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SUMMARY:The Gathering\, a Tribute to Jesse Sharps + Chris Powe
DESCRIPTION:LACMA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\npresented in partnership with \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n6:00pm – Chris PoweChris Powe – saxVeritus Miller – pianoPaul Reinhold – bassVinnie Aguas – drums \n\n\n\n7:00pm – The Gathering\, a Tribute to Jesse Sharps \n\n\n\nFundi Legohn – French Horn and ConductingDwight Trible – voiceTatiana Tate – trumpet Kafi Roberts – fluteDevin Daniels– saxophoneJamael Dean – pianoNick Rosen – bassMichael Alvidrez – bassFritz Wise – drums \n\n\n\n\n\nOn October 10th\, 2005 Jesse Sharps brought together some of the hottest young players in Los Angeles with members of Horace Tapscott’s Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra for a historic recording session. This session spawned The Gathering\, an ongoing community band\, a documentary film\, and multiple recordings. \n\n\n\nJesse was one of Horace’s most trusted and influential bandleaders\, leading the Arkestra during their strongest period in the ’70s\, on several seminal recordings\, and he recently put together a 60-year anniversary reunion session of the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra. \n\n\n\nThe Gathering was Jesse’s vehicle for bringing together musicians from a broad spectrum and highlighting the music of the Arkestra. And 20 years on now\, Jesse Sharps’ musical journey has become part of the Ancestral Echoes\, just as it did for his mentor and friend Horace Tapscott years before. \n\n\n\nAncestral Echoes was one of Jesse’s favorite compositions by Horace\, and like his mentor Horace\, his contributions will continue to be felt by those he inspired and connected with. Come celebrate this great music and legacy that will continue on for years to come. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJesse Sharps\n\n\n\nBack in the 1970s Jesse Sharps was the legendary bandleader for Horace Tapscott’s Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra. He led the group on the seminal albums released through Nimbus West Records at the peak of the band’s power and strength. \n\n\n\nFollowing an extended period abroad in Europe\, he returned to Los Angeles in the summer of 2005 to pull together and catalog the extensive repertoire of the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra\, featuring over 400 compositions by more than 100 composers dating back to the early 1960s. \n\n\n\nWith plans to bring select compositions forward and share them with the world\, The Gathering: Roots & Branches of Los Angeles Jazz was born. Since then Jesse continued his work featuring select pieces for performance and recording\, and put together the Los Angeles Composers of the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra\, an organization dedicated to bringing the music to schools and institutions throughout the world for performance and study.http://thegatheringleimertpark.com/
URL:https://angelcityjazz.com/event/the-gathering-young-artist-competition-winner/
LOCATION:LACMA\, 5905 Wilshire Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90036\, United States
CATEGORIES:2025 Angel City Jazz Festival
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SUMMARY:Otmaro Ruiz Quartet + Simon Metzger Quartet
DESCRIPTION:LACMA\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
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SUMMARY:Sam Rivers 100 - A celebration of the Musical Legacy of Sam Rivers
DESCRIPTION:LACMA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNo Tickets Required\n\n\n\n\npresented in partnership with \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMark Masters Ensemble \n\n\n\nBilly Harper – tenor saxophoneNicole McCabe – alto saxophoneJerry Pinter – tenor/soprano saxophonesTom Luer – baritone saxophoneRyan DeWeese – trumpetLes Lovitt – trumpetNathan Kay – trumpetLes Benedict – tromboneFred Simmons – tromboneDave Woodley – tromboneJeff Colella – pianoChris Colangelo – bassKendall Kay – drumsMark Masters – arranger \n\n\n\n\n\nThis concert is part of Jazz at LACMA\, a long standing series celebrating LA’s finest musicians\, happening every Friday from April to November and it is co-presented by The American Jazz Institute. \n\n\n\nSam Rivers was a legendary figure in the world of improvised music. His legacy continues to be a presence in the jazz community. \n\n\n\nTo celebrate what would have been Sam’s 100th birthday\, composer and arranger Mark Masters has focused on the years that Sam was a Blue Note Records artist. For the first time\, Sam’s small group compositions will be reimagined for thirteen musicians. \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\nSam Rivers\n\n\n\nWhatever the size of the ensemble\, Sam Rivers’ music was rooted in the blues. All you may need to know about him is that in 1964 he went directly from T-Bone Walker’s band to the Miles Davis Quintet\, from playing “Stormy Monday” with the showboating but gifted Texas bluesman to playing “So What” with the Prince of Darkness\, and never missed a beat. The son of traveling gospel musicians\, Rivers was born in Oklahoma in 1923\, grew up in Chicago and Little Rock\, enlisted in the U.S. Navy\, and studied with composer Alan Hovhaness at the Boston Conservatory of Music. That combination of blues\, gospel\, and cerebral art music would serve him well for the rest of his life. \n\n\n\n“Sam always rocked\,” says Marty Khan\, Rivers’ manager in the ’70s. “He could be way out there and still be absolutely rocking. It was that blues groove and that blues language always kept him grounded\, even when he got far out. He seldom got into that ether area\, that spacy realm that a lot of his colleagues did. And if he did it for a minute\, he’d go right back to the slamming.”https://samrivers.com/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMark Masters\n\n\n\nMark Masters (b. 1957) is an inventive and prolific composer and arranger from southern California.  He organized his first ensemble in 1982.  In 1990\, Masters wrote the album PRIESTESS (Capri 74031) to feature Billy Harper and Jimmy Knepper.  A subsequent recording with Knepper\, THE JIMMY KNEPPER SONGBOOK (Focus 1001\, 1993) featured arrangements by Masters of Knepper’s compositions. \n\n\n\nThe most recent recording by Masters\, OUR METIER (Capri 74150\, 2018)\, features Andrew Cyrille\, Oliver Lake\, Gary Foster\, Mark Turner\, Tim Hagans\,  Putter Smith\, and Dave Woodley in a large ensemble setting.  Michael Ullman calls OUR METIER “…an eclectic and beautifully accomplished big band recording that is made up of\, for once\, Masters’ originals.” DOWNBEAT magazine awarded the recording four stars in its December 2018 issue \n\n\n\nhttps://www.markmastersmusic.com/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBilly Harper\n\n\n\nIn his early recordings and performances with leaders such as Art Blakey\, Lee Morgan\, Max Roach\, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis and Gil Evans\, during the 60s and 70s\, Billy Harper already had a massive sound on the tenor saxophone\, combining John Coltrane’s spiraling intensity with a bluesy brawn that pointed back to his Texas origins.  \n\n\n\nHarper’s authority has only grown with age: a half-century on\, he stands as one of the most commanding horn men on the planet\, a pillar of stirring post-bop jazz whose robust back catalog seems long overdue for rediscovery. \n\n\n\nFor half a century he has been performing his original music with the Billy Harper Quintet all over the globe\, and recording over a dozen albums as leader and composer\, many of them considered “historic”. After a pandemic induced hiatus\, Billy Harper and his Quintet are back in action\, starting 2023 off with a series of #CapraBlackIsBack performances\, marking what will be a year long celebration of his 80th birthday\, and the 50th anniversary of his renowned debut album “Capra Black”.
URL:https://angelcityjazz.com/event/samrivers100/
LOCATION:LACMA\, 5905 Wilshire Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90036\, United States
CATEGORIES:2023 Angel City Jazz Festival
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Pinson's Boom Clap
DESCRIPTION:LACMA\n\n\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\n6pm – Jonathan Pinson’s Boom ClapJonathan Pinson – drumsMario Castro – saxJavier Santiago – pianoAndrew Renfroe– guitarJoshua Crumbly – bassMelo Gia – vocals \n\n\n\n\n\nThis concert is part of Jazz at LACMA\, a long standing series celebrating LA’s finest musicians\, happening every Friday from April to November. \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\nJonathan Pinson\n\n\n\nJonathan Pinson began his love affair with the drum set at the age of two when he was surrounded by the music of his mother’s choir. His formal music training began at the age of six with instruction on the piano. Shortly after\, Jonathan transitioned to the drum set at the Colburn School of Performing Arts and studied with Billy Higgins from The World Stage.  \n\n\n\nHe was asked to tour with Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter’s band at the age of 23. This experience identified him as a highly sought after drummer in the music industry and has allowed him to tour and perform with notable artists such as Ambrose Akinmusire\, John Clayton\, Dave Liebman\, Ed Simon\, Eric Reed\, Kamasi Washington\, Marquis Hill and Gilad Hekselman to name a few. \n\n\n\nHe has performed and toured at various locations including the following: Tokyo Jazz Festival\, International Jazz Day in Istanbul Turkey\, Panama Jazz Festival\, Monterey Jazz Festival\, Nancy France Jazz Festival\, a tour of Israel with The Ronen Shmueli Quintet\, Newport Jazz Festival\, Martha’s Vineyard Jazz Festival\, and the Montreal Jazz Festival.https://jonathanpinson.weebly.com/
URL:https://angelcityjazz.com/event/jonathan-pinson/
LOCATION:LACMA\, 5905 Wilshire Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90036\, United States
CATEGORIES:2022 Angel City Jazz Festival
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SUMMARY:Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra
DESCRIPTION:LACMA\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\nThis concert is a special celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra\, which was founded by Horace Tapscott in 1961. \n\n\n\nThis year also marks the 30th anniversary of the Jazz at LACMA concert series. \n\n\n\n\n\nfeaturing: \n\n\n\nMekala Session\, Roberto Miranda\, Jamael Dean\, Derf Recklaw\, William Roper\, Fundi Leghon\, Masai Marcelin\, Tatiana Tate\, Corbin Jones\, Randal Fisher\, Devin Daniels\, Michael Session\, Ricky Washington\, Riyan El-magharbel\, Kafi Roberts\, Maia\, Sharada Shashidhar\, Dwight Trible\, Kamau Daood \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\nThe Ark\n\n\n\nThe Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra is a Black music ensemble from Los Angeles founded in 1961 by Horace Tapscott. The Arkestra (Ark or PAPA for short) started as a collective of jazz musicians and other artists who were fired up like no other. The Ark was also formed as a response to the racial inequality in the US. Artists subjected to prejudice who saw opportunities denied to them found an outlet to express themselves via the Ark. The ensemble began with few people rehearsing in Horace’s garage\, soon doing free shows at parks and churches\, workshops at schools and other public events. Since its inception\, the Ark has been performing with an ever-expanding roster of talented artists. Some notable members include: Kamasi Washington\, Phil Ranelin\, Sonija “Maia” Harper\, Arthur Blythe\, Adele Sebastian\, Kamau Daaood\, and Dwight Trible just to name a few. The Ark is currently mixed with veteran members as well as young musicians\, all led by Mekala Session with the help of Jamael Dean and elders.
URL:https://angelcityjazz.com/event/papa/
LOCATION:LACMA\, 5905 Wilshire Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90036\, United States
CATEGORIES:2021 Angel City Jazz Festival
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