Free Jazz Show featuring the acclaimed drummer Marcus Gilmore! Marcus grew up in Queens, 10 minutes from JCAL. His grandfather is the legendary drummer Roy Haynes. Marcus has performed with some of today’s best known contemporary jazz artists, including Chick…
About Lesley Mok — Lesley Mok is a drummer, composer, and improviser based in Brooklyn, NY. Interested in the ways social conditions shape our beings, Lesley’s work focuses on transposing, augmenting, and overacting humanness to explore ideas about normalcy, alienness, and…
Take part in a hands-on workshop, learning basic musical improvisation alongside jazz artist Lesley Mok. Lesley will introduce a structural improvisation method called Conduction Technique which was pioneered by American cornetist, composer, and improviser Butch Morris. The class will consist…
Since Moving to New York, She has played with many greats such as Joel Frahm, Joe Magnarelli, Steve Nelson, Charli Persip and many others around the NYC area in highly renown venues such as Mezzrow, Smalls jazz, The Jazz Standard,…
A night of Jazz with the award winning pianist, composer, improviser, electronics musician and composer. Join us for an exciting in-person performance at JCAL! Kengchakaj Kengkarnka makes music to build meaningful connections among audiences, collaborators, and communities with the larger…
This event will pair Danny Simmons — the Co Creator of Def Poetry Jam and an accomplished Author, Poet and Painter — with legendary two-time Grammy-winning bassist Ron Carter, whose appearances on 2,221 recording sessions make him the most-recorded jazz…