Event

Early Show:   Doors @ 6:30pm  //  Show @ 7:30pm.

Carlos Niño has always been attuned to the atomic. Twenty-five years ago, when the prolific L.A. percussionist, arranger, and producer was merely a revolutionary teenaged DJ, he designed his radio show Spaceways as a method for tracing back the long lines that led to hip-hop. He’d play jazz and funk records whose samples formed the bedrock of the genre, eventually moving deeper into new age, folk, and recordings from around the world. Judging by the pan-genre music he’s spent his career perfecting, the process trained him to see songs as being made of discrete units: a series of moments that might one day lead elsewhere and connect to unrelated sounds in unexpected ways.

Niño isn’t a traditional bandleader; he’s more of a weather system, hovering over and influencing the events at hand. As it weaves through free jazz, ambient, new age, hip-hop, contemporary classical, and beat music, Actual Presence is often beyond its creator’s ultimate control, which is probably the point; listening to it is like being rocked to sleep in the abyss. Working with frequent collaborators like Jamael Dean, Jamire Williams, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Iasos, Deantoni Parks, and Sam Gendel, Niño subjects these songs to a kind of musical Spirograph, spinning them along and finding joy every way he turns them. Consider it cubist healing music, presenting support from every possible angle.

Note: Ticket holders receive free admission to Jack London's Burly-Q Cabaret after the show!

JLR Seating Map Notes: For this show, you may reserve individual tables on the map pictured. Note that some tables have limited sightlines as noted. General Admission ticket holders note that seating and sightlines are limted and may be standing room only. All table reservations include admission.

Instructions: 

1. For Table Reservations: Note the relative location of the stage and bar on the map. Then click a table number to see prices, or click "Show All Tickets". Click the + button to add a specific table to your cart. 
2. For General Admission tickets: click the "GA Standing" area. Click the + button to add additional tickets.
3. Click "Agree & Checkout"

Carlos Niño & Friends feat. Aaron Shaw