Hammer Music
Ron Miles' Blossom
"It’s no secret why Ron Miles is one of the most highly regarded trumpeters of his generation. His rich, burnished tone and supple lyricism have won over ... fans who appreciate understatement, whispered dissonance, wry humor." —All About Jazz
Denver trumpeter Ron Miles brings his moody, grooving band to the Hammer in a rare West Coast performance. Miles has performed in groups led by jazz/pop superstars Bill Frisell, Madeleine Peyroux, Don Byron, and Ginger Baker. In his keyboard and guitar-driven group Blossom, he infuses jazz forms with dreamy, bare folk and pop sounds, including arrangements of songs by The Partridge Family and The Jackson Five.
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Henry Coombes
Artist Talk
Join Henry Coombes for an evening of in-depth discussion about the Scottish artist’s drawings, paintings and sculptures as well as selected screenings of his amusing, disturbing and surreal films. Coombes explores the tension between instinctual, natural impulses and the constraints of polite society. He presents viewers with seemingly idyllic scenarios that gradually delve deeper into the darker inclinations of human nature.
Hammer Artist Talks include lively Q&A sessions with the audience and offer a great chance to learn more about important emerging artists from the artists themselves. For his first exhibition in an American museum, Coombes’s Laddy and the Lady (2005) and Gralloch (2007) are on view in the Hammer Video Gallery through September 7th.
HAMMER Readings
Meghan Daum & Nina Revoyr
Meghan Daum is a columnist at the Los Angeles Times and has written for The New Yorker, Harper’s, GQ, Vogue, and The New York Times, among others. She is the author of the bestselling essay collection My Misspent Youth,, the critically acclaimed novel The Quality of Life Report, and is currently working on a book about real estate and identity entitled Give Me Shelter, due out in 2010. Nina Revoyr is the author of three novels: The Necessary Hunger, Southland, and The Age of Dreaming. Library Journal has called her new novel, The Age of Dreaming, “fast-moving, riveting, unpredictable, and profound” and Los Angeles Magazine writes that Revoyr is “fast becoming one of the city’s finest chroniclers and myth-makers.”
Sunday Afternoons for Kids
Pamela Ribon
Attention funny people and jokesters: Your writing skills are needed for the Five-Minute Sitcom Workshop. Learn how to make characters wacky enough for TV, then bring them to life by writing a short sitcom script! Led by Pamela Ribon, a novelist and television writer who has worked with some very funny people. Are you next?
Hammer Music
Vinny Golia Sextet
"Music that is at once sweeping and precisely observed, hilarious and dire, vulgar and sublime."
—One Final Note Magazine
A multi-instrumentalist bandleader and composer, “Vinny Golia is the abbot of LA edge jazz” (LA Weekly). With his commanding and riveting presence on a variety of saxophones, clarinets, and flutes, Golia delivers every note like it’s his last, and leads a band with electric intensity. His new electric sextet mixes rock momentum with aggressive solos and group improvisations, drawing from the LA music scene’s most accomplished and adventurous musicians.
Photo: Scott Groller
