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28
October
2025
Courtney Lemmon and George Kahn Trio
Jazz Tuesday
4
November
2025
Lia Booth Trio
Lia Booth – vocals
Miles Jensen – guitar
Ahmet Türkmenoğlu – bass
Lia Booth is one of the most captivating young jazz vocalists in Southern California. Her voice enchants even the most discerning listeners, and her artistry has earned admiration from both audiences and fellow musicians—a notoriously tough crowd to impress. With her warm tone, effortless swing, expressive phrasing, and remarkable command of harmony and scat singing, Lia truly stands out in today’s jazz scene.
11
November
2025
Sultans of Swing
Stephanie Barone - vocals
David Baird - guitar
Leo Chelyapov - sax/clarinet
Adam Cohen - bass
Stephanie Barone is a Los Angeles-based vocalist known for a soulful sound that blends the depth of jazz with the energy of swing. Inspired by the legendary voices of Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, and Anita O'Day, she brings timeless classics to life whether delivering a sultry ballad or an up-tempo swing number.
18
November
2025
Alfredo Caceres Gipsy and Latin Trio
Alfredo Cáceres - guitar
Josè Prieto - voice and guitar
Hector Torres - percussions
Born and raised in Guatemala City, Guatemala, Cáceres, a complete guitarist and composer, has been involved in a wide variety of projects and bands in styles ranging from World music, Flamenco, Jazz, Brazilian, Salsa, Pop and Latin. He has collaborated on several recordings in local and international productions, as well as in different festivals in the United States and in Europe. Alfredo has been living in the United States full-time since 2009, and has played alongside many different artists in the World Music arena, such as Persian singer Hamed Nikpay, guitarist Russ Hewitt, the Gypsy All Stars (of the Gipsy Kings family), Mario Reyes, and Marcus Nand (Ziroq), just to name a few.
In 2012, Cáceres released his first solo album in the U.S., one that involves a variety of his original compositions within the last ten years, recorded in his hometown of Guatemala and in Los Angeles, California.
25
November
2025
Louis Van Taylor Quartet
Jazz Tuesday
Louis Van Taylor – saxophone (former member of Kool & The Gang)
Mikal Majeed - organ
Greg Brown - drums
Damon Van Buren - guitar and vocals
Louis Van Taylor is an accomplished musician and educator whose career spans recording, performing, and teaching at the highest levels. As a saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist, he has recorded with legendary artists including Mariah Carey, Kool and the Gang, Mary J. Blige, Ray Charles, The Temptations, Smokey Robinson, Teena Marie, and many more. His live performance credits are equally impressive, featuring collaborations with icons such as Frank Sinatra Jr., Patrice Rushen, The Four Tops, Cameo, The Gap Band, and Les McCann.
Beyond the stage and studio, Taylor’s work extends to film, television, and commercials, with appearances and contributions to productions like Soul Men, Seinfeld, Star Trek: The Next Generation, What’s Love Got to Do With It, and Beyoncé’s Lemonade.
In addition to his prolific career as a performer, Taylor is also a dedicated educator, having served as an adjunct lecturer in Jazz Studies at the USC Thornton School of Music and as the first jazz artist-in-residence at Centennial High School through Theater of the Heart Youth First.
Peter Lodato
Diamonds/Divisions/Voids
Always fascinated by the uncertainty of human perception, and the duplicitous nature of vision, which can be both revealing and deceitful, Lodato creates paintings that delve into this duality. Upon first read they are austere, geometric abstractions. After further observation, however, the paintings begin to vibrate: brushstrokes become evident and the surface reveals that there are numerous layers beneath. The hard edges of his often bi-chromatic works dissipate into sensuous fields of color that seem to push space in and out. Lodato’s reductive, divided compositions are visual confrontations between the planar simplicity of form and the resonance of particular pigments. A disciple of the AbEx color field painter, Barnett Newman, Lodato’s sumptuously colored canvases echo Newman’s concept of using division as a way to merge different areas of the canvas into a sublime whole.
Art Exhibition | April 7 -April 30, 2024