7:00 PM (Doors 5:00 PM)
9:30 PM (Doors 9:00 PM)

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Laura Karpman
Five-time Emmy Award–winning and Oscar-nominated composer Laura Karpman brings her acclaimed score for American Fiction to life for the first time ever — live on stage at Blue Note LA. Known for her bold, boundary-pushing work across film, television, and the concert hall, Karpman’s music radiates imagination and intensity. This special event will showcase her award-winning score in an electrifying performance featuring acclaimed flutist Elena Pinderhughes and the inimitable Erika Alexander. Cinematic storytelling and a one-night-only celebration of sound, spirit, and artistry — Karpman’s American Fiction in concert.

Elena Pinderhughes
Elena Pinderhughes is an award-winning flutist, vocalist, composer, and songwriter whose music flows effortlessly between jazz, R&B, and hip-hop influences. Hailed by The Guardian as “the most exciting and creatively assured jazz flutist to have emerged in years,” she has become one of the leading voices of a new generation redefining the sound of alternative jazz.

Raised in the Bay Area and trained at the Manhattan School of Music, Elena developed a luminous style on both flute and voice that invites listeners into a world where virtuosity meets storytelling, and honesty shapes every note. She is redefining the expressive range of the flute in contemporary music, weaving it through jazz, R&B, hip-hop, and orchestral soundscapes to create a language that is entirely her own.