Jesse will create visuals for Wadada Leo Smith’s CREATE Festival at The Lab in San Francisco, CA on December 15-16, 2017.

Venue:  The Lab
2948 16th St.
San Francisco, CA

 

Friday, December 15
Concert: 8:00pm

Lamar Smith / Hardedge / Pheeroan akLaff:   New Piece / South Central L.A.

Lamar Smith—guitar
Hardedge—soundesign
Pheeroan akLaff—drums

 

Wadada Leo Smith’s Silence:

Wadada Leo Smith—trumpet
David Leikam—Moog synthesizer
Anthony Davis—piano

 

RedKoral Quartet: Pacifica, String Quartet No. 12B  

RedKoral Quartet:
Shalini Vijayan—violin
Mona Thian—violin
Andrew McIntosh—viola
Ashley Walters—cello
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Wadada Leo Smith—trumpet
Hardedge—soundesign

 

 

BREAK

 

Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quintet: America’s National Parks

(New Orleans The National Culture Park USA 1718;
Eileen Jackson Southern, 1920-2002 A Literary National Park; Yellowstone The First National Park and the Spirit of America – The Mountains, Super-Volcano Caldera and Its Ecosystem 1872)

Wadada Leo Smith—trumpet
Anthony Davis—piano
Ashley Walters—cello
John Lindberg—bass
Pheeroan akLaff—drums
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Jesse Gilbert—video artist

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Saturday, December 16:

Performance Workshop That Introduces the Ankhrasmation Symbolic Language Scores:   1:00pm – 3:00pm

All Instruments are welcomed
Fee: $50 per person

Concert: 8:00pm

Wadada Leo Smith’s Earth:

Wadada Leo Smith—trumpet
Motoko Honda—piano
Soo Yeon Lyuh—haegeum
William Winant—percussion

ROVA: Saxophone Quartet No. 1
Ma’d-Din, in memory of Sufi Master, Cerno Bokar Saalif Taal

Bruce Ackley—soprano & tenor saxophones
Larry Ochs—tenor & sopranino saxophones
Jon Raskin—baritone, alto & sopranino saxophones
Steve Adams—alto & sopranino saxophones

Wadada Leo Smith’s Pacifica: Koral Reef

Wadada Leo Smith—trumpet
Henry Kaiser—guitar
John Lindberg—bass

 

BREAK

 

Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quintet: America’s National Parks

(The Mississippi River Dark and Deep Dreams Flow the River – a National Memorial Park c. 5000 BC; Sequoia Kings Canyon National Parks The Giant Forest, Great Canyon, Cliffs, Peaks, Waterfalls and Cave Systems 1890; Yosemite The Glaciers, the Falls, the Wells and the Valley of Goodwill 1890)

Wadada Leo Smith—trumpet
Anthony Davis—piano
Ashley Walters—cello
John Lindberg—bass
Pheeroan akLaff—drums
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Jesse Gilbert—video artist