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If there’s anyone who pretty much defines the vibraphone in jazz, that cool sound like lemonade on a hot, summer day, it’s the legendary Roy Ayers. He’s reminded us that everybody does indeed love the sunshine, he’s a storyteller to human and butterflies up in the sky alike, and he’s the second definition any dictionary would give you for “Ubiquity”. Look it up. The man is a legend. -Anthony Dean-Harris

ROY AYERS 7:15pm DURHAM ARMORY

Robert Glasper is a titan of our modern era. He can play in any musical direction he so chooses and can turn on a dime; his work producing albums cements his footprint in the jazz canon, however people like to define it nowadays; his joviality and musicality that is his general state of being as a man on his earth is so in tuned with how he expresses it through the keys, piano, keyboard or otherwise has rightfully earned the praise the world over that he has been working so hard to achieve. -Anthony Dean-Harris

ROBERT GLASPER TRIO 12:00am DURHAM ARMORY

Kenny Garrett is one of the giants of our time. A multi-Grammy award winning, DownBeat poll topping, saxophone and flute playing legend who’s played with Pharoah Sanders, John McLaughlin, Chick Corea, and Miles Davis in his electric period but Garrett’s solo work ain’t anything to sneeze at, either. his latest albums on the Mack Avenue label, like last year’s Pushing the World Away, has been been award-worthy work. -Anthony Dean-Harris

KEnnY GARRETT QUInTET 10:45pm MOTORCO MUSIC HALL

As a leader Eve has recorded and co-produced three albums entitled, “Faces of Eve”, “I Feel Like Some Jazz Today” and “Live @ Smoke”…these varying projects embodying Jazz , Funk, Soul, Blues, R&B, Vocalese and Composition…display an openness to versatility and creativity. She has performed live with numerous musicians [Chucho Valdez, Mary Lou Williams, Roy Hargrove] and was also featured on albums with Ramsey Lewis, Norman Connors, Javon Jackson, Teo Macero… to name a few.

EvE CORnELIOUS 9:00pm pSI THeATeR @ D.A.C.

The major parallel between the poetry of yesteryear’s Romantic era and the music being pumped out by today’s soul extraordinaire, and figurehead of the The Romantic Movement soul collective, Jesse Boykins III, is the idea that emotion should be pushed to the forefront. In Boykins’ case, this raw emotion has almost everything to do with love and romance, instead of some sort of abstract ideal of enlightenment. -Eric Tullis

JESSE BOYKInS III 10:45pm DURHAM ARMORY

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The New York based octet, Mad Satta, blew it’s biggest gust of fresh, jazz-scented air into soul music’s atmosphere with the release of it’s debut album. Mad Satta’s Comfort LP, was built on an intentional, instrumental offensive, with lead singer, Joanna Teters, at the helm. With a voice possessed by a velvety richness that’s perfectly suited to take on a cover like Curtis Mayfield’s The Makings of You,” Teters’ capabilities lend themselves to original cool as well.-Cameron Jernigan presented by Revive Music

MAD SATTA 8:00pm MOTORCO MUSIC HALL

With only a couple of albums under their belt–2012’s Be Free and 2014’s Please Rewind–horn/reed players, Andris Mattson, Max Bryk, Amber Navran, of the jazz and soul trio, Moonchild, have built a considerable following among both the neo-soul-hungover crowd and traditional jazz lovers who don’t mind the genre’s evolution. For much of this, we have lead singer Amber Navran to thank, whose voice whistles and whooshes in out of the band’s soul claps, horn melodies, and synth shades.-Eric Tullis

MOOnCHILD 10:20pm pInHOOk

Kris Bowers is on fire. The 2011 Thelonious Monk piano competition winner has been a downright astonishment backing José James, switching off with Robert Glasper, shining alongside Lauren Desberg, or being just plain amazing on his own, particularly on his debut album, Heroes and Misfits. This young (and tall, very tall) talent knows his way around a keyboard and will be one of those artists who you’ll still be hearing blowing minds forty years from now. -Anthony Dean-Harris

KRIS BOwERS 9:30pm MOTORCO MUSIC HALL

Music superstar Prince knows what audiences around the world also know. When Mike Phillips puts his saxophone to his lips, magic is about to happen.Experts know greatness. That’s why Phillips is the only musician in the world to have recorded and toured with the legendary “Big Three” of American soul music: Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson and Prince. But you don’t have to be a music deity to appreciate Phillips gifts.

MIKE PHILLIPS 10:15pm pSI THeATeR @ D.A.C.

friday 4/24 #AOCFEST ARTISTSThere are likely fewer more appropriate names for a band than for the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble. Their ability to leap throughout genre, back any artist who’s got a soul, and gather up a crowds affection fits squarely in their job description. The Chicago-based octet made up of the of a whole heap of the Brothers Hubert and Graves has been turning heads for the last fifteen years now, performing with the likes of Prince, Femi Kuti, Erykah Badu, the Wu Tang Clan, Maxwell, and many others. -Anthony Dean-Harris

HYPnOTIC BRASS EnSEMBLE 6:15pm DURHAM ARMORY


Trumpeter Takuya Kuroda is one of the finest artists in jazz today. Over the years, the Blue Note recording artists has matured his compositional and improvisational tone to one less concerned with being flashy and more concerned about reaching the soul, and he has flourished all the more for taking this approach. He’s definitely one to look forward to when backing José James or playing with Kris Bowers. -Anthony Dean-Harris

TAKUYA KURODA 11:35pm pInHOOk

“I am merely a middle man trying to bring you and true love together. LOVElife is my melodic contribution…,” wrote Oakland-bred soul sage, Chris Turner, about his late 2012, mixtape master suite, LOVElife Is A Challenge. As a frequent, featured vocalist of the genre-twisting jazz band ERIMAJ and one of the core members of the experimental-soul music collective, the Romantic Movement, Turner has helped usher in a fresh take on passion-laced R&B music. -Eric Tullis

CHRIS TURnER 8:40pm pInHOOk

Al Strong is a Washington, D.C. native trumpeter, arranger, and composer. Since he first emerged on the scene in 1998 as a Jazz Studies major at North Carolina Central University, Strong has been an emerging artist in jazz. He has been described as being “among those leading Durham jazz into a resurgence.” (The Independent – Sylvia Pfeiffenberger). Strong is also a founder of the non-profit jazz advocacy organization, The Art of Cool Project.

AL STROnG 8:00pm pSI THeATeR @ D.A.C.

Over the past several years, Carlitta Durand has been a constant name in the underground hip-hop, r&b, and soul scene. Most often associated with her contributions on Little Brother albums and for providing stand-out hooks on various artists’ records and projects, Carlitta has garnered much acclaim from collaborations which include an impressive list of notable and highly praised artists and producers.

CARLITTA DURAnD 10:00pm DURHAM ARMORY

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Born in Winston-Salem, NC, 9th Wonder is a Grammy Award Winning Producer, DJ, College Lecturer, and Social Activist. Since his introduction to hip-hop in 1982, 9th has been immersed in the music and culture of the art form, while gaining experience in music theory throughout middle and high school. 9th attended North Carolina Central University, where he decided to pursue a career in music. He has taught music related courses at NCCU, Duke University & Harvard Universty.

9TH wOnDER BULLpen 11:15am

Mark Anthony Neal is an American author and academic. He is a professor at Duke University, where he won the Hip-Hop Scholar of the Year from the Words, Beats and Life Foundation in 2012. Neal has written and lectured extensively on black popular culture, black masculinity, sexism and homophobia in Black communities, and the history of popular music.Neal hosts the weekly webcast Left of Black and is a frequent commentator for NPR, and contributor to several on-line media outlets, including Huff Post Black Voices.

MARK AnTHOnY-nEAL BULLpen 11:15am

Music meets Science in a one-of-a-kind Hackathon. Dr. Emdin will start us off with a performance about the intersections of science, music, and innovation. Then, audience members will break out to solve a problem Hackathon-style right in the heart of American Underground’s startup bullpen.This event is geared toward high school students. Pre-service and new teachers are encouraged to attend as well. Presented in partnership with NC Science Festival

DR. CHRIS EMDIn BULLpen 1:00pm

saturday 4/25 #INNOVATEYOURCOOL PRESENTERSKendra Foster deems music her purpose, and approaches her music as an unassuming, multi-dimensional, progressive ministry. Like many, she started singing in church, but her career began while at F.A.M.U. Over the past 3 years Kendra began writing with the incomparable, D'Angelo on his Black Messiah album and sings background in his band, The Vanguard, on his first tours in a decade. Currently Kendra is grooming her forthcoming solo studio album which will be an eclectic variety of subject matter and sounds.

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Anthony Hamilton performing his 2003, breakout LP, Comin’ from Where I’m From. A heroine of this album, the tear-stained “Charlene,” also served as Hamilton’s muse when he needed to vent “I’m A Mess,” praise his lady, “Since I Seen’t You” or take care of things in the bedroom, “Float.” After seeing Hamilton, in person, finess all of the songs from this groundbreaking love suite, sitting down for a listen to the studio recording of Comin’ from Where I’m From will never be the same. – Eric Tullis

AnTHOnY HAMILTOn 8:00pm DURHAM ATHLeTIC pARk

One cannot deny the appeal of Snarky Puppy. The 2014 Grammy-winning large ensemble originally from Denton, Texas, now residing in Brooklyn, New York, has been a whole bunch of fun for ten years now, playing a funky, swinging sound as ensnaring much deeper than their whimsical name would imply. Their work with N’Dambi, Chantee Cann, and Lalah Hathaway have been fun listens and winning over the multitudes with their high and tight jams.-Anthony Dean-Harris

SnARKY PUPPY 11:30pm DURHAM ARMORY

Gretchen Parlato wields her voice as though a surgeon would if the only instruments she could use were feathers. She’s the strongest coo in the game. Among those impressive collaborations is that with bassist/guitarist/vocalist Alan Hampton, a quite charming gent whose as dazzling when he sings as when he comps. As a duo, they have the gathered warmth able to power small European villages, or at the very least entrance a crowd of Durhamites. -Anthony Dean-Harris

GRETCHEn PARLATOAnD ALAn HAMPTOn DUO 10:15pm pSI THeATeR @ D.A.C.

Butcher Brown can’t stop. They won’t stop. They may be downright incapable of stopping. Sure, drummer Corey Fonville can go off and back Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah and Nicholas Payton (when they all weren’t backing Payton on his latest album, Numbers, and climbing charts). With them is saxophonist Braxton Cook whose solo work shows a charming sophistication in play that’s a welcome fit whenever he appears, so it’s a good thing he’s appearing here. -Anthony Dean-Harris

BUTCHER BROwn 10:30pm DURHAM ARMORY

On Maimouna Yousef’s The Reintroduction of Mumu Fresh mixtape, the hip-hop legend, MC Lyte, talks about being left speechless after watching the Grammy-nominated singer/emcee perform one of her classic songs. Several songs later, author, professor and public intellectual, Michael Eric Dyson, steps into the recording booth with Yousef to compliment her on “the passion of her poetry,” calling her an “oratorical wizard and rhetorical genius.” This is Yousef’s world—b-girl love and praises from brilliant thinkers.– Eric Tullis

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“Soul Understated is a skillful ensemble, adeptly and seemingly effortlessly weaving together soul, jazz, funk and gospel, like so many threads in a tapestry, and Ms. Poole does not miss a beat, adding scat and rap to the mix like the final spices in an excellent gumbo.” – Divastation.com

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saturday 4/25 #AOCFEST ARTISTSOne way to look at Ben Williams is to say he’s versatile. He can hold things down as a good bassist should while providing his voice, and he’s done so for Pat Metheny in his Unity Band, for George Benson and the late Joe Sample, for happening folks on the scene like Etienne Charles and Otis Brown III, and in the Concord Jazz’s Next Collective. Yet as a leader, he’s been more than impressive. -Anthony Dean-Harris

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She calls it “Ethio-Soul.” I found out about Ester Rada, early 2014 and was instantly mesmerized. I wanted to know more and definitely wanted to hear her live. Effortlessly combining Soul, Ethiopian Jazz, Funk and R&B, Israeli-born Rada is a musician, vocalist, songwriter and producer who understands her fans have more than one musical mood per day…and sometimes per hour. -Tess Mangum Ocaña, Sonic Pie Productions

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Marc Cary is impressive on all forms of keys. He’s brilliant on the piano playing in the post-bop style and on the Rhodes, he takes music to such interstellar heights while holding to a sense of tradition that makes his talent truly unique. As he releases a new album, Cosmic Indigenous, embracing the depth Cary has shown throughout his career, it’ll be a true joy to see him get down in this direction. Things may get trippy, but Marc Cary can be impressive there, too. -Anthony Dean-Harris

MARC CARY 12:00am pInHOOk

Keyboardist/guitarist Matty Tavares, bassist Chester Hansen, and percussionist Alex Sowinski make bening this based look easy. Moving out of Sowinski’s dad’s basement into their own studio they built themselves, making two mixtapes online, signing to a label and releasing a for real album, III, crisscrossing the globe on hella tours, and making an album with Ghostface Killah just happened to be some stops along the way. They’re, to crassly put things into a narrative, jazz’s bad boys, but they’ve got the chops to back all that. -Anthony Dean-Harris

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These days, it’s not enough to brand your group as just a hip-hop band. That fad may have ended back in 2006 when The Roots’ Game Theory LP made the titular declaration that partytime was over and that there needed to be more meaningful conversations expressed through music. If you can play it well, you should also be able to say it well. This is where the eight-piece, Chicago bunch, Sidewalk Chalk, picks up the slack.– Eric Tullis

SIDEwALK CHALK 9:30pm DURHAM ARMORY

South African born, Nashville and NC based singer/songwriter Laura Reed has become a global success story with her seductive, signature vocal style, her thought-provoking lyricism, and powerhouse live presence; But the insightful artist feels like she’s truly arrived with the release of her acclaimed, aptly titled solo debut album, The Awakening.

LAURA REED 9:45pm pInHOOk

Beautifully rebellious and refreshingly original, The Beast is one of the most imaginative bands to emerge from North Carolina’s burgeoning music scene. The Durham-based quartet fearlessly navigates worlds of hip hop and jazz with compelling lyrics, progressive compositions and a gripping live show.

THE BEAST 9:45pm MOTORCO MUSIC HALL

Canine Heart Sounds are a Durham based quartet, originally formed in Duluth Minnesota in 2007. Its members spent the past few years individually touring as sidemen & recording their debut album across multiple states, ultimately finding a new home in North Carolina in 2012. Though they seek to resist classification, the group draws heavily upon influences of progressive rock, jazz, soul & experimental new music.

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