Tuesday, October 1 | 7PM @ CalArts
Wednesday, October 2 | 8PM @ CalArts
Thursday, October 3 | 4:30PM @ CalArts
Friday, October 4 | 1PM @ CalArts
Saturday, October 5 | 3:30PM @ 2220 Arts + Archives
The October Revolution in Jazz 60th Anniversary (ORJ 60) is a five-day interdisciplinary event celebrating the transformative power of free improvisation and collectivity. Inspired by the original at New York’s Cellar Club in 1964, ORJ 60 will honor the legacy of musician-composer, artist, and professor Bill Dixon music director of the original ORJ) with a diverse program of presentations, panels, and music performances at CalArts and 2220 Arts + Archives.
Tuesday, October 1
Deep Cuts from the October Revolution Archive
- Listening | 7:00 pm | Room G201
View deep cuts from the improvised music visual archive moderated by music historian and record producer Ben Young
- Screening | 8:00 pm | Room G201
William Roper’s Sidelining the Sidemen and Women with Q&A to follow
Wednesday, October 2
An Evening of Improvised Music | Quartets
- Performance | 8:00 pm | Roy O. Disney Concert Hall
- Part I: Intangible | Tim Feeney (percussion), gamin (piri), Robert Reigle (tenor saxophone), Jeff Schwartz (bass)\]
- Part II: High Desert Sounding’s T.J. Borden (cello) + UMN professor Kyle Motl (bass) with the powerful reeds duo Vinny Golia + Catherine Sikora
Thursday, October 3
Making Space in Art and Pedagogy
- Panel Discussion | 4:30 pm | F200
Paul Branch Lecture Series discussion moderated by Michael Ned Holte (Art), fellow CalArts faculty members Eyvind Kang (Music), Ariel Osterweis (Dance), Def Sound (Music) and REDCAT Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Performing Arts Katy Dammers
- Open Rehearsal | 8:00 pm | Location A300
Open rehearsal with You, Me + the Whales Arkestra
Friday, October 4
Critical Studies and Improvisation
- Presentation | 1 pm | Cafe B
ORJ 60 music director and Critical Studies MA 2 Stanley J. Zappa presents a slideshow and talk titled Free Jazz Social Network Analysis
- Lecture | 4 pm | Langley Hall
Music historian Ben Young presents Bill Dixon and the October Revolution in Jazz
- Conversation | 6:30 pm | Langley Hall
Open discussion on Black Music aesthetics
- Performance | 8:00 pm | Langley Hall
Catherine Sikora Trio open rehearsal with Nick Skrowaczewski (percussion) and Stanley Zappa (reeds) with special guests TBA
Saturday, October 5
October Revoluation in Jazz 60th Anniverary + Bill Dixon Birthday Celebration
Venue
2220 Arts + Archives
2220 Beverly Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90057
TICKETS
- Screening | 3:30-4:00
Film Premiere | BILL DIXON: A Personal Portrait, (1979, 23.5 mn) by Bill Dixon and his student Steve Albahari. Features a Dixon quartet with Lawrence Cook (drums), John Voight (bass), Mario Pavone (bass).
- Spinning | 4-5 pm | Triple Point Records | Rare Cuts from the Dixon Archive with Ben Young
- Conversation | 5-6 pm
Revolution in Context with Bobby Bradford, Hamza Walker + Ben Young
- Performance | 6:30-10:30
➫ Catherine Sikora (tenor saxophone) Trio with Nick Skrowaczewski (percussion) and Stanley J. Zappa (reeds)
➫ Grace Dashnaw (cello), Elif Dinçer (harp), M A Harms (percussion) Trio
➫ Bobby Bradford (trumpet) + Vinny Golia (reeds) Duo
➫ T. J. Borden (cello), Kyle Motl (bass), Vinny Golia (reeds), Catherine Sikora (tenor saxophone) Quartet
➫ You, Me + the Whales Arkestra with Special Guest Catherine Sikora
- Devin Burgenbauch (double bass, bells)
- Zac Burgenbauch (conduction, electric guitar, lap steel guitar, bells)
- Levy Barlevy (trombone, bells)
- Ivan Cunningham (alto saxophone, bells)
- Grace Dashnaw (cello, bells)
- Elif Dinçer (harp, bells)
- Vinny Golia (tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, bells)
- Alex Grant (double bass, bells)
- M A Harms (vibraphone, percussion, bells)
- Lucas Lenny (drumset, bells)
- Mason Moy (tuba, bells)
- David Otis (alto saxophone, bells)
- Marc Perez (trombone, bells)
- Brody Scott (baritone saxophone, bells)
- Drew Sensue-Weinstein (field recordings, oscillators, bells)
- Nick Skrowaczewski (percussion, bells)
- Brandon "Grump" Smith (flute, bells)
- Simone Summers (trumpet, bells)
- Shane Vincent (trumpet, bells
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