Angel City Jazz Festival Returns to the Ford with Global Jam
Ford Amphitheatre (2580 Cahuenga Blvd. East Hollywood, CA 90068)
- Full Price:
- $40.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $20.00*
* Additional fees apply.
All offers for Angel City Jazz Festival have expired.
The last date listed for Angel City Jazz Festival was Saturday October 1, 2011 / 5:00pm-11:00pm.
Goldstar Member Tips
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Natalie Narvid Glaser on Where to Park
Take the shuttle from Universal City Metro Station
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Goldstar Member on What to Wear
Dress up or smart casual.
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Goldstar Member on Where to Eat
You can take your own, but the conversions available offer very nice food.
5 Goldstar Member Reviews
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Tigran Hamasyan is one of the best jazz pianists--make that one of the best musicians--I have ever heard.Written on Oct 03 2011
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Cheryl Leff
Great music, beautiful evening under the stars...what else could you ask for?Written on Oct 03 2011
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Wonderfully intimate amphitheater with great acoustics, comfortable seating and world class bands. no one could ask fir a better experience.Written on Oct 03 2011
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More Information About Angel City Jazz Festival
Website
http://www.fordtheatres.org/en/events/details/id/240
Quotes & Highlights
- Listen to song samples of the Kandinsky Effect.
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About the Artists
Satoko Fujii & Natsuki Tamura
Satoko Fujii is one of the most original voices in jazz today. Half of an impressionistic husband and wife piano & trumpet duo from Tokyo, Japan, she is a “virtuoso piano improviser, an original composer and a band-leader who gets the best collaborators to deliver,” says John Fordham in The Guardian. In concert and on over thirty-five albums as a leader or co-leader, the Tokyo resident synthesizes jazz, contemporary classical, avant-rock and Japanese folk music into an innovative music, instantly recognizable as hers alone. Her spouse Natsuki Tamura has an active performing career split between his homeland and the United States. He has been widely recognized for his unique and accomplished sound and has been compared with players as diverse as Lester Bowie, Miles Davis, and Freddie Hubbard. He has been featured worldwide at festivals including the 1998 Texaco New York Jazz Festival in a solo trumpet performance, Newport Jazz in Madarao, Japan Jazz Aid, Yokohama Jazz, Yatsugatake Jazz, Kobe Jazz, and Hibiya Jazz, as well as in clubs such as the Knitting Factory in New York, the Carnival Jazz Club, Babel 2nd, and Pit Inn in Tokyo, Airgin in Yokohama, and the Willow Jazz Club in Boston, among others.
The Kandinski Effect
The Kandinsky Effect is a post-modern jazz Trio searching for new ways to improvise within the jazz idiom by blending the borders of jazz, rock, electronic, hip-hop, and experimental sounds to create a truly singular voice within instrumental music. Improvisation is ever-present, and spontaneity is paramount. The band has been touring extensively throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe over the last few years building new audiences with an adventurous yet accessible sound and a flair for the unexpected. As the Los Angeles Times puts it “The young Paris-based trio, The Kandinsky Effect, offers an invigorating approach to modern jazz improvisation.”
Tigran Quintet
Called “Amazing” by no less a jazz piano authority than Herbie Hancock and regarded as an absolute prodigy of his instrument, Tigran Hamasyan is a recent winner of the world-renown Thelonious Monk Piano Competition and the Montreux Jazz Solo Competition. Originally from Armenia and living in Paris now, Hamasyan combines the folk melodies of his home country with the complexities of jazz. Described by the NY Times as "intensely searching…an intuitive force," his quintet performance with Ben Wendel on sax, and Nate Wood on drums, both of the popular and influential group Kneebody, Sam Minaie on bass and Armenian vocalist Areni will be an energetic and visceral experience. Tigran released his solo CD, A Fable earlier this year on Verve Records.
Rudresh Mahanthappa & Samdhi
Composer, Guggenheim fellow and 2011 Downbeat International Critics Poll "Alto Sax Player of the Year," Rudresh Mahanthappa is one of the most innovative musicians in jazz today, fusing the musical culture of his Indian ancestry and jazz with myriad other influences to create a groundbreaking artistic vision. In Sanskrit, Samdhi means "that which combines or unites" or "the interval between day and night." In more traditional Hindu terms, it refers to the period between the end of one age and the dawn of another. For Rudresh this project represents a new direction in combing the complex melodic and rhythmic elements of both South Indian music and the traditions of jazz within an electro-acoustic format consisting of alto saxophone with electronics, electric guitar, electric bass, and drums. A direct result, of his research as a Guggenheim fellow, this new work will deeply engage the listener while breaking new ground in the multicultural landscape of modern music. Mahanthappa’s Samdhi album will be released on September 27, 2011 through Act Music.
Pan Afrikan People’s Arkestra
The Pan Afrikan People's Arkistra is a performing arts organization comprised of instrumentalists, vocalists, dancers, writers, and teachers. The “ARK”, as it is affectionately known, was formed in the Los Angeles area in the early 1960’s by the late composer/ pianist, Horace Tapscott. This unique musical ensemble is the realization of Mr. Tapscott’s vision of developing and showcasing the extraordinary talents of artists from the local community. Currently under the direction of lead vocalist extraordinaire Dwight Trible, this powerful choir speaks as one voice for the community, in truth and love. Today's performance marks the 50th anniversary of The ARK and continues Mr. Tapscott’s ultimate vision of a community-based group of artists dedicated to performing and preserving the original compositions of Pan-African artists throughout the world.
About the Ticket Supplier: Angel City Arts
The Angel City Jazz Festival - LA's only non-commercial jazz and new music festival - is a celebration of World Jazz at seven exciting venues stretching over a 10 day period. The Angel City Jazz Festival features innovative and original jazz musicians from the west coast and around the world. The festival presents established jazz artists as well as lesser known emerging talent, with a focus on west coast creative jazz, past, present and future.
The festival is produced by Angel City Arts (ACA), a music presenting non-profit organization committed to cultivating and revitalizing jazz culture in Los Angeles. ACA presents regular live concerts by established and emerging music innovators who have achieved exceptionally high levels of musicianship and brought forward a significant contribution to the evolution of jazz and improvised music.
The 2011 festival is made possible through generous contributions by the LA County Arts Commission, The Herb Alpert Foundation, MediaTHe Foundation, LACMA, CalArts, The Colburn School of Music, and Cryptogramophone Records.