Oakland Active Music Series: Free Improv Jazz Concerts | 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, November 13, 2012
Stratic, Jon Raskin’s “The Long Table,” & Zachary Watkins | Oakland Active Music Series: Free Improv Jazz Concerts | The Uptown

• Stratic creates avant-jazz, post-rock, experimental, improvised music that rejects traditional structure and combines acoustics & electronics into three distinct layers of sound.
• Performing the premier of “The Long Table ” composed by Jon Raskin with several musical main courses, some palate cleansers, conversation and possibly an Amuse-Bouche.
• Californian sound artist Zachary James Watkins has a seasoned background in composition that boasts multiple degrees, awards and commissions.

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