The Music of Julius Hemphill

Join us for an evening of jazz saxophone as UCLA faculty and advanced students perform music from Julius Hemphill's The Sextet Collection, under the direction of Alex Harding. Hemphill emerged in the 1980s as one of the premiere jazz composers of his era, offering an aesthetic model that contrasted with Wynton Marsalis's neo-hard bob movement. Along with David Murray, Oliver Lake, and Hamiett Blueitt, Hemphill founded in 1977 the extremely influe...