HAMMER MUSEUM


HAMMER MUSEUM

JazzPOP: No Bounds

JazzPOP, the Hammer’s creative jazz festival, celebrates its 13th season with three concerts featuring the music of visionary West Coast musician/composers. Expect brilliant improvisation nested in carefully-crafted compositions, and jazz colored with the nuances of contemporary chamber music, and sounds and grooves from across the world.

Organized by San Francisco Bay Area bassist Lisa Mezzacappa.

Motoko Honda’s Simple Excesses
THURSDAY AUG 2, 2018 8:00PM

 

Pianist, composer, and improviser, Motoko Honda is a musical force of nature, who blends jazz with chamber music, electronic music, and the sounds of music from around the globe. Long a vital part of the L.A. improvised music community as a collaborator with Wadada Leo Smith, Nels Cline, Maggie Parkins, and others, the Bay Area-based “keyboard alchemist” (Los Angeles Times) returns to lead a quartet featuring some of Northern California’s most inventive, versatile sidemen through intricate compositions that layer taut rhythms and lush melodies.

Motoko Honda, keyboard
Cory Wright, woodwinds
Miles Wick, acoustic bass
Jordan Glenn, drums

                                Lauren Elizabeth Baba: theBABAorchestra
THURSDAY AUG 9, 2018 8:00PM 

An in-demand violinist in both commercial and experimental music scenes in Los Angeles, Lauren Elizabeth Baba formed her big band, theBABAorchestra, between string-section gigs at the Oscars, the Grammys, the Hollywood Bowl, and film soundstages. She conducts 17 of L.A.’s best and brightest improvisers through her dynamic compositions, which meld free-jazz, contemporary classical, drone rock, and Middle Eastern folk music. A recipient of the ASCAP Young Jazz Composers Award, Baba tailors her writing to the unique musical voices of her bandmembers, letting the music simmer in intimate, hypnotic passages, and also letting it rage in wild collective flights: “she’s establishing adventurous new territory… Baba is an artist to watch” (Downbeat Magazine). Listen to audio.

Lauren Baba, conductor and composer
Michael Mull, alto saxophone/clarinet
Joe Santa Maria, alto saxophone/clarinet
Kirsten Edkins, tenor saxophone
Andrew Conrad, tenor saxophone/clarinet
Ryan Parrish, baritone saxophone
Javier Gonzalez, trumpet
Brandon Sherman, trumpet
Andrew Rowan, trumpet
Greg Zilboorg, trumpet
Harrison Kirk, trombone
Joey Sellers, trombone
Shaunte Palmer, trombone
Juliane Gralle, bass trombone
Greg Uhlmann, guitar
Steve Blum, piano
Emilio Terranova, bass
Mike Lockwood, drums

The Tiptons Sax Quartet

THURSDAY AUG 16, 2018 8:00PM

Comprised of four superlative women saxophonist/vocalist/composers based in Washington, New York, and Wisconsin, plus a rotating male drummer, the Tiptons Sax Quartet celebrates its 30th anniversary as a joyfully uncategorizable ensemble this year. Their music is wildly and unapologetically eclectic, and their concerts swing, groove, and sashay through original repertoire influenced by New Orleans jazz, gospel, bluegrass, klezmer and Balkan music. Listen to audio.

Amy Denio, alto saxophone, clarinet, voice
Jessica Lurie, soprano, alto and tenor saxophones, voice
Sue Orfield, tenor saxophone, voice
Tina Richerson, baritone saxophone, voice
Tarik Abouzied, drums

JazzPOP, the Hammer’s creative jazz festival, celebrates its 13th season with three concerts featuring the music of visionary West Coast musician/composers. Expect brilliant improvisation nested in carefully-crafted compositions, and jazz colored with the nuances of contemporary chamber music, and sounds and grooves from across the world.

Organized by San Francisco Bay Area bassist Lisa Mezzacappa.

 

ATTENDING THIS PROGRAM?

Ticketing: This free program is not ticketed.  

Parking: Parking is available under the museum. Rates are $6 for the first three hours with museum validation, and $3 for each additional 20 minutes, with a $20 daily maximum. There is a $6 flat rate after 6 p.m. on weekdays, and all day on weekends. Cash only. 

All Hammer public programs are free and made possible by a major gift from an anonymous donor.

Generous support is also provided by Susan Bay Nimoy and Leonard Nimoy, Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley, The Samuel Goldwyn Foundation, an anonymous donor, and all Hammer members.

Public programs advancing social justice are presented by the Ford Foundation.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *