The events page and calendar for San Pedro and the Harbor Area
San Jose, CA-based bassist Ken Okada began arranging big band charts during his college years in the ’90s in Japan and has been composing music ever since. His work is heavily influenced by Japanese/American jazz fusion, video game music, and modern/contemporary big band sounds. In 2022, Ken met and jammed with then-13-year-old drumming prodigy Yoyoka. Read More ...
The Joshua Christian Childress quartet features original compositions that fuses both the r&b elements from black music with modern jazz. Along with original arrangements from compositions of Cedar Walton, Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane. Joshua is a graduate of Biola University and CSULB and has played with Ernie Watts, Wayne Bergeron, Will Brahm and more. Read More ...
Musicians & Poets! Come on down to the Grand Annex on the second Thursday of each month for Open Mic Night! To perform: Sign up at 6:30pm. The first 12 sign-ups are guaranteed to perform, with additional artists as time allows. Plan to do 2 songs/poems (limit stage time to under 8 minutes). This is Read More ...
Open Jazz Jam - all welcome! Collage: A Place for Art & Culture, 731 S. Pacific Avenue, San Pedro, CA 90731 Open Jazz Jam - all welcome! meets on third Wednesdays each month. Catch a groove as we play through jazz standards and free jams for two hours of creative improvisation. We have a piano Read More ...
Open Rock & Blues Jam THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 7 PM Enjoy riffing on classic rock and blues tunes and doing some free improvisations? Bring your instrument to Collage on the third Thursday of each month for a session conducted by Mark Warnholz. We’ll have the keyboard and drums ready, just bring your guitars or basses Read More ...