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Karl Evangelista's Apura With Special Guest Andrew Cyrille at California Jazz Conservatory

Courtesy of Jonathan Poretz | Posted on February 24, 2020

Where

California Jazz Conservatory
2087 Addison Street
Berkeley, CA
Map
510-845-5373

Karl Evangelista's Apura With Special Guest Andrew Cyrille  at California Jazz Conservatory

When

Fri, May 22, 2020
8:00 pm

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Musicians

About

Filipino-American guitarist/composer Karl Evangelista presents Apura (Tagalog for “Very Urgent”), a thrilling new composition meant to explore the relationship between jazz-based musical improvisation and social transformation in an era of worldwide political upheaval.

Apura uses original musical content, live projection, and spoken word components to tie the revolutionary music of the past to the activist music of the present day, touching on American, South African, and Filipino musical traditions.

Apura unites two veteran musicians, legendary jazz drummer Andrew Cyrille (in for the great Louis Moholo-Moholo, the project's original 4th member) and Asian American Jazz icon Francis Wong, with firebrand pianist Alexander Hawkins (UK) and experimental music powerhouse Evangelista....

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