Oakland Active Music: Free Improv Jazz Concert | The Uptown

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Oakland Active Music Series: Free Improv Jazz Concerts | The Uptown

Oakland Active Orchestra performs a free ongoing monthly residence at The Uptown in Oakland on every second Tuesday of the month.

Oakland Active Orchestra explores various innovative and traditional techniques in composition and free improvisation. Each month, new compositions written by members of the fourteen piece ensemble will be presented and two other groups will perform.

Doors open at 9 pm. Show starts at 9:30 pm. There’s no cover, but donations are welcome.

The Uptown Nightclub is closed as of November 6, 2014.

Tuesday, April 8, 2014
ethno-slacker psych prog | Oakland Active Music Series: Free Improv Jazz Concerts | The Uptown

Active Music Series presents Cash Pony, Tujurikkuja and Damon Smith (Houston):

• Cash Pony is ethno-slacker psych prog algebra slamdunk music from Oakland CA. Owen Kelley, Guitar; Charles Lloyd, Guitar/Sitar; Ian Saxton, drums; Stevo Wright, bass.
• Tujurikkuja is an ambient noise project from Christian Dixon (Earth Jerks, Death Sentence: PANDA!, Murder Murder) and Joshua Kit Clayton (Orthlorng Musork, ~scape, Mille Plateaux).
• Damon Smith returns to the Bay Area for the first time since August 2010. Improvisations with Aram Shelton, alto saxophone; Scott Looney, keyboard; Jacob Felix Heule, percussion.

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