Nicole Mitchell's Sun Dial Ensemble at Angel City Jazz Festival at Los Angeles County Museum Of Art

FREE CONCERT!
For more information, please visit: http://angelcityjazz.com/schedule

ZACH RAMACIER GROUP
2013 YOUNG ARTIST COMPETITION WINNERS (6:00pm)

The Angel City Arts Young Artist Competition is an avenue for young jazz musicians in the Los Angeles area to create and collaborate with one another in an effort to expand upon the traditional concepts of jazz and improvisation. Four finalists will be announced on September 7th, 2013.


NICOLE MITCHELL'S SUN DIAL ENSEMBLE (7:00pm)
Nicole Mitchell (flutes+composition)
Michael Dessen (trombone)...

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FREE CONCERT!
For more information, please visit: http://angelcityjazz.com/schedule

ZACH RAMACIER GROUP
2013 YOUNG ARTIST COMPETITION WINNERS (6:00pm)

The Angel City Arts Young Artist Competition is an avenue for young jazz musicians in the Los Angeles area to create and collaborate with one another in an effort to expand upon the traditional concepts of jazz and improvisation. Four finalists will be announced on September 7th, 2013.


NICOLE MITCHELL'S SUN DIAL ENSEMBLE (7:00pm)
Nicole Mitchell (flutes+composition)
Michael Dessen (trombone)
Dwight Trible (vocals)
Jeff Parker (guitar)
Mark Dresser (bass)
Najite Agindotan (percussion)

After decades of working actively in the Chicago scene, Nicole Mitchell is excited to present her first LA-based project: the Sun Dial Ensemble. Sun Dial unites luminary musicians from diverse musical communities, connecting forces of bassist Mark Dresser, trombonist Michael Dessen, Nigerian percussionist and cultural visionary Najite Agindotan, Pan Arkestra vocalist Dwight Trible, and Chicago AACM members Nicole Mitchell (flute) and Jeff Parker (guitar). Nicole Mitchell is a creative flutist, composer, bandleader and educator. With contemporary ensembles of varying instrumentation and size (from solo to orchestra). As the founder of Black Earth Ensemble, Black Earth Strings, Ice Crystal and Sonic Projections, Mitchell has been repeatedly awarded by DownBeat Critics Poll and the Jazz Journalists Association as "Top Flutist of the Year" for the last four years (2010-2013).

Mitchell's music celebrates African American culture while reaching across genres and integrating new ideas with moments in the legacy of jazz, gospel, experimentalism, pop and African percussion. Her latest CD "Aquarius" (Delmark 2013) and her solo recording "Engraved in the Wind" (Rogue Art 2013) have received critical acclaim from the New York Times. Among the first class of Doris Duke Artists, Mitchell works to raise respect and integrity for the improvised flute and to contriube her innovative voice to the jazz legacy. Nicole Mitchell is currently a professor of music, teaching in "Integrated Composition, Improvisation and Technology," a new and expansively minded graduate program at the University of California, Irvine. She is endorsed by Powell Flutes.

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