Angel City Jazz Festival The tenth annual Angel City Jazz Festival continues its tradition of Criss Cross (featuring Donny McCaslin and Dan Weiss); and Elliott being Los Angeles’ most adventurous modern jazz celebration. This Sharp playing Monk in a solo guitar performance for the closing night year’s theme celebrates the centennial of Thelonious Sphere Monk of the festival. In addition, Dwight Trible is curating a Monk-themed (born October 10, 1917). A very innovative individual and creative double-bill at The World Stage with James Leary’s Bassed (six force throughout his career as both a pianist and a composer, many basses and a drummer) premiering original arrangements of Monk’s of Monk’s songs (best-known of which is “’Round Midnight”), while music, and Dwight Trible’s band ‘Cosmic Vibrations’ with special way ahead of their time when they were introduced in the 1940s and guest award-winning actor Roger Guenveur Smith adding a bit of ‘50s, have since become jazz standards. His unique piano style has abstract storytelling based on Monk’s life and career. also been very influential while being impossible to duplicate. As is always the case at the Angels City Jazz Festival, there is much Rather than merely recreating Monk’s classic recordings, many much more. You can find full details about all of the performances of the performers at this year’s Angel City Jazz Festival will be listed within this program. paying tribute to the musical genius in their own unique way. The special opening night concert at the Ford Theatres features Dee We hope you’ll enjoy our musical presentations and we’d like to Dee Bridgewater’s “Afro-Cuban Dream” — her interpretation of invite you to support our programming efforts through our non- Carmen McCrae’s famous Carmen Sings Monk album — under the profit organization Angel City Arts. Donations are accepted online musical direction of John Beasley. The second half of that night at angelcityarts.org or at the Angel City Jazz Festival tables during will showcase DJ Logic, Mark de Clive-Lowe, Steve Lehman, and any of the festival events. Angel City Arts is staffed entirely by Deantoni Parks remixing Monk through Beasley’s own MONK’estra volunteers, so all of the donations go towards covering the expenses records. Other Monk tributes include concerts by the Jeff Parker of presenting creative jazz. Quartet at LACMA, where he will be exploring lesser-known Monk Rocco Somazzi – Gareth Jiffeau – Rob Woodworth, Festival Producers compositions; a Monk birthday celebration with the NYC-based duo of Mark Cappelli and Ken Viliano in a double-bill with Florian Weber’s www.angelcityarts.org STAFF SPONSORS & PATRONS BOARD OF DIRECTORS Rocco Somazzi — Creative Director The Herb Alpert Foundation Rocco Somazzi, Chairman of the Board Gareth Jiffeau — Co-Producer mediaThe Foundation Rob Woodworth Rob Woodworth — Public Relations/Co-Producer Shifting Foundation Maya Guice Eron Rauch — Art Direction/Graphic Design The Ford Theatres Zak Shelby-Szyszko Maya Guice — Web Design LA Department of Cultural Affairs William Weidner Zak Shelby-Szyszko — Marketing/Social Media LA County Arts Commission Maggie Parkins Leroy Downs — MC Los Angeles Jazz Society Myles Regan — Photographer KJAZZ Motoko Honda LACMA SPECIAL THANKS UCSD Jazz Camp The Moss Theatre at New Roads LACC jetBlue bluewhale Max Wrightson — LAJS Orenda Records Joe Walker Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber: Cryptogramophone Records David Breskin Lithocraft Mitch Glickman — LACMA We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite Instituto Italiano di Cultura a Los Angeles Dan Atkinson — UCSD Jazz Camp Fusicology Joon Lee — bluewhale THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 7:30PM Dublab Stephanie Levine — Kjazz Thelonious Monk Official Merchandise Dan Rice — Motherland Music Carlos Niños — Dublab Christopher Adams — Ararat Brandy angelcityjazz.com 1 MUSEUM 3 Los Angeles | Free Admission | hammer.ucla.edu MONK CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION METAL JAZZ NIGHT MONK’S AFRO-CUBAN DREAM BURNING GHOSTS Sunday, October 1, 2017 Thursday, October 5, 2017 @ZEBULON CAFÉ @FORD THEATRES 2478 North Fletcher Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90039 2580 Cahuenga Blvd East, Los Angeles, CA, 90068 8:00pm $12-$15 6:00pm $50/$40/$30/$20 DAN WEISS METAL JAZZ QUINTET Dan Rosenboom trumpet Dan Weiss drums Dee Dee Bridgewater vocals Jake Vossler guitar Ben Monder guitar Brian Lynch trumpet Richard Giddens bass Craig Taborn keys Conrad Herwig trombone Manuel Valera piano Aaron McLendon drums Matt Mitchell keys Ruben Rodriguez bass MONK DJ STYLE Trevor Dunn bass Richie Flores conga DJ Logic This is a double-bill with Dan Weiss Metal Jazz Quintet. The Dan Weiss Metal Jazz Quintet is a newly formed band intent on exploring Robby Ameen drums Mark de Clive-Lowe One Ticket allows access to both concerts. Heavy Metal music through original composistions and new arrangements of music John Beasley artistic director Deatoni Parks A politically motivated quartet at the forefront of the jazz-metal underground featuring four ranging from Monk to Stravinsky. They recently recorded their debut album. Steve Lehman ‘Monk’s Afro-Cuban Dream’ adds the clave to Carmen McRae’s Carmen Sings Monk, of the most acclaimed musicians in the LA experimental music scene. Playing scorching New York-based drummer and percussionist Dan Weiss’ sound is instantly recognizable featuring Dee Dee Bridgewater on vocals, Brian Lynch on trumpet, Conrad Herwig on With performances by DJ Logic, Mark de Clive-Lowe, Deantoni Parks and Steve instrumentals that touch on heavy metal and jazz, the music is uncompromising and intense, whenever he plays. His style is equally influenced by modern jazz and East Indian music trombone, Manuel Valera on piano, Ruben Rodriguez on bass, Richie Flores on conga and Lehman slicing and sampling Monk through John Beasley’s MONK’estra’s imaginative filled with precise rhythmic complexity and textural power. and for this new project he will be exploring the sounds of metal jazz music with the help Robby Ameen on drums. arrangements. The second album by avant-activist metal-jazz band Burning Ghosts, Reclamation, of an all-star cast of New York-based progressive jazz musicians. One of the best jazz singers of her generation, Dee Dee Bridgewater had to move to The theorem of turntablist as musician has been long proven in the capable hands of features 9 compositions rooted in advocacy for social justice. The lineup features Daniel The band features two of the most in-demand pianists on the New York jazz scene today France to find herself. She performed in Michigan during the ‘60s and toured the Soviet DJ LOGIC, whom with jazz as his foundation has become a wax innovator by crossing Rosenboom, one of LA’s top studio trumpeters from the latest Star Wars films and many — Matt Mitchell and Craign Taborn. Union in 1969 with the University of Illinois Big Band. She sang with the Thad Jones/ genres and mixing his sound across the map. As one of the world’s most accomplished other Hollywood soundtracks; Jake Vossler, the guitarist from death metal outfits Whale and Mel Lewis orchestra (1972-1974) and appeared in the Broadway musical The Wiz (1974- Thornlord; Richard Giddens, the bassist and veteran member of STOMP and the Lost and turntablist’s, DJ LOGIC is widely credited for introducing jazz into the hip - hop realms Matt Mitchell’s new album on Pi Recordings is called A Pouting Grimace and it weaves 1976). Found Orchestra; and Aaron McLendon, the drummer from Postmodern Jukebox. and is considered by most as a highly respected session musician and an innovative an intricate web of off-kilter rhythms and logical frenzy. It is completely beyond genre, bandleader. Her 1995 Horace Silver tribute disc, Love and Peace, was a gem, and resulted in the “Burning Ghosts [is] one of the best bands to emerge from L.A. in years.” a daring tour de force that headily mines the interstice between precision-plotted singer extensively touring the U.S, reintroducing herself to American audiences. She found Musical polymath Mark de Clive-Lowe seems an impossibility at first sight - —Downtown Music Gallery (NYC) compositions and the thrill of improvisation. even more success with another tribute album, Dear Ella, which won a Grammy in 1997. juggling piano, synths, live sampling and beat making all on-the-fly, brought to life Released earlier this year on ECM, Craig Taborn’s Daylight Ghosts features two luminaries with a casual ease that’s mind-boggling. The Japanese-New Zealander was raised “Marvelous.” This Is New, released in 2002, featured Bridgewater singing Kurt Weill songs, while from the New York scene — reed player Chris Speed and bassist Chris Lightcap plus primarily in New Zealand where he learnt piano from a young age developing an avid —Jazz In Europe 2005’s J’ai Deux Amours found her tackling French classics. From 2010’s Eleanora drummer Dave King, the leaders fellow Minnesota native and one-third of alt-jazz trio The passion for jazz through his father’s record collection. In high school, he fell in love Fagan (1917-1959): To Billie with Love from Dee Dee, Bridgewater moved from Verve to Bad Plus. with Native Tongues hip hop and early UK jungle – laying the foundation for what was Decca/Emarcy, and offered her versions of several songs associated with Billie Holiday. to come next… She followed this in August 2011 with her sophomore effort for the label: a compilation collection of jazz standards entitled Midnight Sun, with tunes from previous albums Special thanks to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for their continuing support ranging from “Angel Eyes” to Horace Silver’s “Lonely Woman.” In 2014, she produced and of the John Anson Ford Theatres. The Ford Theatres are owned by the County of Los appeared on trumpeter Theo Croker’s album, Afro Physicist.