5:15-6:15pm Docents available to discuss the site at the Marion Davies Guest House
6:30-8:00pm Concert

Cellist, conductor, composer and improviser Tomeka Reid is the second recipient of 18th Street Arts Center’s Make-Jazz Residency, funded by the Herb Alpert Foundation. The Residency fosters experimentation by giving exceptional emerging Jazz musicians time to develop new compositions while connecting them to Los Angeles practitioners and audiences. Reid will be premiering new work created during the Residency, and playing with her Jazz Trio - Devin Hoff on bass, Najite Agindotan on drums and Jared Mattson on guitar. Visit http://18thstreet.org/residency-program/international-artists-in-residence/tomeka-reid for more information.

Originally from the Washington, DC area, Tomeka Reid began her formal studies at the age of fourteen under the tutelage of Oliver Edel and went on to receive music degrees from the University of Maryland at College Park and DePaul University in Chicago. She has been featured with ensembles large and small including the Chicago Sinfonietta, Jazz Philharmonic, Jazz Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble as well as Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Ensemble, Mike Reed’s Loose Assembly, Dee Alexander’s Evolution Ensemble, the AACM’s Great Black Music Ensemble (GBME) and as co-leader of the collaborative trio Hear in Now. Reid has performed with such luminaries as Anthony Braxton, George Lewis, Roscoe Mitchell, Edward Wilkerson, Myra Melford, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Daniel Levin, Tomas Fujiwara, Mary Halvorson, Ingrid Laubrock, Mazz Swift, Silvia Bolognesi, Denis Fournier, and Didier Petit.

She is a recipient of a 2008 residency for composition from the Ragdale Foundation, and was commissioned in 2009 to compose for the GBME for the 31st Annual Chicago Jazz Festival. In 2011 the Chicago Jazz Ensemble commissioned her to compose a tribute to Melba Liston and Randy Weston for the 33rd Annual Chicago Jazz Festival. Currently she is a doctoral candidate in Jazz studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Stop by early for information on the Beach House by docents from the Santa Monica Conservancy.

Tickets are free but space is limited and reservations are required. If you would like to attend, please reserve online. Please plan to arrive by 6:15pm to retain your reservation. Late seating, even for reservation-holders, is not guaranteed. To adjust or cancel your reservation for this event, email beachhouse@smgov.net. We appreciate your keeping in touch!

Directions: The Beach House is located at 415 Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Monica, CA 90402 on the west side of Pacific Coast Highway, a half mile north of the California Incline and a half mile south of Chautauqua Blvd. Plenty of public parking is available - enter off PCH at the Beach House Way traffic light. The facility is easily accessible by foot or bike from the beach bike path, although the Beach closes at sunset. There is ample bike parking at racks throughout the site - remember to bring your own lock.

Parking: For weekday evening Beach=Culture events October - April starting at 5pm, there is a special $5 parking charge at the park and pay machines available in three areas of the ACBH parking lot. Machines take cards and cash and this special rate is only for Beach=Culture attendees; please inform the attendant you are here for Beach=Culture. For regular fees and parking lot hours, please check the website for details.

Other events: To view & make reservations for future free Beach=Culture events, check http://annenbergbeachhouse.com/beachculture.

General Info: For hours, events and more, visit http://www.annenbergbeachhouse.com, or call 310-458-4904. Back on the Beach Café hours are subject to change but generally close by 3pm on winter weekdays - call ahead.