Angel City Jazz Fest + Vernacular: Improvising [in] the West

Angel City Jazz Festival and Vernacular: New Music join forces again to assemble some of our finest local musicians in a program of small ensembles engaging in spontaneous musical creation.

Our first joint event in 2023 crossed a generational divide by combining veteran and emerging artists into duos and trios that were known only on the evening of the performance, resulting in eight sets of extraordinary music over five hours. Not content to simply repeat our success, this year we’re focusing on the creative topography of the West. A diverse group of musical artists are invited to contemplate and reflect, as improvisers, on some aspect of the West and their relationship to it. Please join us for an exciting evening of wide-open sonic exploration.