Matana Roberts' Anthem at Angel City Jazz Festival at Blue Whale

DOUBLE BILL! General $20.
For more information, please visit: http://angelcityjazz.com/venues/blue-whale

The 2014 Angel City Jazz Festival is presented by The Jazz Bakery.


SLUMGUM (8:00pm)
Trevor Anderies – drums
Jon Armstrong – saxophone
Rory Cowal – piano
David Tranchina – bass

Slumgum is a perpetually inventive quartet of adventurous musicians. The band’s unique voice is shaped by unbridled imagination and diverse influences that include jazz, free improvisation, world music, and modern classical music. They collaborate with a facility and playfulness that is rare for an ensemble, giving their musical curiosity room to explode and yielding daring results. All of these qualities find a home in the band’s innovative and colorful compositions. Performing live, Slumgum delivers their original music with spontaneity and a blend of grit and finesse. For the audience, Slumgum’s exhilarating music projects their sheer joy in playing together....

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DOUBLE BILL! General $20.
For more information, please visit: http://angelcityjazz.com/venues/blue-whale

The 2014 Angel City Jazz Festival is presented by The Jazz Bakery.


SLUMGUM (8:00pm)
Trevor Anderies – drums
Jon Armstrong – saxophone
Rory Cowal – piano
David Tranchina – bass

Slumgum is a perpetually inventive quartet of adventurous musicians. The band’s unique voice is shaped by unbridled imagination and diverse influences that include jazz, free improvisation, world music, and modern classical music. They collaborate with a facility and playfulness that is rare for an ensemble, giving their musical curiosity room to explode and yielding daring results. All of these qualities find a home in the band’s innovative and colorful compositions. Performing live, Slumgum delivers their original music with spontaneity and a blend of grit and finesse. For the audience, Slumgum’s exhilarating music projects their sheer joy in playing together.


MATANA ROBERTS' ANTHEM (9:00pm)
Matana Roberts – saxophone
Liberty Ellman – guitar
tba – drums
Kevin Tkacz – bass

Internationally documented, Chicago-born, New York City-based sound experimentalist Matana (m(a)-ta-na\) Roberts, works in many performance/sound mediums including improvisation, dance, poetry, and theater. A dynamic saxophonist, composer, improviser and mixed media sound conceptualist, she aims to expose the mystical roots and the intuitive spirit raising traditions of American creative expression in her music and art. Her innovative work has forged new conceptual approaches to considering narrativity, history, and political expression within improvisatory structures.

Roberts has played with and alongside Rob Mazurek, Myra Melford, Vijay Iyer, Roscoe Mitchell, Greg Tate, Nicole Mitchell, Henry Grimes, Jayne Cortez, Seb Rochford, Fred Anderson, Latasha Diggs, George Lewis, Tyshawn Sorey, David Berhman, Pauline Oliveros, Reg E. Gaines, Daniel Givens, Savion Glover, Anthony Braxton, Kid Lucky, Liberty Ellman, Amina Claudine Meyers, Jeff Parker, Handsome Furs, Robert Mitchell, Quest Love, Julius Hemphill Sextet, Merce Cunningham, Joe Maneri, Beans, Bill T Jones, Josh Abrams, Chad Taylor, Dave Douglas, John Herndon just to name a few. She has recorded as a side person w/ groups as diverse as Godspeed You! Black Emperor, TV On The Radio, Savath & Savalas, Thee Silver Mt Zion, and performance artists My Barbarian.

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