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Thu, Mar 26
|Sam First
Shirazette & The Healing Sessions Part 1
Shirazette Tinnin (drums & band leader), Tabari Lake (bass), Jovia Armstrong (percussion), Hugo Suarez (piano), Curtis Taylor (trumpet) 8:00 & 9:30 | 21+
Mar 26, 2020, 8:00 PM
Sam First, 6171 W Century Blvd Suite 180, Los Angeles, CA 90045, USA
SANTA MONICA, CA - New York City based musician Shirazette Tinnin arrived in brisk, sunny Santa Monica in the beginning of February, and she could not wait to get started. As a nationally renowned Jazz drummer, Tinnin was selected as 18th Street Arts Center 2020 Make Jazz Fellow for emerging Jazz composers. During her three-month stay in one of 18th Streets spacious live/work studios, Tinnin will compose a new album about her time in Santa Monica, intermingled with how she has navigated a recent period of intense grief after the passing of her father three years ago, and her mother just this past June.
I am thinking of this album as The Healing Project, and it’s about expressing the complex hills and valleys of grief. In a way, this is giving me time to mourn, to mourn through music.
Tinnin is also an accomplished educator, founding a program called Books,…