Headlining our first full building activation of the season with Oakland’s SMARTBOMB curatorial arts collective will be Melanie Charles with Ignabu x Paul Wilson Bae, and Mark de Clive-Lowe in Miner Auditorium, with DJ sets by E Da Boss, and live visuals by Erik Wilson.

Simultaneously, the Joe Henderson Lab presents a diverse lineup of live sets from Jada Imani, Samplelov, & Isaias Medellin & Solar X Tet.

The second floor Fisher Family Lobby will host a community market with DJs, artists, and a variety of local vendors.

ABOUT MELANIE CHARLES
Brooklyn-based Melanie Charles has transcended jazz vocalist conventions as a contemporary singer, multi-instrumentalist, beat maker, and composer. Her collaboration with a pair of fellow New York natives, drummer Cinque “Ignabu” Kemp and keyboardist Paul Wilson Bae, began in 2019 at a rehearsal for a performance at the 41st annual Wall to Wall concert series at Symphony Space devoted to John Coltrane. They have curated a body of work exploring his legacy via found footage, interviews and samples of his contemporaries to create a 4-movement tribute.

ABOUT MARK DE CLIVE-LOWE
“A musical force unlike any other” (Popmatters), Producer, electronic musician, and pianist Mark de Clive-Lowe is an artist with established roots in multiple sonic worlds.

Early exposure to Tokyo’s thriving club scene cemented the desire for serious study of jazz, and later immersion in hip-hop and R&B while a teen in Auckland gave the budding producer his first taste of collaboration with other like-minded musicians.

A major developer of the broken beat scene blending cutting-edge electronics, classic funk, and percussion-heavy global influences with a distinctly jazz-inspired approach, he has collaborated with Lauren Hill, Kamasi Washington, Eric Harland, Sheila E, Jody Watley, Hiatus Kaiyote, bass virtuoso Pino Palladino and dozens more, contributing to over 300 releases while releasing 23 full-length albums and nine EPs under his own name.