORIES:2023 Angel City Jazz Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://angelcityjazz.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/10272220artsmatmaneri.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231025T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231025T223000 DTSTAMP:20260623T060020 CREATED:20230517T155116Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T054952Z UID:10000065-1698265800-1698273000@angelcityjazz.com SUMMARY:Harriet Tubman + OCEANS AND Tim Berne\, Aurora Nealand and Hank Roberts DESCRIPTION:Stephan Crump\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTicketsSubmitting form\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFirst Set: OCEANS AND \n\n\n\nTim Berne – alto saxAurora Nealand – accordion\, clarinet\, voiceHank Roberts – cello\, voice \n\n\n\nSecond Set: Harriet Tubman \n\n\n\nMelvin Gibbs – bassBrandon Ross – guitarJ.T. Lewis – drums \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“As free as their iconic abolitionist namesake\, Harriet Tubman is an irresistible force of truth\, beauty\, and electric improvisation”  \n– Village Voice\n\n\n\n\n“For the past six decades Tim Berne has ranked as one of the most indefatigable\, uncompromising figures in jazz and improvised music. Beneath his bitingly sarcastic persona and deservedly cynical view of the jazz industry\, he literally bursts with creativity and fresh ideas\, all while maintaining an instantly recognizable sound.“ \n– Peter Margasak\n\n\n\n\n“[Tim Berne is] a saxophonist and composer of granite conviction” \n– New York Times\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\nHarriet Tubman\n\n\n\nThe music group\, “Harriet Tubman” formed in 1998 when drummer J.T. Lewis\, guitarist Brandon Ross and bassist Melvin Gibbs came together to start a band with meaning. Named after the heroic African-American slave who risked her life to escape from slavery and help more than 300 others to do the same\, Harriet Tubman is deeply inspired by the ideals of freedom. The trio’s music — a fusion of soul\, rock\, jazz\, and blues — examines the depths of these genres for their own unique liberated musical expression.  \n\n\n\nThe band counts Jimi Hendrix\, Ornette Coleman\, and Parliment-Funkadelic as contributors to its musical DNA. Guitarist and singer Brandon Ross\, bassist Melvin Gibbs\, and Drummer JT Lewis have collaborated with artists as diverse as Cassandra Wilson\, Living Colour\, Lou Reed\, Herbie Hancock\, Henry Threadgill\, Sting\, Arrested Development\, the Rollins Band\, David Murray and Meshell Ndegeocello. Their own sound is pure and liberated musical expression—a deep and soulful meditation on the concept of freedom.https://www.harriettubmanmusic.com/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTim Berne\n\n\n\nTim Berne’s work is characterized by tireless artistic dedication and creativity. His newly formed trio with accordionist and multi-instrumentalist Aurora Nealand and cellist Hank Roberts takes the listener on a sonically adventurous journey on Oceans And and delights with much imagination and amazing musical diversity. The pieces are penned by Tim Berne and all open doors to infinite interpretation and development. “The breathtaking music\, created by Tim Berne\, Aurora Nealand\, and Hank Roberts can be deservedly and on all accounts deemed: profound\, probing\, intriguing\, distinct\, intricate\, raw\, courageous\, mysterious\, and thoughtful. The group’s concerted effort to achieve a cohesive blend is a refreshing relief. An honest crusade of in-depth imagination\, this music is a beacon of light in an unsettling world\,” writes Baikida Carroll in the liner notes and adds: “It stimulates the brain\, animates the imagination\, and charms the heart.” photo by Peter Gannushkin URL:https://angelcityjazz.com/event/harriet-tubman-tim-berne-trio/ LOCATION:Zebulon\, 2478 Fletcher Dr\, Los Angeles\, California\, 90039 CATEGORIES:2023 Angel City Jazz Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://angelcityjazz.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/1025zebulontimbernenew.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231022T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231022T223000 DTSTAMP:20260623T060020 CREATED:20230516T164319Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T054958Z UID:10000064-1698004800-1698013800@angelcityjazz.com SUMMARY:Todd Sickafoose's BEAR PROOF + Kirk Knuffke Trio DESCRIPTION:Stephan Crump\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets Submitting form\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFirst Set: Kirk Knuffke Trio \n\n\n\nKirk Knuffke – cornetSantiago Leibson – pianoMichael Bisio – bass \n\n\n\nSecond Set: Todd Sickafoose‘s BEAR PROOF \n\n\n\nTodd Sickafoose – bassJenny Scheinman – violinAdam Levy – guitarCarmen Staaf – pianoBen Goldberg – clarinetKirk Knuffke – cornetRob Reich – accordionAllison Miller – drums \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Rhythmically precise\, New Orleans funky and full of grace\, Kirk Knuffke’s music is a reflection of his multifaceted personality: part musical sage\, part jazz philosopher\, a self-taught musician with wide interests\, endless curiosity and an abundance of good humor.”  \n– Downbeat\n\n\n\n\n“[Todd Sickafoose is] a captivating improviser\, imaginative composer\, and master of collaboration.” \n– San Francisco Chronicle\n\n\n\n\n“Stunningly Brilliant” \nBass Player\n\n\n\n\n“Ani DiFranco’s Secret Weapon” \nThe New Yorker\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\nTodd Sickafoose\n\n\n\n West Coast native Todd Sickafoose brings a special octet featuring Jenny Scheinman (violin)\, Adam Levy (guitar)\, Carmen Staaf (piano)\, Ben Goldberg (clarinet)\, Kirk Knuffke (cornet)\, Rob Reich (accordion)\, and Allison Miller (drums). JazzTimes calls Sickafoose “thoroughly original” and “endlessly creative\,” and the San Francisco Chronicle calls him “a captivating improviser\, imaginative composer\, and master of collaboration.” He’s worked with an array of iconoclastic performers – the New Yorker has referred to him as “Ani DiFranco’s secret weapon” and he is the Tony and GRAMMY Award-winning orchestrator and music producer of Anais Mitchell’s current Broadway hit “Hadestown”. Tonight’s concert will be a rare performance of BEAR PROOF\, an hour-long piece and “a surreal meditation on BOOM and BUST.” Members of the all-star ensemble have played with a range of musical innovators\, from Bill Frisell to Norah Jones\, Dee Dee Bridgewater to Dr. Lonnie Smith\, Tin Hat to Andrew Bird.http://www.toddsickafoose.com/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKirk Knuffke\n\n\n\n“One of modern jazz’s most skilled navigators of the divide between inside and outside\, freedom and swing\,” Cornetist and Composer Kirk Knuffke has “full command of his most demanding instrument” (All About Jazz).Accolades for Knuffke include NPR’s Best Jazz Album of the Year for 2017’s Cherryco (SteepleChase)\,winner of DownBeat Magazine’s “Rising Star” critics poll in 2015\, and recipient of the Jerome Foundation Composers grant. In 2016\, he placed 2nd in the European El Intruso Critics poll for trumpet.   \n\n\n\nKnuffke has released 18 recordings as leader or co-leader and is featured as a sideman on over 50 recordings with leaders Matt Wilson\, Allison Miller\, Butch Morris\, Uri Caine\, Pierre Dorge and Michael Formanek to name a few. It’s no wonder the New York Times tagged Knuffke as “one of New York City’s Busiest Musicians.” \n\n\n\nhttps://www.kirkknuffke.com/ URL:https://angelcityjazz.com/event/todd-sickafooses-bear-proof-kirk-knuffke-trio/ LOCATION:the Moss Theatre\, 3131 Olympic Blvd\, Santa Monica\, 90404 CATEGORIES:2023 Angel City Jazz Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://angelcityjazz.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/NEW1022toddmoss.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231021T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231021T223000 DTSTAMP:20260623T060020 CREATED:20230514T090506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T055004Z UID:10000063-1697918400-1697927400@angelcityjazz.com SUMMARY:Root Progressions: Gloria Cheng\, Linda May Han Oh and Jon Jang DESCRIPTION:Stephan Crump\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTicketsSubmitting form\n\n\n\npresented with support from \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFirst set:Gloria Cheng – solo pianoJames Newton\, Eight Calla LiliesGernot Wolfgang\, Two MovementsJon Jang\, Ancestors & Sisters+Jon Jang – piano Hitomi Oba -sax \n\n\n\nSecond set:Gloria Cheng – solo pianoAnthony Davis\, Piano HeavenArturo O’Farrill\, Mis GuerrerosLinda May Han Oh\, Littoral Tales+Linda May Han Oh – bass Fabian Almazan – piano \n\n\n\n\n\nThis concert will feature the premiere of six solo piano compositions commissioned by Gloria Cheng to six acclaimed jazz composers: Linda May Han Oh\, Jon Jang\, Arturo O’Farrill\, Anthony Davis\, James Newton and Gernot Wolfgang. \n\n\n\n\n“…Cheng turned in a performance that can only be described as breathtaking.” \nStephen Brookes\, The Washington Post\n\n\n\n\n “the New York bassist [Linda Oh] makes a case for measured movements being as combustible as more aggressive gestures“ \nJim Macnie\, 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\nGloria Cheng\n\n\n\n“An invaluable new-music advocate and a preferred collaborator of composers like Pierre Boulez and Esa-Pekka Salonen” [NYT]\, won Best Instrumental Soloist (without orchestra) Grammy for 2008 Piano Music of Salonen\, Stucky\, Lutoslawski\, 2nd nomination 2013 Edge of Light: Messiaen/Saariaho. LA area Emmy 2018 for MONTAGE: Great Film Composers and the Piano PBS SoCal. Garlands for Steven Stucky CD works by 32 friends/former students—proceeds to LA Phil Stucky Composer Fellowship Fund. LAPhil soloist under Mehta\, Boulez\, Salonen\, Knussen. Recitalist at Ojai Festival\, Chicago Humanities\, William Kapell\, Tanglewood Fest of Contemporary Music\, Piano Spheres (founding member). Countless premieres including John Williams Prelude and Scherzo\, Salonen Dichotomie\, Adams Hallelujah Junction. Duo-recitals with Thomas Adès and Terry Riley. B.A. Economics Stanford\, Woolley Scholarship for Paris study\, grad degrees UCLA\, USC w/Aube Tzerko\, John Perry. UCLA faculty.https://www.gloriachengpiano.com/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLinda May Han Oh\n\n\n\nBased in New York City\, GRAMMY award-winning Linda May Han Oh is a bassist/composer who has performed and recorded with artists such as Pat Metheny\, Kenny Barron\, Joe Lovano\, Dave Douglas\, Terri Lyne Carrington\, Steve Wilson\, Geri Allen and Vijay Iyer. \n\n\n\nOriginally born in Malaysia and raised in Boorloo (Perth)\, Western Australia\, she has received many awards including a 2022 Deutscher Jazz Preis\, 2nd place at the BASS2010 Competition\, a semi-finalist at the BMW Bass competition and an honorary mention at the 2009 Thelonious Monk Bass Competition. She was voted the 2018-2021 Bassist of the Year by the Jazz Journalist’s Association\, as well 2022 Bassist of the Year in Jazztimes. Linda also was voted 2019 Bassist of the Year in Hothouse Magazine and was the 2020 recipient APRA award for Best New Jazz Work. In 2023 she received the prestigious Herb Albert Award for music. \n\n\n\nhttps://lindamayhanoh.com/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJon Jang\n\n\n\nDuring the past four decades\, pianist/composer/bandleader/activist/thought leader Jon Jang has created his own unique multimusicverse that features four music universes: 1. Hybridization of Chinese diasporic folk music tradition with the Black music tradition. 2. Composition in the western art tradition that commemorates and celebrates a transnational Chinese American history. 3.Composition and performance that memorializes Black victims of police violence. 4. Collaboration with Black\, Latino and Asian spoken word artists that advances a multiracial democracy.In 1999-2001\, Jang produced a recording toured with the legendary multiple percussionist Max Roach and erhu performer in an ensemble called the Beijing Trio in Europe and United States a Jang’s ensembles have toured at major concert halls and music festivals in Europe\, China\, Canada\, United States and in South Africa\, four months after the election to end apartheid in 1994. \n\n\n\nCommissioned by Cal Performances and the Walker Art Center\, longtime collaborator James Newton and Jang composed a work that pays tribute to two great artists Paul Robeson and Mei Lanfang that featured Black musicians collaborating with Beijing Opera musicians from China. \n\n\n\nIn 1987\, Francis Wong and Jang co-founded Asian Improv Records (AIR) which featured the debut recordings of Glenn Horiuchi\, Vijay Iyer and Miya Masaoka. Jang’s CAGES: A Way to Interrogate History has been released on AIR in 2023 and features spoken word artist Paul S. Flores\, Hitomi Oba\, Nick DePinna and others. \n\n\n\nhttp://www.jonjang.com/ URL:https://angelcityjazz.com/event/root-progressions-gloria-chen-linda-oh-and-jon-jang/ LOCATION:Zipper Hall @ Colburn School\, 200 S Grand Ave\, Los Angeles\, 90012 CATEGORIES:2023 Angel City Jazz Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://angelcityjazz.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/1021zippergloria.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR