Vernacular: New Music teams up with Angel City Jazz Festival for the third year in a row to present, fittingly, an evening of three trios.

We invited three disparate but equally compelling artists, percussion maestro Alex Cline, visual and sonic explorer Carole Kim, and punk abstractionist Joe Baiza, to each select two additional collaborators for the evening.

The three trios that resulted from the process represent unique approaches to improvisation and collaboration; three very different responses to the challenge of creating in the moment based on the excitement of working with new personalities or the discovery of new possibilities by fathoming the depths of established personal relationships.

Working with light and images, movement, language and poetry, and sound, the artists presenting tonight create spontaneously in real time, producing what could never be planned, and revealing what could never be predicted.

Doors at 6:30pm

Trio 1
Carole Kim – live video, sound objects, electronics
Kozue Matsumoto – koto
Aine Nakamura – movement, voice

Trio 2
Alex Cline – percussion
Dwight Trible – voice
Joshua White – keyboard

Trio 3
Joe Baiza – guitar
Mike Watt – bass
Matt Crane – drums