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theBABAorchestra

Program Series

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

Music & Performance

Motoko Honda’s Simple Excesses

Pianist-composer-improviser Motoko Honda leads a quartet of some of Northern California’s most inventive players.

Thu Aug 2 2018 8:00 PM

theBABAorchestra

Music & Performance

Lauren Elizabeth Baba: theBABAorchestra

Lauren Elizabeth Baba leads L.A.’s brightest improvisers through compositions that meld free jazz, contemporary classical, drone rock, and Middle Eastern folk music.

Thu Aug 9 2018 8:00 PM

The Tiptons Sax Quartet

Music & Performance

The Tiptons Sax Quartet

Musicians play an original repertoire influenced by New Orleans jazz, gospel, bluegrass, klezmer, and Balkan music.

Thu Aug 16 2018 8:00 PM