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A N G E L C I T Y 2019 13 2- R E B O T C O ANGEL CITY JAZZ FESTIVAL First and foremost, I’d like to thank you for choosing to To help usher in the newest generation of innovative attend one (or more) of our concerts. You clearly have a composers/improvisers, Angel City Arts is hosting the 7th thirst and curiosity for interesting music and I’m confident Angel City Arts Young Artist Competition this year. Every you’ll find the experience of listening to these world class fall, just before the festival, high school and college-aged musicians extremely rewarding. students from the L.A. area come together to compete for a $1,500 cash prize, plus a prominent slot to perform For 2019, we’ve assembled one of the most adventurous at the festival at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and diverse line-up ever. From the minimalist composer (LACMA), and a scholarship to attend the University of icon Terry Riley and avant-garde duo of Darius Jones & California, San Diego (UCSD) Jazz Camp. As our Young Joshua White to beat scientist Makaya McCraven and hip- Artist Competition continues to grow each year, we are hop infused Ego Mondo featuring rapper Kokayi, the music always looking to hear more about schools, colleges, spans a remarkably wide variety of multi-generational universities and student groups between the ages of 16-24 talent. who would like to participate. COSMOLOGICAL I welcome you to take a close look at the schedule and The Angel City Jazz Festival is produced by Angel City information in this program to learn about the various Arts, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, staffed 100% shows we’re presenting. There’s something for everyone by volunteers. We gladly accept tax deductible donations COMPOSITIONS and each concert will feature some of the most creative, and/or in-kind support. If you’re interested in donating, engaging and meaningful music you will hear anywhere in please visit our merchandise table and talk to a volunteer. the country . or world for that matter! We appreciate your support. Wadada Leo Smith It is often wrongly assumed that Jazz is a dying art form. Thank you for being a part L.A.’s most adventurous jazz All you have to do is look at the caliber of artists playing festival! our festival to discredit this notion with ample proof that & Nina Eidsheim the jazz scene in L.A. and across the world is as vibrant and Rocco Somazzi diverse as it’s ever been. Artists from multiple generations –Festival Producer with contrasting cultural backgrounds and truly unique musical perspectives are all producing some of the most THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 7:30PM exciting music anyone has ever heard before. FREE ADMISSION Internationally acclaimed composer and trumpeter STAFF SPONSORS & PATRONS BOARD OF DIRECTORS Wadada Leo Smith joins UCLA musicologist Nina Rocco Somazzi — Executive Director/Producer The Herb Alpert Foundation Rocco Somazzi, Chairman of the Board Eidsheim to discuss his compositional language, Eron Rauch — Art Direction/Graphic Design Aaron Copeland Fund for Music Maya Guice Zak Shelby-Szyszko — Marketing/Social Media mediaThe Foundation Zak Shelby-Szyszko Ankhrasmation, and their forthcoming collaborative Gregory Ulhmann LeRoy Downs — MC LA Department of Cultural Affairs Motoko Honda recording and book project. LA County Arts Commission Los Angeles Jazz Society SPECIAL THANKS KJAZZ Max Wrightson – LAJS LACMA Joe & Nancy Walker – mediaThe Foundation UCSD Jazz Camp Jeff Schwartz - Santa Monica Public Library Cryptogramophone Records Mitch Glickman – LACMA Lithocraft Dan Atkinson – UCSD Jazz Camp REDCAT Joon Lee – bluewhale Stephanie Levine – KJazz 88.1FM Dan Sulzberg – Dan’s Village LeRoy Downs & Frederick Smith, Jr. – Just Jazz Concert Series Sam Milgrom – Mr. Musichead Gallery 1 MUSEUM Dwight Trible – The World Stage 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA angelcityjazz.com hammer.ucla.edu | @hammer_museum 3 JENNY SCHEINMAN & ALLISON MILLER’S PARLOUR GAME TOMEKA REID’S ARTIFACTS TRIO Thursday, October 3, 2019 Wednesday, October 2, 2019 @REDCAT ANNA WEBBER SIMPLE TRIO @MR. MUSICHEAD GALLERY 631 W 2nd St, Los Angeles, CA, 90012 Anna Webber reeds 7420 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90046 8:00pm $25 ($15 Students) Matt Mitchell piano John Hollenbeck vibes 7:30pm $35 ($20 Students) This is a double-bill with Anna Webber Simple Trio. One ticket allows access to both sets. This is a double-bill with Iridescent. One of a growing number of genre-crushing young artists working at the fringes of modern One ticket allows access to both sets. Jenny Scheinman violin jazz and so-called “new music,” Canadian-born saxophonist and composer Anna Webber Tomeka Reid cello Allison Miller bass has staked out some truly distinctive musical terrain with her all-star Simple Trio. If you’re not familiar with Ms. Webber (who’s worked with Dan Weiss, Jen Shyu, Ohad Talmor Nicole Mitchell flute Tony Scherr drums Carmen Staaf trumpet and classical composer John Luther Adams to name a few), you will certainly recognize Mike Reed drums IRIDESCENT her Simple Trio-mates: John Hollenbeck and Matt Mitchell. Kindred spirits in every sense Nicole Mitchell flute of the word, Webber, Mitchell, and Hollenbeck are restless intellects whose multi-hued Jenny Scheinman & Allison Miller’s PARLOUR GAME celebrates the popular Cellist Tomeka Reid, flutist Nicole Mitchell, and drummer Mike Reed - three of the most Christina Wheeler voice, harp, and electronics music continually pushes the outside of the envelope—both stylistically and technically—and roots of jazz. It honors the groove, the conversation, the game, and the women that made important and acclaimed musicians connected to the Association for the Advancement whose off-the-cuff virtuosity makes the impossible seem easy. As a composer, Webber’s jazz a social music. It features four musicians that have been at the forefront of American of Creative Musicians over the last two decades - celebrate the legacy of the AACM with “Nicole Mitchell is one of contemporary jazz’s great talents.” devil-may-care approach places Thelonious Monk, Steve Lacy and Anthony Braxton on music for nearly 20 years bending genres, creating new ways of playing, mixing it up. Now their collective Artifacts Trio. — Seth Colter Walls, Bandcamp.com equal footing with Giacinto Scelsi and Györgi Ligeti. She seeks to blur the line between they get to groove. spontaneous and written-out composition, both sonically and as part of the music-making “50 years later, Mike, Tomeka and I stand back and look at this beautiful legacy and we “Christina Wheeler’s otherworldly sonic effects via electronics” process. Parlour Game was born on tour when Carmen Staaf and Tony Scherr were subbing for want to go into the portal and be a part of some of that past while we ride into the future — Seth Colter Walls, Bandcamp.com the piano and bass player in Allison Miller’s ‘Boom Tic Boom’. There was an immediate with our own music. We’re all clearly committed to making our own music all the time, Matt Mitchell is a pianist and composer interested in the intersections of various strains chemistry. “Even the edgiest material swung,” says Miller, “and we realized that we had but it’s also a fun adventure to play some of these tunes that even the composers might Iridescent is a new project featuring Nicole Mitchell and Christina Wheeler, combining of acoustic, electric, composed, and improvised new music. He currently composes for and found something really special. It felt so good!” have left behind for the new.” - Nicole Mitchell flute, harp, electronics, and vocals in a living soundscape that is luminous and shifting. leads several ensembles featuring many of the current foremost musicians and improvisers, Seeking discovery, raw emotion, and cultural expression, Iridescent builds mosaics of including Tim Berne, Kim Cass, Kate Gentile, Ben Gerstein, Jon Irabagon, Travis Laplante, Scheinman and Miller met in Brooklyn in the early 2000’s. Scheinman had come from a Recently described as a “New Jazz Power Source” by the New York Times, cellist and harmonizing African rhythms, ethereal atmospheres, and freewheeling moments pointing Ava Mendoza, Miles Okazaki, Ches Smith, Chris Speed, Tyshawn Sorey, Chris Tordini, Anna rural roots background and was immersed in the downtown NYC music scene. Miller had composer Tomeka Reid emerged as one of the most original, versatile, and curious towards inner awakening. Webber, Dan Weiss. musicians in the Chicago’s bustling jazz and improvised music community over the last come from DC swing and had a steady gig with Dr. Lonnie Smith. Their insatiable curiosity and general gregariousness brought them into a variety of different genres. Scheinman decade. Now based in New York, her distinctive melodic sensibility, usually braided to Mitchell is a 2018 recipient of the “Champion of New Music” award from the American John Hollenbeck is a composer of music uncategorizable beyond the fact of being formed a lifelong connection with Bill Frisell and wrote and released nine albums featuring a strong sense of groove, has been featured in many distinguished ensembles over the Composers Forum and has been hailed repeatedly as “Top Flutist of the Year” by always identifiably his. A conceptualist able to translate the traditions of jazz and new some of the most innovative jazz musicians of our time such as Jason Moran, Brian Blade, years. Reid has been a key member of ensembles led by legendary reedists like Anthony DownBeat. music into a fresh, eclectic, forward-looking language of his own invention, intellectually Ron Miles and Nels Cline. She also dove headfirst into the roots world, touring with a Braxton and Roscoe Mitchell, as well as a younger generation of visionaries including rewarding yet ever accessibly vibrant. A drummer and percussionist possessed of a playful number of iconic American artists such as Lucinda Williams, Rodney Crowell, Robbie Fulks, flutist Nicole Mitchell, singer Dee Alexander, and drummer Mike Reed.