Double Bill: Roger Kim’s Elliott Smith Hour / Karl Evangelista’s Grex
Youth Arts Lounge
See all New Frequencies Fest performances & events at http://ybca.org/new-frequencies-fest-jazz
A recent graduate of UC Berkeley and former student of Myra Melford and Brian Pardo, Roger Kim describes his music as swinging and contemplative, an expressive music that likes to “ask questions, take journeys, and describe sentiments.”
The Filipino American guitarist Karl Evangelista, former student of Myra Melford and graduate of the MA program at Mills College, is a fresh new voice in the Bay Area jazz scene, exploring an improvisational aesthetic that blends jazz, rock, western art music, contemporary sound and “noise” based art, and Filipino folk melody into a unique amalgamation of sounds reflecting his own life experience.
This year’s New Frequencies Fest devotes its entire program to jazz in the present tense while also paying tribute to the innovations of the 1960s and that decade’s impact on contemporary jazz and improvisational music. The festival is under the artistic direction of YBCA Artist-In-Residence Myra Melford and co-curated by music curator and Associate Director of Performing Arts Isabel Yrigoyen. The intrepid musical adventurer Melford headlines throughout the weekend in different configurations. Highlights include a performance by Henry Threadgill Double-Up, which pays tribute to jazz avant-garde composer, Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris, known for his distinctive form of large ensemble music built on conducted improvisation. Other highlights include a performance by Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter Angélique Kidjo, Ben Goldberg's Orphic Machine, local favorite bassist and composer Lisa Mezzacappa with a new work, avantNOIR, and alto saxophonist and interdisciplinary performer Matana Roberts’ Coin Coin Chapter Two: Moonchile, an ode to the stories she grew up hearing about her extended family, from its roots in Louisiana and Mississippi to its participation in the Great Migration north in the early 20th century. See more at http://ybca.org/new-frequencies-fest-jazz
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