Way Out West Concert Series - Karl Evangelista's Labas at Rendon Hall

California Jazz Conservatory Way Out West Concert Series! CJC's Way Out West Concert Series provides composer-performers from the Bay Area and beyond with a Tuesday evening showcase for forward-looking original work in jazz and related genres. Join us in Rendon Hall for Way Out West and Karl Evangelista's Labas! Filipino-American guitarist/composer Karl Evangelista is joined by an all-star cast of instrumentalists for ÒLabasÓ (Tagalog for "outside"), a journey through Filipino tradition and the immigrant experience by way of modern jazz and powerful sonic abstraction. Labas: Karl Evangelista - guitar, composition; Jordan Glenn - drums; Crystal Pascucci - cello; Rei Scampavia - keys; Cory Wright - alto saxophone...

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California Jazz Conservatory Way Out West Concert Series! CJC's Way Out West Concert Series provides composer-performers from the Bay Area and beyond with a Tuesday evening showcase for forward-looking original work in jazz and related genres. Join us in Rendon Hall for Way Out West and Karl Evangelista's Labas! Filipino-American guitarist/composer Karl Evangelista is joined by an all-star cast of instrumentalists for ÒLabasÓ (Tagalog for "outside"), a journey through Filipino tradition and the immigrant experience by way of modern jazz and powerful sonic abstraction. Labas: Karl Evangelista - guitar, composition; Jordan Glenn - drums; Crystal Pascucci - cello; Rei Scampavia - keys; Cory Wright - alto saxophone. Evangelista ranks among a new wave of musicians pushing the traditions of jazz and experimental rock into the 21st century. Hailed by Signal to Noise magazine as Òone of the most original instrumentalists and composers of his generation,Ó EvangelistaÕs music explores multicultural concepts with sonic intensity and political fervor. As part of boundary-breaking art rock duo Grex, Evangelista has toured nationwide over a dozen times, and his talents have led to work with the likes of Fred Frith, Louis Moholo-Moholo, Steve Berlin (Los Lobos), Scott Amendola, Ben Goldberg, Lewis Jordan, and Asian Improv aRts co-founder Francis Wong

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