Intercultural Improvisation Ensemble - The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

Intercultural

Improvisation

Ensemble

Intercultural Improvisation Ensemble

Intercultural Improvisation

Course Info:
Global Jazz Studies 176F

Director:
Steve Loza

The Intercultural Improvisation Ensemble experiments with different world music styles and traditions. Musical compositions, often by students in the ensemble, blend different musical instruments representing diverse world areas, and the elements of improvisation play an essential role in the creation of new and/or traditional pieces of music.

Oct 9 Fri
2:00pm
Free
jazz, lectures-symposia
Coltrane at 100: Symposium
On the 100th anniversary of John Coltrane’s birth year, The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music’s global jazz studies program will celebrate this giant of the saxophone, this jazz innovator
Lani Hall Learn More
Oct 10 Sat
7:00pm
Free
jazz
Coltrane at 100: Concert
On the 100th anniversary of John Coltrane’s birth year, The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music’s global jazz studies program will celebrate this giant of the saxophone, this jazz innovator
Schoenberg Hall Learn More
Nov 22 Sun
7:00pm
Free
jazz
Fall Jazzfest, Concert 1
UCLA student combos and ensembles directed by world-class jazz artists will be performing well-known jazz standards, contemporary works, and pop songs, as well as compositions by the faculty directors and
Schoenberg Hall Learn More