Oakland Public Conservatory of Music & Jazz in the Neighborhood present Live at OPC! feat. a host of musicians from the Bay Area & Beyond.

Join us Friday April 22, 2022 at 7 pm (PDT) for a special concert.

Oakland Public Conservatory of Music presents composer/pianist Jon Jang and his ensemble in collaboration with spoken word artist Paul S. Flores for a performance of CAGES: A Way to Interrogate History* at the OPC on Friday April 22, at 7pm. This new work uniquely interrogates the histories of Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) through music and spoken word.

The Jon Jangtet features

Hitomi Oba, tenor saxophone, Nick DePinna, trombone, Jon Jang, piano; Gary Brown, double bass, Deszon Claiborne, multiple percussion.

In-person tix-$20 at the Oakland Public Conservatory of Music

3445 San Pablo Ave, Oakland, CA, 94608 | Masks, proof of vaccination & Valid Photo ID required.

Livestream $10 on Bandcamp. Click here to purchase.

ABOUT JON JANG

Composer Jon Jang became the first American born Chinese to compose a symphonic work that honors Chinese American history. Commissioned by the Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra and Oakland East Bay Symphony, Jon Jang composed The Chinese American Symphony which pays tribute to the Chinese immigrant laborers who built the first transcontinental railroad in United States.

For nearly four decades, composer and pianist Jon Jang give a musical voice to a history that has been silent. A majority of his works represents a chronology of Chinese American history in San Francisco such as Island: The Immigrant Suite No. 2 for the Kronos Quartet.

Pianist/composer Jon Jang has collaborated and recorded with Max Roach, James Newton and David Murray. Jang’s ensembles have toured at major concert halls and music festivals in Europe, China, Canada, United States and South Africa, four months after the election to end apartheid in April 1994. Jang’s latest recording, The Pledge of Black Asian Allegiance, pays tribute to Malcolm X, Yuri Kochiyama and to Black Lives Matter. In 1987 in San Francisco, Jon Jang and saxophonist Francis Wong co-founded Asian Improv aRts where their mission statement is to support new directions in music by Asian Americans.

Jon Jang website

ABOUT LIVE! at OPC

Live! at OPC is a new Livestream concert series at the Oakland Public Conservatory of Music produced in collaboration with Jazz in the Neighborhood. The concerts will feature a host of musicians from the Bay Area and beyond. One hundred percent of the ticket revenue benefits the OPC's youth programs that provide free music education for Black and Brown youth of Oakland.

Angela M. Wellman, Founding Director

Jazz in the Neighborhood is proud to help support the vital mission of the Oakland Public Conservatory. We are excited about working together on more projects moving forward.

Mario Guarneri, Founder and Artistic Director