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SUMMARY:Ben Folds – Tis the Season
DESCRIPTION:Ben Folds is widely regarded as one of the major music influencers of our generation. \nThe Emmy-nominated singer-songwriter-composer has created an enormous body of genre-bending music that includes pop albums with Ben Folds Five\, multiple solo albums\, and numerous collaborative records. \nHis latest pop solo album What Matters Most was released in 2023 to rave reviews and sold-out performances. He recently released his first Christmas album Sleigher in time for the 2024 holiday season\, and recently record a LIVE album with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in DC slated for release in 2025. \nHe currently tours as a pop artist\, while also performing with some of the world’s greatest symphony orchestras and serving in his 8th year as the first ever Artistic Advisor to the NSO. In his role as Artistic Advisor\, Folds curates an ongoing concert series called “Declassified: Ben Folds Presents\,” which pairs contemporary artists from all genres of music with the NSO. \nA New York Times Best Selling author and former podcast host\, Ben is also working on new compositions for film\, tv and theatre. He also frequently guest stars in films and TV. \nIn 2022\, Ben launched a music education charitable initiative in his native state of North Carolina entitled “Keys For Kids\,” which provides funds and keyboards to existing nonprofits that offer free or affordable piano lessons to school-age children from economically-disadvantaged households. And he continually advocates for improving public policies for the arts and arts education on the national level as a member of Americans For The Arts and the Arts Action Fund.
URL:https://www.discoverhollywood.com/event/ben-folds-tis-the-season/2025-12-11/1/
LOCATION:Blue Note Jazz Club
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SUMMARY:Theo Croker
DESCRIPTION:Theo Croker is a storyteller who speaks through his trumpet. A creative who refuses boundaries\, the GRAMMY Award-nominated artist\, composer\, producer\, thought leader\, and influencer projects his voice through the music. After seven years of sojourn in Shanghai\, Croker crash-landed with a simmering original sound on the 2014 Dee Dee Bridgewater-assisted album “Afro Physicist”. Following the success of “Escape Velocity” in 2016\, he ascended to a new stratosphere with “Star People Nation” in 2019. The record garnered a nomination in the category of “Best Contemporary Instrumental Album” at the 62nd GRAMMY Awards. It attracted widespread critical acclaim including The New York Times who called it “an album that gallivants from swirling\, left-field hip-hop beats to propellant swing to entrancing passages of African percussion. Through it all\, Croker’s understated trumpet playing holds his small band together with swagger and poise.” Along the way\, he also lent his sound to platinum selling albums by everyone from J. Cole to Ari Lennox while touring his band across the globe many times over. In 2020\, he hunkered down at his childhood home in the midst of the Global Pandemic and wrote his sixth full-length album\, “BLK2LIFE || A FUTURE PAST” [Sony Music Masterworks]. BLK2LIFE || A FUTURE PAST is a contemporary oratorio inspired by the forgotten hero’s journey of becoming through the universal origins of blackness. On the record\, Theo unpacks moments of heroism\, trials\, tribulations\, awakenings\, and apotheosis within a musical pastiche brought to life by a myriad of fellow cultural renegades and threaded together by his playing. Traditions of the past\, foundations in the present\, & explorations of the future. A sonic celebration & reclamation of Afro-origin. BLK2THEFUTURE
URL:https://www.discoverhollywood.com/event/theo-croker/2025-12-10/2/
LOCATION:Blue Note Jazz Club
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SUMMARY:Theo Croker
DESCRIPTION:Theo Croker is a storyteller who speaks through his trumpet. A creative who refuses boundaries\, the GRAMMY Award-nominated artist\, composer\, producer\, thought leader\, and influencer projects his voice through the music. After seven years of sojourn in Shanghai\, Croker crash-landed with a simmering original sound on the 2014 Dee Dee Bridgewater-assisted album “Afro Physicist”. Following the success of “Escape Velocity” in 2016\, he ascended to a new stratosphere with “Star People Nation” in 2019. The record garnered a nomination in the category of “Best Contemporary Instrumental Album” at the 62nd GRAMMY Awards. It attracted widespread critical acclaim including The New York Times who called it “an album that gallivants from swirling\, left-field hip-hop beats to propellant swing to entrancing passages of African percussion. Through it all\, Croker’s understated trumpet playing holds his small band together with swagger and poise.” Along the way\, he also lent his sound to platinum selling albums by everyone from J. Cole to Ari Lennox while touring his band across the globe many times over. In 2020\, he hunkered down at his childhood home in the midst of the Global Pandemic and wrote his sixth full-length album\, “BLK2LIFE || A FUTURE PAST” [Sony Music Masterworks]. BLK2LIFE || A FUTURE PAST is a contemporary oratorio inspired by the forgotten hero’s journey of becoming through the universal origins of blackness. On the record\, Theo unpacks moments of heroism\, trials\, tribulations\, awakenings\, and apotheosis within a musical pastiche brought to life by a myriad of fellow cultural renegades and threaded together by his playing. Traditions of the past\, foundations in the present\, & explorations of the future. A sonic celebration & reclamation of Afro-origin. BLK2THEFUTURE
URL:https://www.discoverhollywood.com/event/theo-croker/2025-12-10/1/
LOCATION:Blue Note Jazz Club
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SUMMARY:Keyon Harrold
DESCRIPTION:Keyon Harrold is a Grammy Award-winning trumpeter\, composer\, and producer celebrated for his masterful ability to blend jazz with elements of hip-hop\, neo-soul\, rock\, and blues\, creating a sound uniquely reflective of the modern American experience. Hailing from Ferguson\, Missouri\, his music often carries themes of social justice and personal resilience\, which are vividly explored in his critically acclaimed albums like The Mugician (a portmanteau of ‘musician’ and ‘magician’) and his recent release\, Foreverland. Harrold’s distinctively warm and commanding trumpet sound has made him one of the most in-demand session musicians in the industry; he is known for providing the “trumpet voice” for Miles Davis in the biopic Miles Ahead and has collaborated with a vast array of legends including Beyoncé\, Jay-Z\, D’Angelo\, Common\, and his frequent bandmate and New School classmate\, Robert Glasper. His career showcases a rare versatility\, moving seamlessly from the improvisational rigor of jazz clubs to the pop sensibility of mainstream music.
URL:https://www.discoverhollywood.com/event/keyon-harrold/2025-12-10/
LOCATION:Blue Note Jazz Club
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SUMMARY:Theo Croker
DESCRIPTION:Theo Croker is a storyteller who speaks through his trumpet. A creative who refuses boundaries\, the GRAMMY Award-nominated artist\, composer\, producer\, thought leader\, and influencer projects his voice through the music. After seven years of sojourn in Shanghai\, Croker crash-landed with a simmering original sound on the 2014 Dee Dee Bridgewater-assisted album “Afro Physicist”. Following the success of “Escape Velocity” in 2016\, he ascended to a new stratosphere with “Star People Nation” in 2019. The record garnered a nomination in the category of “Best Contemporary Instrumental Album” at the 62nd GRAMMY Awards. It attracted widespread critical acclaim including The New York Times who called it “an album that gallivants from swirling\, left-field hip-hop beats to propellant swing to entrancing passages of African percussion. Through it all\, Croker’s understated trumpet playing holds his small band together with swagger and poise.” Along the way\, he also lent his sound to platinum selling albums by everyone from J. Cole to Ari Lennox while touring his band across the globe many times over. In 2020\, he hunkered down at his childhood home in the midst of the Global Pandemic and wrote his sixth full-length album\, “BLK2LIFE || A FUTURE PAST” [Sony Music Masterworks]. BLK2LIFE || A FUTURE PAST is a contemporary oratorio inspired by the forgotten hero’s journey of becoming through the universal origins of blackness. On the record\, Theo unpacks moments of heroism\, trials\, tribulations\, awakenings\, and apotheosis within a musical pastiche brought to life by a myriad of fellow cultural renegades and threaded together by his playing. Traditions of the past\, foundations in the present\, & explorations of the future. A sonic celebration & reclamation of Afro-origin. BLK2THEFUTURE
URL:https://www.discoverhollywood.com/event/theo-croker/2025-12-09/2/
LOCATION:Blue Note Jazz Club
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SUMMARY:Theo Croker
DESCRIPTION:Theo Croker is a storyteller who speaks through his trumpet. A creative who refuses boundaries\, the GRAMMY Award-nominated artist\, composer\, producer\, thought leader\, and influencer projects his voice through the music. After seven years of sojourn in Shanghai\, Croker crash-landed with a simmering original sound on the 2014 Dee Dee Bridgewater-assisted album “Afro Physicist”. Following the success of “Escape Velocity” in 2016\, he ascended to a new stratosphere with “Star People Nation” in 2019. The record garnered a nomination in the category of “Best Contemporary Instrumental Album” at the 62nd GRAMMY Awards. It attracted widespread critical acclaim including The New York Times who called it “an album that gallivants from swirling\, left-field hip-hop beats to propellant swing to entrancing passages of African percussion. Through it all\, Croker’s understated trumpet playing holds his small band together with swagger and poise.” Along the way\, he also lent his sound to platinum selling albums by everyone from J. Cole to Ari Lennox while touring his band across the globe many times over. In 2020\, he hunkered down at his childhood home in the midst of the Global Pandemic and wrote his sixth full-length album\, “BLK2LIFE || A FUTURE PAST” [Sony Music Masterworks]. BLK2LIFE || A FUTURE PAST is a contemporary oratorio inspired by the forgotten hero’s journey of becoming through the universal origins of blackness. On the record\, Theo unpacks moments of heroism\, trials\, tribulations\, awakenings\, and apotheosis within a musical pastiche brought to life by a myriad of fellow cultural renegades and threaded together by his playing. Traditions of the past\, foundations in the present\, & explorations of the future. A sonic celebration & reclamation of Afro-origin. BLK2THEFUTURE
URL:https://www.discoverhollywood.com/event/theo-croker/2025-12-09/1/
LOCATION:Blue Note Jazz Club
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SUMMARY:Keyon Harrold
DESCRIPTION:Keyon Harrold is a Grammy Award-winning trumpeter\, composer\, and producer celebrated for his masterful ability to blend jazz with elements of hip-hop\, neo-soul\, rock\, and blues\, creating a sound uniquely reflective of the modern American experience. Hailing from Ferguson\, Missouri\, his music often carries themes of social justice and personal resilience\, which are vividly explored in his critically acclaimed albums like The Mugician (a portmanteau of ‘musician’ and ‘magician’) and his recent release\, Foreverland. Harrold’s distinctively warm and commanding trumpet sound has made him one of the most in-demand session musicians in the industry; he is known for providing the “trumpet voice” for Miles Davis in the biopic Miles Ahead and has collaborated with a vast array of legends including Beyoncé\, Jay-Z\, D’Angelo\, Common\, and his frequent bandmate and New School classmate\, Robert Glasper. His career showcases a rare versatility\, moving seamlessly from the improvisational rigor of jazz clubs to the pop sensibility of mainstream music.
URL:https://www.discoverhollywood.com/event/keyon-harrold/2025-12-09/
LOCATION:Blue Note Jazz Club
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SUMMARY:James Fauntleroy
DESCRIPTION:James is a four time Grammy Award winner and one of the most influential songwriters of his generation. He recently co-wrote “Die With A Smile” by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars\, which won an award at the 2025 Grammys\, hit No. 1 (5 wks) on Billboard and became the fastest song to reach 1 billion streams on Spotify on its way to topping the platforms global chart for 200+ days – the longest in the apps history. James also co-wrote seven songs on Bruno Mars’ multi–Grammy-winning album 24K Magic\, including That’s What I Like\, which earned Song of the Year and made him the first [pure] songwriter to ever win an Album of the Year Grammy. \nHis songwriting and production credits span some of the most iconic artists in music\, including: \n25 songs with Justin Timberlake \n12 songs with Rihanna (James wrote a song on Rihanna’s last album ANTI that she named after him\, called James Joint) \n9 with Chris Brown \n5 with Beyoncé \nJay-Z’s “On The Run”\, as well as collaborations with Kendrick Lamar\, Drake\, Nipsey Hussle\, Travis Scott\, J. Cole\, Nas\, Big Sean\, A$AP Rocky\, and many others as an artist. \nBeyond that\, James has co-written or produced songs performed by artists like John Legend\, SZA\, Stevie Wonder\, Frank Ocean\, Mariah Carey\, Brandy\, Usher\, Jhene Aiko\, Kelly Clarkson\, David Archuleta\, Pet Shop Boys\, and even Britney Spears—among countless others. \nAlongside music\, Fauntleroy has a background in 3d modeling\, web design\, and coding. In 2022 James collaborated with Disney to create a 12-ft statue and a collectible run of 100\,000 mini replicas for Disney’s centennial celebration. Video of Bob Chapek introducing James & the project.
URL:https://www.discoverhollywood.com/event/james-fauntleroy/2025-12-08/2/
LOCATION:Blue Note Jazz Club
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SUMMARY:James Fauntleroy
DESCRIPTION:James is a four time Grammy Award winner and one of the most influential songwriters of his generation. He recently co-wrote “Die With A Smile” by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars\, which won an award at the 2025 Grammys\, hit No. 1 (5 wks) on Billboard and became the fastest song to reach 1 billion streams on Spotify on its way to topping the platforms global chart for 200+ days – the longest in the apps history. James also co-wrote seven songs on Bruno Mars’ multi–Grammy-winning album 24K Magic\, including That’s What I Like\, which earned Song of the Year and made him the first [pure] songwriter to ever win an Album of the Year Grammy. \nHis songwriting and production credits span some of the most iconic artists in music\, including: \n25 songs with Justin Timberlake \n12 songs with Rihanna (James wrote a song on Rihanna’s last album ANTI that she named after him\, called James Joint) \n9 with Chris Brown \n5 with Beyoncé \nJay-Z’s “On The Run”\, as well as collaborations with Kendrick Lamar\, Drake\, Nipsey Hussle\, Travis Scott\, J. Cole\, Nas\, Big Sean\, A$AP Rocky\, and many others as an artist. \nBeyond that\, James has co-written or produced songs performed by artists like John Legend\, SZA\, Stevie Wonder\, Frank Ocean\, Mariah Carey\, Brandy\, Usher\, Jhene Aiko\, Kelly Clarkson\, David Archuleta\, Pet Shop Boys\, and even Britney Spears—among countless others. \nAlongside music\, Fauntleroy has a background in 3d modeling\, web design\, and coding. In 2022 James collaborated with Disney to create a 12-ft statue and a collectible run of 100\,000 mini replicas for Disney’s centennial celebration. Video of Bob Chapek introducing James & the project.
URL:https://www.discoverhollywood.com/event/james-fauntleroy/2025-12-08/1/
LOCATION:Blue Note Jazz Club
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SUMMARY:Derrick Hodge
DESCRIPTION:Derrick Hodge is one of contemporary music’s most complete and complex artists. Also lauded as a composer\, he is revered as one of the great bassists and musicians of his generation and his solo projects—Live Today (2013)\, The Second (2016)\, and Color of Noize (2020)—have been met with praise from critics and audiences alike. His albums are rich\, raw and revelatory\, reflecting his roots in the church\, a passion for hip hop\, and an eternal reverence for melody and classical composition. Like the artist\, Hodge’s music contains multitudes. \nGrowing up just outside Philadelphia\, Hodge cut his teeth in the city’s neo-soul movement. At college\, he became the bass player and musical director of choice for pioneers like Jill Scott\, Maxwell\, Floetry\, Nas\, Common\, James Poyser and Musiq Soulchild. At the same time\, he played in his university’s orchestra and in jazz circles with legendary musicians including Terence Blanchard\, Donald Byrd\, Mulgrew Miller and Bootsie Barnes. \nHodge has played a role in countless groundbreaking projects and historic firsts. In 2022\, he directed the music for the Academy Awards and arranged for Nas’s performance at the Grammys. As part of CNN’S Juneteenth celebration\, he conducted the first all Black orchestra to perform at the Hollywood Bowl. In 2014 Hodge became the first Black composer to compose Hip Hop for the National Symphony when he acted as orchestral arranger and music director for the 20th anniversary celebration of Illmatic. Named one of the top moments in hip hop history by Fender Magazine\, it was the first time hip hop was ever performed by the National Symphony Orchestra. He was also the first Black composer to write strings for hip hop at Carnegie Hall and the first Black composer to write symphonic music for hip hop with the Houston Symphony. \nHodge has devoted himself to projects that elevate and animate the African American legacy: the struggle but also—and always—the poetry and the triumph too. It is this ability to honor and advance both culture and people that is the principle thread which weaves together Hodge’s work. He was commissioned to write music for permanent exhibitions at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. He has scored\, composed\, and consulted for a plethora of small and big screen works\, including The Black Candle\, a groundbreaking documentary about Kwanzaa narrated by Maya Angelou\, and Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans\, and the 2020 blockbuster The Photograph. While Hodge often lends his talents to the specific set of cinema and storytelling which chronicles Blackness in the U.S.\, he is also awake to the universal nuances of the human experience. His music tells stories that are simultaneously of a people\, and of the people. \nHodge has founded and played in bands and groups as diverse and as influential as R+R=Now\, the Robert Glasper Experiment\, and The Blue Note All Stars. As a producer he has collaborated with icons including Quincy Jones\, Don Was\, and Common. As a musical director he has worked with luminaries including Yasiin Bey and\, from 2009 to 2019\, Maxwell. \nThe Color of Noize project is Hodge’s signature concept-series\, bringing together contrasting sounds\, styles to create an immersive audio-visual experience. Color of Noize premiered in 2019 as part of Hodge’s artist residency at Monterey Jazz Festival\, where he brought together a collection of musicians\, some as young as four\, to explore his compositions in a remarkably moving and beautiful concert. As he puts it “it was never just my potential that made things happen; it was my community advocating for me—now I want to advocate for others\, to pass that on”. \nWhether collaborating with giants\, writing for the big screen\, forging new paths for orchestral composition\, or providing access to his symphonic scores and original arrangements to HBCUs and inner city music programs\, his work always contains social commentary\, awareness\, or insight. Here we find the fundamental character of Hodge; an incurably hopeful man\, who\, through his work and his art\, has made the world a definitively more beautiful place.
URL:https://www.discoverhollywood.com/event/derrick-hodge/2025-12-07/2/
LOCATION:Blue Note Jazz Club
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SUMMARY:Derrick Hodge
DESCRIPTION:Derrick Hodge is one of contemporary music’s most complete and complex artists. Also lauded as a composer\, he is revered as one of the great bassists and musicians of his generation and his solo projects—Live Today (2013)\, The Second (2016)\, and Color of Noize (2020)—have been met with praise from critics and audiences alike. His albums are rich\, raw and revelatory\, reflecting his roots in the church\, a passion for hip hop\, and an eternal reverence for melody and classical composition. Like the artist\, Hodge’s music contains multitudes. \nGrowing up just outside Philadelphia\, Hodge cut his teeth in the city’s neo-soul movement. At college\, he became the bass player and musical director of choice for pioneers like Jill Scott\, Maxwell\, Floetry\, Nas\, Common\, James Poyser and Musiq Soulchild. At the same time\, he played in his university’s orchestra and in jazz circles with legendary musicians including Terence Blanchard\, Donald Byrd\, Mulgrew Miller and Bootsie Barnes. \nHodge has played a role in countless groundbreaking projects and historic firsts. In 2022\, he directed the music for the Academy Awards and arranged for Nas’s performance at the Grammys. As part of CNN’S Juneteenth celebration\, he conducted the first all Black orchestra to perform at the Hollywood Bowl. In 2014 Hodge became the first Black composer to compose Hip Hop for the National Symphony when he acted as orchestral arranger and music director for the 20th anniversary celebration of Illmatic. Named one of the top moments in hip hop history by Fender Magazine\, it was the first time hip hop was ever performed by the National Symphony Orchestra. He was also the first Black composer to write strings for hip hop at Carnegie Hall and the first Black composer to write symphonic music for hip hop with the Houston Symphony. \nHodge has devoted himself to projects that elevate and animate the African American legacy: the struggle but also—and always—the poetry and the triumph too. It is this ability to honor and advance both culture and people that is the principle thread which weaves together Hodge’s work. He was commissioned to write music for permanent exhibitions at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. He has scored\, composed\, and consulted for a plethora of small and big screen works\, including The Black Candle\, a groundbreaking documentary about Kwanzaa narrated by Maya Angelou\, and Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans\, and the 2020 blockbuster The Photograph. While Hodge often lends his talents to the specific set of cinema and storytelling which chronicles Blackness in the U.S.\, he is also awake to the universal nuances of the human experience. His music tells stories that are simultaneously of a people\, and of the people. \nHodge has founded and played in bands and groups as diverse and as influential as R+R=Now\, the Robert Glasper Experiment\, and The Blue Note All Stars. As a producer he has collaborated with icons including Quincy Jones\, Don Was\, and Common. As a musical director he has worked with luminaries including Yasiin Bey and\, from 2009 to 2019\, Maxwell. \nThe Color of Noize project is Hodge’s signature concept-series\, bringing together contrasting sounds\, styles to create an immersive audio-visual experience. Color of Noize premiered in 2019 as part of Hodge’s artist residency at Monterey Jazz Festival\, where he brought together a collection of musicians\, some as young as four\, to explore his compositions in a remarkably moving and beautiful concert. As he puts it “it was never just my potential that made things happen; it was my community advocating for me—now I want to advocate for others\, to pass that on”. \nWhether collaborating with giants\, writing for the big screen\, forging new paths for orchestral composition\, or providing access to his symphonic scores and original arrangements to HBCUs and inner city music programs\, his work always contains social commentary\, awareness\, or insight. Here we find the fundamental character of Hodge; an incurably hopeful man\, who\, through his work and his art\, has made the world a definitively more beautiful place.
URL:https://www.discoverhollywood.com/event/derrick-hodge/2025-12-07/1/
LOCATION:Blue Note Jazz Club
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SUMMARY:Derrick Hodge
DESCRIPTION:Derrick Hodge is one of contemporary music’s most complete and complex artists. Also lauded as a composer\, he is revered as one of the great bassists and musicians of his generation and his solo projects—Live Today (2013)\, The Second (2016)\, and Color of Noize (2020)—have been met with praise from critics and audiences alike. His albums are rich\, raw and revelatory\, reflecting his roots in the church\, a passion for hip hop\, and an eternal reverence for melody and classical composition. Like the artist\, Hodge’s music contains multitudes. \nGrowing up just outside Philadelphia\, Hodge cut his teeth in the city’s neo-soul movement. At college\, he became the bass player and musical director of choice for pioneers like Jill Scott\, Maxwell\, Floetry\, Nas\, Common\, James Poyser and Musiq Soulchild. At the same time\, he played in his university’s orchestra and in jazz circles with legendary musicians including Terence Blanchard\, Donald Byrd\, Mulgrew Miller and Bootsie Barnes. \nHodge has played a role in countless groundbreaking projects and historic firsts. In 2022\, he directed the music for the Academy Awards and arranged for Nas’s performance at the Grammys. As part of CNN’S Juneteenth celebration\, he conducted the first all Black orchestra to perform at the Hollywood Bowl. In 2014 Hodge became the first Black composer to compose Hip Hop for the National Symphony when he acted as orchestral arranger and music director for the 20th anniversary celebration of Illmatic. Named one of the top moments in hip hop history by Fender Magazine\, it was the first time hip hop was ever performed by the National Symphony Orchestra. He was also the first Black composer to write strings for hip hop at Carnegie Hall and the first Black composer to write symphonic music for hip hop with the Houston Symphony. \nHodge has devoted himself to projects that elevate and animate the African American legacy: the struggle but also—and always—the poetry and the triumph too. It is this ability to honor and advance both culture and people that is the principle thread which weaves together Hodge’s work. He was commissioned to write music for permanent exhibitions at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. He has scored\, composed\, and consulted for a plethora of small and big screen works\, including The Black Candle\, a groundbreaking documentary about Kwanzaa narrated by Maya Angelou\, and Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans\, and the 2020 blockbuster The Photograph. While Hodge often lends his talents to the specific set of cinema and storytelling which chronicles Blackness in the U.S.\, he is also awake to the universal nuances of the human experience. His music tells stories that are simultaneously of a people\, and of the people. \nHodge has founded and played in bands and groups as diverse and as influential as R+R=Now\, the Robert Glasper Experiment\, and The Blue Note All Stars. As a producer he has collaborated with icons including Quincy Jones\, Don Was\, and Common. As a musical director he has worked with luminaries including Yasiin Bey and\, from 2009 to 2019\, Maxwell. \nThe Color of Noize project is Hodge’s signature concept-series\, bringing together contrasting sounds\, styles to create an immersive audio-visual experience. Color of Noize premiered in 2019 as part of Hodge’s artist residency at Monterey Jazz Festival\, where he brought together a collection of musicians\, some as young as four\, to explore his compositions in a remarkably moving and beautiful concert. As he puts it “it was never just my potential that made things happen; it was my community advocating for me—now I want to advocate for others\, to pass that on”. \nWhether collaborating with giants\, writing for the big screen\, forging new paths for orchestral composition\, or providing access to his symphonic scores and original arrangements to HBCUs and inner city music programs\, his work always contains social commentary\, awareness\, or insight. Here we find the fundamental character of Hodge; an incurably hopeful man\, who\, through his work and his art\, has made the world a definitively more beautiful place.
URL:https://www.discoverhollywood.com/event/derrick-hodge/2025-12-06/2/
LOCATION:Blue Note Jazz Club
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20251206T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20251206T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T001439
CREATED:20251119T175349Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251119T175349Z
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SUMMARY:Derrick Hodge
DESCRIPTION:Derrick Hodge is one of contemporary music’s most complete and complex artists. Also lauded as a composer\, he is revered as one of the great bassists and musicians of his generation and his solo projects—Live Today (2013)\, The Second (2016)\, and Color of Noize (2020)—have been met with praise from critics and audiences alike. His albums are rich\, raw and revelatory\, reflecting his roots in the church\, a passion for hip hop\, and an eternal reverence for melody and classical composition. Like the artist\, Hodge’s music contains multitudes. \nGrowing up just outside Philadelphia\, Hodge cut his teeth in the city’s neo-soul movement. At college\, he became the bass player and musical director of choice for pioneers like Jill Scott\, Maxwell\, Floetry\, Nas\, Common\, James Poyser and Musiq Soulchild. At the same time\, he played in his university’s orchestra and in jazz circles with legendary musicians including Terence Blanchard\, Donald Byrd\, Mulgrew Miller and Bootsie Barnes. \nHodge has played a role in countless groundbreaking projects and historic firsts. In 2022\, he directed the music for the Academy Awards and arranged for Nas’s performance at the Grammys. As part of CNN’S Juneteenth celebration\, he conducted the first all Black orchestra to perform at the Hollywood Bowl. In 2014 Hodge became the first Black composer to compose Hip Hop for the National Symphony when he acted as orchestral arranger and music director for the 20th anniversary celebration of Illmatic. Named one of the top moments in hip hop history by Fender Magazine\, it was the first time hip hop was ever performed by the National Symphony Orchestra. He was also the first Black composer to write strings for hip hop at Carnegie Hall and the first Black composer to write symphonic music for hip hop with the Houston Symphony. \nHodge has devoted himself to projects that elevate and animate the African American legacy: the struggle but also—and always—the poetry and the triumph too. It is this ability to honor and advance both culture and people that is the principle thread which weaves together Hodge’s work. He was commissioned to write music for permanent exhibitions at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. He has scored\, composed\, and consulted for a plethora of small and big screen works\, including The Black Candle\, a groundbreaking documentary about Kwanzaa narrated by Maya Angelou\, and Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans\, and the 2020 blockbuster The Photograph. While Hodge often lends his talents to the specific set of cinema and storytelling which chronicles Blackness in the U.S.\, he is also awake to the universal nuances of the human experience. His music tells stories that are simultaneously of a people\, and of the people. \nHodge has founded and played in bands and groups as diverse and as influential as R+R=Now\, the Robert Glasper Experiment\, and The Blue Note All Stars. As a producer he has collaborated with icons including Quincy Jones\, Don Was\, and Common. As a musical director he has worked with luminaries including Yasiin Bey and\, from 2009 to 2019\, Maxwell. \nThe Color of Noize project is Hodge’s signature concept-series\, bringing together contrasting sounds\, styles to create an immersive audio-visual experience. Color of Noize premiered in 2019 as part of Hodge’s artist residency at Monterey Jazz Festival\, where he brought together a collection of musicians\, some as young as four\, to explore his compositions in a remarkably moving and beautiful concert. As he puts it “it was never just my potential that made things happen; it was my community advocating for me—now I want to advocate for others\, to pass that on”. \nWhether collaborating with giants\, writing for the big screen\, forging new paths for orchestral composition\, or providing access to his symphonic scores and original arrangements to HBCUs and inner city music programs\, his work always contains social commentary\, awareness\, or insight. Here we find the fundamental character of Hodge; an incurably hopeful man\, who\, through his work and his art\, has made the world a definitively more beautiful place.
URL:https://www.discoverhollywood.com/event/derrick-hodge/2025-12-06/1/
LOCATION:Blue Note Jazz Club
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20251205T213000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20251205T233000
DTSTAMP:20260404T001439
CREATED:20251119T175349Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251119T175349Z
UID:10025568-1764970200-1764977400@www.discoverhollywood.com
SUMMARY:Derrick Hodge
DESCRIPTION:Derrick Hodge is one of contemporary music’s most complete and complex artists. Also lauded as a composer\, he is revered as one of the great bassists and musicians of his generation and his solo projects—Live Today (2013)\, The Second (2016)\, and Color of Noize (2020)—have been met with praise from critics and audiences alike. His albums are rich\, raw and revelatory\, reflecting his roots in the church\, a passion for hip hop\, and an eternal reverence for melody and classical composition. Like the artist\, Hodge’s music contains multitudes. \nGrowing up just outside Philadelphia\, Hodge cut his teeth in the city’s neo-soul movement. At college\, he became the bass player and musical director of choice for pioneers like Jill Scott\, Maxwell\, Floetry\, Nas\, Common\, James Poyser and Musiq Soulchild. At the same time\, he played in his university’s orchestra and in jazz circles with legendary musicians including Terence Blanchard\, Donald Byrd\, Mulgrew Miller and Bootsie Barnes. \nHodge has played a role in countless groundbreaking projects and historic firsts. In 2022\, he directed the music for the Academy Awards and arranged for Nas’s performance at the Grammys. As part of CNN’S Juneteenth celebration\, he conducted the first all Black orchestra to perform at the Hollywood Bowl. In 2014 Hodge became the first Black composer to compose Hip Hop for the National Symphony when he acted as orchestral arranger and music director for the 20th anniversary celebration of Illmatic. Named one of the top moments in hip hop history by Fender Magazine\, it was the first time hip hop was ever performed by the National Symphony Orchestra. He was also the first Black composer to write strings for hip hop at Carnegie Hall and the first Black composer to write symphonic music for hip hop with the Houston Symphony. \nHodge has devoted himself to projects that elevate and animate the African American legacy: the struggle but also—and always—the poetry and the triumph too. It is this ability to honor and advance both culture and people that is the principle thread which weaves together Hodge’s work. He was commissioned to write music for permanent exhibitions at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. He has scored\, composed\, and consulted for a plethora of small and big screen works\, including The Black Candle\, a groundbreaking documentary about Kwanzaa narrated by Maya Angelou\, and Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans\, and the 2020 blockbuster The Photograph. While Hodge often lends his talents to the specific set of cinema and storytelling which chronicles Blackness in the U.S.\, he is also awake to the universal nuances of the human experience. His music tells stories that are simultaneously of a people\, and of the people. \nHodge has founded and played in bands and groups as diverse and as influential as R+R=Now\, the Robert Glasper Experiment\, and The Blue Note All Stars. As a producer he has collaborated with icons including Quincy Jones\, Don Was\, and Common. As a musical director he has worked with luminaries including Yasiin Bey and\, from 2009 to 2019\, Maxwell. \nThe Color of Noize project is Hodge’s signature concept-series\, bringing together contrasting sounds\, styles to create an immersive audio-visual experience. Color of Noize premiered in 2019 as part of Hodge’s artist residency at Monterey Jazz Festival\, where he brought together a collection of musicians\, some as young as four\, to explore his compositions in a remarkably moving and beautiful concert. As he puts it “it was never just my potential that made things happen; it was my community advocating for me—now I want to advocate for others\, to pass that on”. \nWhether collaborating with giants\, writing for the big screen\, forging new paths for orchestral composition\, or providing access to his symphonic scores and original arrangements to HBCUs and inner city music programs\, his work always contains social commentary\, awareness\, or insight. Here we find the fundamental character of Hodge; an incurably hopeful man\, who\, through his work and his art\, has made the world a definitively more beautiful place.
URL:https://www.discoverhollywood.com/event/derrick-hodge/2025-12-05/2/
LOCATION:Blue Note Jazz Club
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20251205T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20251205T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T001439
CREATED:20251119T175349Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251119T175349Z
UID:10025567-1764961200-1764968400@www.discoverhollywood.com
SUMMARY:Derrick Hodge
DESCRIPTION:Derrick Hodge is one of contemporary music’s most complete and complex artists. Also lauded as a composer\, he is revered as one of the great bassists and musicians of his generation and his solo projects—Live Today (2013)\, The Second (2016)\, and Color of Noize (2020)—have been met with praise from critics and audiences alike. His albums are rich\, raw and revelatory\, reflecting his roots in the church\, a passion for hip hop\, and an eternal reverence for melody and classical composition. Like the artist\, Hodge’s music contains multitudes. \nGrowing up just outside Philadelphia\, Hodge cut his teeth in the city’s neo-soul movement. At college\, he became the bass player and musical director of choice for pioneers like Jill Scott\, Maxwell\, Floetry\, Nas\, Common\, James Poyser and Musiq Soulchild. At the same time\, he played in his university’s orchestra and in jazz circles with legendary musicians including Terence Blanchard\, Donald Byrd\, Mulgrew Miller and Bootsie Barnes. \nHodge has played a role in countless groundbreaking projects and historic firsts. In 2022\, he directed the music for the Academy Awards and arranged for Nas’s performance at the Grammys. As part of CNN’S Juneteenth celebration\, he conducted the first all Black orchestra to perform at the Hollywood Bowl. In 2014 Hodge became the first Black composer to compose Hip Hop for the National Symphony when he acted as orchestral arranger and music director for the 20th anniversary celebration of Illmatic. Named one of the top moments in hip hop history by Fender Magazine\, it was the first time hip hop was ever performed by the National Symphony Orchestra. He was also the first Black composer to write strings for hip hop at Carnegie Hall and the first Black composer to write symphonic music for hip hop with the Houston Symphony. \nHodge has devoted himself to projects that elevate and animate the African American legacy: the struggle but also—and always—the poetry and the triumph too. It is this ability to honor and advance both culture and people that is the principle thread which weaves together Hodge’s work. He was commissioned to write music for permanent exhibitions at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. He has scored\, composed\, and consulted for a plethora of small and big screen works\, including The Black Candle\, a groundbreaking documentary about Kwanzaa narrated by Maya Angelou\, and Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans\, and the 2020 blockbuster The Photograph. While Hodge often lends his talents to the specific set of cinema and storytelling which chronicles Blackness in the U.S.\, he is also awake to the universal nuances of the human experience. His music tells stories that are simultaneously of a people\, and of the people. \nHodge has founded and played in bands and groups as diverse and as influential as R+R=Now\, the Robert Glasper Experiment\, and The Blue Note All Stars. As a producer he has collaborated with icons including Quincy Jones\, Don Was\, and Common. As a musical director he has worked with luminaries including Yasiin Bey and\, from 2009 to 2019\, Maxwell. \nThe Color of Noize project is Hodge’s signature concept-series\, bringing together contrasting sounds\, styles to create an immersive audio-visual experience. Color of Noize premiered in 2019 as part of Hodge’s artist residency at Monterey Jazz Festival\, where he brought together a collection of musicians\, some as young as four\, to explore his compositions in a remarkably moving and beautiful concert. As he puts it “it was never just my potential that made things happen; it was my community advocating for me—now I want to advocate for others\, to pass that on”. \nWhether collaborating with giants\, writing for the big screen\, forging new paths for orchestral composition\, or providing access to his symphonic scores and original arrangements to HBCUs and inner city music programs\, his work always contains social commentary\, awareness\, or insight. Here we find the fundamental character of Hodge; an incurably hopeful man\, who\, through his work and his art\, has made the world a definitively more beautiful place.
URL:https://www.discoverhollywood.com/event/derrick-hodge/2025-12-05/1/
LOCATION:Blue Note Jazz Club
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20251203T213000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20251203T233000
DTSTAMP:20260404T001439
CREATED:20251119T163039Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251119T163039Z
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SUMMARY:Saba
DESCRIPTION:A successful independent artist\, Saba has rooted his career in an authenticity and musicality that’s made him one of his generation’s most important and unique voices in rap. Saba’s most recent career highlights include performing at the United Center arena for Chance the Rapper’s Acid Rap Anniversary\, playing two weekends at Coachella\, and touring the US\, Europe and Africa in support of his album Few Good Things. This year\, Spotify has included Saba’s critically acclaimed CARE FOR ME album amongst it’s “Spotify Classics: Hip-Hop & R&B Albums of the Streaming Era” campaign (which includes Beyoncé\, Kendrick Lamar\, Tyler the Creator and more) with billboards across LA and NYC. \nSaba began making music at age 9 and was writing and producing songs by early adolescence. Building a recording studio in his grandmother’s basement on the west side of Chicago\, he and a group of neighborhood friends formed their Pivot Gang collective. In 2019\, J. Cole tapped Saba for the Dreamville collaboration album Revenge of the Dreamers III\, in which Saba earned his first RIAA Gold certification for the song “Sacrifices.” That same year\, Saba\, Noname and Smino announced the creation of their Midwest super-group Ghetto Sage with the release of their debut track “Häagen Dazs.” 2022 marked Saba’s second RIAA Gold certification – this time for his own 2016 single “Photosynthesis.” \nIn 2025\, Saba and super-producer\, executive\, and mentor No ID will drop their highly anticipated collaboration album. On the album\, Saba flexes his vivid story-telling\, radiating confidence\, self-reflection and self-made success over No ID’s illustrious production.
URL:https://www.discoverhollywood.com/event/saba-2/2025-12-03/2/
LOCATION:Blue Note Jazz Club
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20251203T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20251203T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T001439
CREATED:20251119T163039Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251119T163039Z
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SUMMARY:Saba
DESCRIPTION:A successful independent artist\, Saba has rooted his career in an authenticity and musicality that’s made him one of his generation’s most important and unique voices in rap. Saba’s most recent career highlights include performing at the United Center arena for Chance the Rapper’s Acid Rap Anniversary\, playing two weekends at Coachella\, and touring the US\, Europe and Africa in support of his album Few Good Things. This year\, Spotify has included Saba’s critically acclaimed CARE FOR ME album amongst it’s “Spotify Classics: Hip-Hop & R&B Albums of the Streaming Era” campaign (which includes Beyoncé\, Kendrick Lamar\, Tyler the Creator and more) with billboards across LA and NYC. \nSaba began making music at age 9 and was writing and producing songs by early adolescence. Building a recording studio in his grandmother’s basement on the west side of Chicago\, he and a group of neighborhood friends formed their Pivot Gang collective. In 2019\, J. Cole tapped Saba for the Dreamville collaboration album Revenge of the Dreamers III\, in which Saba earned his first RIAA Gold certification for the song “Sacrifices.” That same year\, Saba\, Noname and Smino announced the creation of their Midwest super-group Ghetto Sage with the release of their debut track “Häagen Dazs.” 2022 marked Saba’s second RIAA Gold certification – this time for his own 2016 single “Photosynthesis.” \nIn 2025\, Saba and super-producer\, executive\, and mentor No ID will drop their highly anticipated collaboration album. On the album\, Saba flexes his vivid story-telling\, radiating confidence\, self-reflection and self-made success over No ID’s illustrious production.
URL:https://www.discoverhollywood.com/event/saba-2/2025-12-03/1/
LOCATION:Blue Note Jazz Club
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20251203T170000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20251203T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T001439
CREATED:20251028T165949Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251028T165949Z
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SUMMARY:Keyon Harrold
DESCRIPTION:Keyon Harrold is a Grammy Award-winning trumpeter\, composer\, and producer celebrated for his masterful ability to blend jazz with elements of hip-hop\, neo-soul\, rock\, and blues\, creating a sound uniquely reflective of the modern American experience. Hailing from Ferguson\, Missouri\, his music often carries themes of social justice and personal resilience\, which are vividly explored in his critically acclaimed albums like The Mugician (a portmanteau of ‘musician’ and ‘magician’) and his recent release\, Foreverland. Harrold’s distinctively warm and commanding trumpet sound has made him one of the most in-demand session musicians in the industry; he is known for providing the “trumpet voice” for Miles Davis in the biopic Miles Ahead and has collaborated with a vast array of legends including Beyoncé\, Jay-Z\, D’Angelo\, Common\, and his frequent bandmate and New School classmate\, Robert Glasper. His career showcases a rare versatility\, moving seamlessly from the improvisational rigor of jazz clubs to the pop sensibility of mainstream music.
URL:https://www.discoverhollywood.com/event/keyon-harrold/2025-12-03/
LOCATION:Blue Note Jazz Club
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20251202T213000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20251202T230000
DTSTAMP:20260404T001439
CREATED:20251119T163039Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251119T163039Z
UID:10025562-1764711000-1764716400@www.discoverhollywood.com
SUMMARY:Saba
DESCRIPTION:A successful independent artist\, Saba has rooted his career in an authenticity and musicality that’s made him one of his generation’s most important and unique voices in rap. Saba’s most recent career highlights include performing at the United Center arena for Chance the Rapper’s Acid Rap Anniversary\, playing two weekends at Coachella\, and touring the US\, Europe and Africa in support of his album Few Good Things. This year\, Spotify has included Saba’s critically acclaimed CARE FOR ME album amongst it’s “Spotify Classics: Hip-Hop & R&B Albums of the Streaming Era” campaign (which includes Beyoncé\, Kendrick Lamar\, Tyler the Creator and more) with billboards across LA and NYC. \nSaba began making music at age 9 and was writing and producing songs by early adolescence. Building a recording studio in his grandmother’s basement on the west side of Chicago\, he and a group of neighborhood friends formed their Pivot Gang collective. In 2019\, J. Cole tapped Saba for the Dreamville collaboration album Revenge of the Dreamers III\, in which Saba earned his first RIAA Gold certification for the song “Sacrifices.” That same year\, Saba\, Noname and Smino announced the creation of their Midwest super-group Ghetto Sage with the release of their debut track “Häagen Dazs.” 2022 marked Saba’s second RIAA Gold certification – this time for his own 2016 single “Photosynthesis.” \nIn 2025\, Saba and super-producer\, executive\, and mentor No ID will drop their highly anticipated collaboration album. On the album\, Saba flexes his vivid story-telling\, radiating confidence\, self-reflection and self-made success over No ID’s illustrious production.
URL:https://www.discoverhollywood.com/event/saba-2/2025-12-02/2/
LOCATION:Blue Note Jazz Club
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20251202T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20251202T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T001439
CREATED:20251119T163039Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251119T163039Z
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SUMMARY:Saba
DESCRIPTION:A successful independent artist\, Saba has rooted his career in an authenticity and musicality that’s made him one of his generation’s most important and unique voices in rap. Saba’s most recent career highlights include performing at the United Center arena for Chance the Rapper’s Acid Rap Anniversary\, playing two weekends at Coachella\, and touring the US\, Europe and Africa in support of his album Few Good Things. This year\, Spotify has included Saba’s critically acclaimed CARE FOR ME album amongst it’s “Spotify Classics: Hip-Hop & R&B Albums of the Streaming Era” campaign (which includes Beyoncé\, Kendrick Lamar\, Tyler the Creator and more) with billboards across LA and NYC. \nSaba began making music at age 9 and was writing and producing songs by early adolescence. Building a recording studio in his grandmother’s basement on the west side of Chicago\, he and a group of neighborhood friends formed their Pivot Gang collective. In 2019\, J. Cole tapped Saba for the Dreamville collaboration album Revenge of the Dreamers III\, in which Saba earned his first RIAA Gold certification for the song “Sacrifices.” That same year\, Saba\, Noname and Smino announced the creation of their Midwest super-group Ghetto Sage with the release of their debut track “Häagen Dazs.” 2022 marked Saba’s second RIAA Gold certification – this time for his own 2016 single “Photosynthesis.” \nIn 2025\, Saba and super-producer\, executive\, and mentor No ID will drop their highly anticipated collaboration album. On the album\, Saba flexes his vivid story-telling\, radiating confidence\, self-reflection and self-made success over No ID’s illustrious production.
URL:https://www.discoverhollywood.com/event/saba-2/2025-12-02/1/
LOCATION:Blue Note Jazz Club
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20251202T170000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20251202T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T001439
CREATED:20251028T165949Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251028T165949Z
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SUMMARY:Keyon Harrold
DESCRIPTION:Keyon Harrold is a Grammy Award-winning trumpeter\, composer\, and producer celebrated for his masterful ability to blend jazz with elements of hip-hop\, neo-soul\, rock\, and blues\, creating a sound uniquely reflective of the modern American experience. Hailing from Ferguson\, Missouri\, his music often carries themes of social justice and personal resilience\, which are vividly explored in his critically acclaimed albums like The Mugician (a portmanteau of ‘musician’ and ‘magician’) and his recent release\, Foreverland. Harrold’s distinctively warm and commanding trumpet sound has made him one of the most in-demand session musicians in the industry; he is known for providing the “trumpet voice” for Miles Davis in the biopic Miles Ahead and has collaborated with a vast array of legends including Beyoncé\, Jay-Z\, D’Angelo\, Common\, and his frequent bandmate and New School classmate\, Robert Glasper. His career showcases a rare versatility\, moving seamlessly from the improvisational rigor of jazz clubs to the pop sensibility of mainstream music.
URL:https://www.discoverhollywood.com/event/keyon-harrold/2025-12-02/
LOCATION:Blue Note Jazz Club
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20251130T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20251130T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T001439
CREATED:20251119T162438Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251119T162438Z
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SUMMARY:Andra Day
DESCRIPTION:Andra Day is a powerful singer and artful songwriter who isn’t merely a throwback R&B specialist; her roots in gospel\, jazz\, and the blues\, displayed with ease and finesse\, translate to the present. Cheers to the Fall (2015)\, her auspicious debut\, cracked the Top Ten of the R&B/hip-hop charts and paved the way for a handful of Grammy nominations and an Academy Award nomination\, with “Stand Up for Something” (2017)\, her contribution to the soundtrack of Marshall\, earning both distinctions. Anticipation for her second proper album continued to build with intermediary singles that surrounded a Golden Globe-winning portrayal of  in The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021). CASSANDRA (cherith) (2024)\, Day’s second album of original material\, moved smoothly across traditional and progressive R&B\, orchestral pop\, and bossa nova.
URL:https://www.discoverhollywood.com/event/andra-day/2025-11-30/
LOCATION:Blue Note Jazz Club
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20251129T213000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20251129T230000
DTSTAMP:20260404T001439
CREATED:20251119T162438Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251119T162438Z
UID:10025559-1764451800-1764457200@www.discoverhollywood.com
SUMMARY:Andra Day
DESCRIPTION:Andra Day is a powerful singer and artful songwriter who isn’t merely a throwback R&B specialist; her roots in gospel\, jazz\, and the blues\, displayed with ease and finesse\, translate to the present. Cheers to the Fall (2015)\, her auspicious debut\, cracked the Top Ten of the R&B/hip-hop charts and paved the way for a handful of Grammy nominations and an Academy Award nomination\, with “Stand Up for Something” (2017)\, her contribution to the soundtrack of Marshall\, earning both distinctions. Anticipation for her second proper album continued to build with intermediary singles that surrounded a Golden Globe-winning portrayal of  in The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021). CASSANDRA (cherith) (2024)\, Day’s second album of original material\, moved smoothly across traditional and progressive R&B\, orchestral pop\, and bossa nova.
URL:https://www.discoverhollywood.com/event/andra-day/2025-11-29/2/
LOCATION:Blue Note Jazz Club
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20251129T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20251129T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T001439
CREATED:20251119T162438Z
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SUMMARY:Andra Day
DESCRIPTION:Andra Day is a powerful singer and artful songwriter who isn’t merely a throwback R&B specialist; her roots in gospel\, jazz\, and the blues\, displayed with ease and finesse\, translate to the present. Cheers to the Fall (2015)\, her auspicious debut\, cracked the Top Ten of the R&B/hip-hop charts and paved the way for a handful of Grammy nominations and an Academy Award nomination\, with “Stand Up for Something” (2017)\, her contribution to the soundtrack of Marshall\, earning both distinctions. Anticipation for her second proper album continued to build with intermediary singles that surrounded a Golden Globe-winning portrayal of  in The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021). CASSANDRA (cherith) (2024)\, Day’s second album of original material\, moved smoothly across traditional and progressive R&B\, orchestral pop\, and bossa nova.
URL:https://www.discoverhollywood.com/event/andra-day/2025-11-29/1/
LOCATION:Blue Note Jazz Club
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20251128T213000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20251128T230000
DTSTAMP:20260404T001439
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SUMMARY:Andra Day
DESCRIPTION:Andra Day is a powerful singer and artful songwriter who isn’t merely a throwback R&B specialist; her roots in gospel\, jazz\, and the blues\, displayed with ease and finesse\, translate to the present. Cheers to the Fall (2015)\, her auspicious debut\, cracked the Top Ten of the R&B/hip-hop charts and paved the way for a handful of Grammy nominations and an Academy Award nomination\, with “Stand Up for Something” (2017)\, her contribution to the soundtrack of Marshall\, earning both distinctions. Anticipation for her second proper album continued to build with intermediary singles that surrounded a Golden Globe-winning portrayal of  in The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021). CASSANDRA (cherith) (2024)\, Day’s second album of original material\, moved smoothly across traditional and progressive R&B\, orchestral pop\, and bossa nova.
URL:https://www.discoverhollywood.com/event/andra-day/2025-11-28/2/
LOCATION:Blue Note Jazz Club
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20251128T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20251128T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T001439
CREATED:20251119T162438Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251119T162438Z
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SUMMARY:Andra Day
DESCRIPTION:Andra Day is a powerful singer and artful songwriter who isn’t merely a throwback R&B specialist; her roots in gospel\, jazz\, and the blues\, displayed with ease and finesse\, translate to the present. Cheers to the Fall (2015)\, her auspicious debut\, cracked the Top Ten of the R&B/hip-hop charts and paved the way for a handful of Grammy nominations and an Academy Award nomination\, with “Stand Up for Something” (2017)\, her contribution to the soundtrack of Marshall\, earning both distinctions. Anticipation for her second proper album continued to build with intermediary singles that surrounded a Golden Globe-winning portrayal of  in The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021). CASSANDRA (cherith) (2024)\, Day’s second album of original material\, moved smoothly across traditional and progressive R&B\, orchestral pop\, and bossa nova.
URL:https://www.discoverhollywood.com/event/andra-day/2025-11-28/1/
LOCATION:Blue Note Jazz Club
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20251126T213000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20251126T233000
DTSTAMP:20260404T001439
CREATED:20251119T161959Z
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SUMMARY:Bas & The Hics
DESCRIPTION:Proposed Bas & The Hics bio: Bas (Abbas Hamad) is a Paris-born\, Queens-raised rapper of Sudanese descent signed to J. Cole’s Dreamville Records. Since his debut\, he has become known for blending introspective lyricism with melodic rap\, weaving influences from jazz\, soul\, and electronic music into projects like Too High to Riot and Milky Way. His artistry often balances storytelling with a global perspective\, reflecting both his personal journey and his cross-cultural roots. Bas has long sought out collaborators who expand his sound\, a pursuit that led him to connect with the London-based group The Hics after discovering their music in Grand Theft Auto V.\nThe Hics\, formed in 2012 by Sam Paul Evans and Roxane Barker\, built their reputation through a hybrid of electronic textures\, neo-soul\, and jazz-inflected songwriting. Early recognition came with their single “Cold Air\,” which landed on GTA V’s in-game radio and sparked international attention. Their nuanced blend of vocals\, instrumentation\, and digital production positioned them as a unique voice in the UK’s alternative music scene. Joining Bas on tour in 2016 cemented a creative bond that grew steadily through shared performances and collaborations on tracks such as “Ricochet” and “Matches.” \nIn 2025\, Bas and The Hics formalized their partnership with Melanchronica\, a joint album released on June 17. The project merges their sensibilities into a soundscape that moves fluidly between hip-hop\, R&B\, and electronica\, while exploring themes of longing\, isolation\, and human connection. The title\, derived from the phrase “chronic melancholy\,” encapsulates the album’s reflective mood. Featuring contributions from artists like Ab-Soul\, Saba\, and Domani\, Melanchronica marks both an evolution in Bas’s catalog and a breakthrough moment for The Hics. The accompanying tour presents this collaboration in full form\, offering audiences an immersive performance that showcases the strength of their long-developing creative chemistry.
URL:https://www.discoverhollywood.com/event/bas-the-hics/2025-11-26/2/
LOCATION:Blue Note Jazz Club
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20251126T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20251126T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T001439
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SUMMARY:Bas & The Hics
DESCRIPTION:Proposed Bas & The Hics bio: Bas (Abbas Hamad) is a Paris-born\, Queens-raised rapper of Sudanese descent signed to J. Cole’s Dreamville Records. Since his debut\, he has become known for blending introspective lyricism with melodic rap\, weaving influences from jazz\, soul\, and electronic music into projects like Too High to Riot and Milky Way. His artistry often balances storytelling with a global perspective\, reflecting both his personal journey and his cross-cultural roots. Bas has long sought out collaborators who expand his sound\, a pursuit that led him to connect with the London-based group The Hics after discovering their music in Grand Theft Auto V.\nThe Hics\, formed in 2012 by Sam Paul Evans and Roxane Barker\, built their reputation through a hybrid of electronic textures\, neo-soul\, and jazz-inflected songwriting. Early recognition came with their single “Cold Air\,” which landed on GTA V’s in-game radio and sparked international attention. Their nuanced blend of vocals\, instrumentation\, and digital production positioned them as a unique voice in the UK’s alternative music scene. Joining Bas on tour in 2016 cemented a creative bond that grew steadily through shared performances and collaborations on tracks such as “Ricochet” and “Matches.” \nIn 2025\, Bas and The Hics formalized their partnership with Melanchronica\, a joint album released on June 17. The project merges their sensibilities into a soundscape that moves fluidly between hip-hop\, R&B\, and electronica\, while exploring themes of longing\, isolation\, and human connection. The title\, derived from the phrase “chronic melancholy\,” encapsulates the album’s reflective mood. Featuring contributions from artists like Ab-Soul\, Saba\, and Domani\, Melanchronica marks both an evolution in Bas’s catalog and a breakthrough moment for The Hics. The accompanying tour presents this collaboration in full form\, offering audiences an immersive performance that showcases the strength of their long-developing creative chemistry.
URL:https://www.discoverhollywood.com/event/bas-the-hics/2025-11-26/1/
LOCATION:Blue Note Jazz Club
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20251126T170000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20251126T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T001439
CREATED:20251028T165949Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251028T165949Z
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SUMMARY:Keyon Harrold
DESCRIPTION:Keyon Harrold is a Grammy Award-winning trumpeter\, composer\, and producer celebrated for his masterful ability to blend jazz with elements of hip-hop\, neo-soul\, rock\, and blues\, creating a sound uniquely reflective of the modern American experience. Hailing from Ferguson\, Missouri\, his music often carries themes of social justice and personal resilience\, which are vividly explored in his critically acclaimed albums like The Mugician (a portmanteau of ‘musician’ and ‘magician’) and his recent release\, Foreverland. Harrold’s distinctively warm and commanding trumpet sound has made him one of the most in-demand session musicians in the industry; he is known for providing the “trumpet voice” for Miles Davis in the biopic Miles Ahead and has collaborated with a vast array of legends including Beyoncé\, Jay-Z\, D’Angelo\, Common\, and his frequent bandmate and New School classmate\, Robert Glasper. His career showcases a rare versatility\, moving seamlessly from the improvisational rigor of jazz clubs to the pop sensibility of mainstream music.
URL:https://www.discoverhollywood.com/event/keyon-harrold/2025-11-26/
LOCATION:Blue Note Jazz Club
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20251125T213000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20251125T233000
DTSTAMP:20260404T001439
CREATED:20251119T161420Z
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SUMMARY:James Francies X Joel Ross X Blaque Dynamite
DESCRIPTION:Plenty of young musicians show promise\, but very few enjoy the sort of meteoric rise that pianist\, keyboardist and composer James Francies is currently experiencing. At only 24\, he’s played with jazz headliners like Pat Metheny\, Chris Potter\, Jeff “Tain” Watts\, Stefon Harris\, Eric Harland\, and Terrace Martin\, and racked up equally impressive credits in hip-hop and R&B: from shows with Ms. Lauryn Hill\, José James\, Common\, and NAS\, to studio time for Chance the Rapper’s Grammy-winning hit “No Problem”\, Mark Ronson \, Childish Gambino\, YEBBA\, Drake\, and Kodak Black\, to appearances with The Roots on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon alongside his mentor and friend Questlove. \nNow comes Flight\, the extraordinary debut album that welcomes Francies into the storied Blue Note Records family and finds him melding his jazz mastery and pop experience on 11 searching\, engaging tracks. But as bold and new as this moment might seem for Francies\, it’s also a homecoming\, in more ways than one. Francies\, like his Blue Note predecessors Robert Glasper\, Jason Moran\, Chris Dave and Kendrick Scott\, is a proud Houstonite and a graduate of that city’s High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (HSPVA)\, one of the nation’s most reliable incubators for era-defining jazz talent. “Just to follow in their footsteps\, let alone in the footsteps of Herbie Hancock\, Bud Powell and all of these other artists who recorded for the label\, it’s an honor\,” Francies says. “And there’s a responsibility that comes with it too.” \nCalled “a pianist with liquid dynamism in his touch” by the New York Times\, Francies started on piano around age 4\, with classical training and an education in the music of the church. Blessed with perfect pitch and synesthesia (or the ability to hear in colors)\, he attended his first jazz concert\, by Houston-born piano legend Joe Sample\, at age 6\, and began studying jazz in junior high. Many deep influences followed\, some of them surprising. Along with pianists like Gonzalo Rubalcaba\, Mulgrew Miller\, Oscar Peterson\, Art Tatum and Taylor Eigsti\, a longtime friend\, Francies points to guitarists Allan Holdsworth and Mike Moreno and such trumpet masters as Nicholas Payton\, Freddie Hubbard\, Clifford Brown and Lee Morgan. A highly decorated tenure at HSPVA—including spots in the Monterey Jazz Festival’s Next Generation Jazz Orchestra\, the Thelonious Monk Institute All-Star Jazz Sextet and the GRAMMY Jazz Session Combo—earned Francies a full scholarship to Manhattan’s New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. \nWhile he was earning his degree\, Francies was also rapidly ascending the jazz ranks and building a professional career. Early bandstand time with Jeff “Tain” Watts helped him cut his teeth and raise his profile\, as did his first international tour\, with Chris Dave and the Drumhedz. Chris Potter tapped him for his trio along with drummer Eric Harland\, and Pat Metheny assembled a trio with Francies and drummer Nate Smith. Francies’ own group\, Kinetic\, has garnered buzz at events like Newport Jazz Festival\, Monterey Jazz Festival\, NYC Winterfest\, and BRIC JazzFest. He met Questlove and Roots keyboardist James Poyser a few years ago\, and since then has become a go-to resource for Quest and company—subbing for Poyser on Roots concerts and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon; participating in the Roots-produced Hamilton cast recording\, in addition to other film and TV score work organized by Quest; and\, currently\, collaborating with The Roots emcee Black Thought on a Broadway show. \nFrancies says that his experiences outside of jazz have helped him with concepts like “assembling sounds\, consistency\, delivery and the ability to support\,” and it certainly isn’t difficult to hear these lessons throughout Flight. An embodiment of the Blue Note ethos at this thriving moment in the label’s history\, it’s a dynamic\, ultramodern jazz record\, infused with pop\, hip-hop and R&B\, that remains entertaining from start to finish. \nJames Francies is a Blue Note Recording Artist\, endorsed by Yamaha Pianos\, Korg Keyboards\, and is an IWC Brand Ambassador.
URL:https://www.discoverhollywood.com/event/james-francies-x-joel-ross-x-blaque-dynamite/2025-11-25/2/
LOCATION:Blue Note Jazz Club
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