TOD DICKOW with CHARGED PARTICLES

Smoking and intense from beginning to end, Veteran Bay Area trio Charged Particles, with Tod Dickow will electrify you!!

Birds of a Feather is so pleased to welcome tenor saxophonist Tod Dickow with the Bay Area trio Charged Particles for their debut here, playing funky Latin jazz.Downbeat Magazine called the band “something special” and “inventive, invigorating, and mesmerizing.”

Jazz Times magazine said they’re “enormously talented”. Nippertown Magazine said the band’s performance at the Albany Riverfront Jazz Festival was “thrilling” and “the peak set of the day”. The Oxford Times said their performance was “brilliant”. Jazz and Blues Report said: “Charged Particles is definitely dazzling.” Jazz Podium said they are “a tight unit that keeps the band sound exciting and the intensity high.” L.A. Jazz Scene said they offer “exciting music” that JazzThing magazine said “sizzles and pulsates.”

The band has toured in Indonesia, Canada, England, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and Sweden, in addition to playing 170 concerts each year all over the U.S. They have appeared in such famed venues as Vibrato, the Baked Potato, Yoshi’s, Ronnie Scott’s, Birdland, Blues Alley, the Dakota, the Musical Instrument Museum, the Rochester Jazz Festival, the Columbus Jazz Festival, the Stanford Jazz Festival, the San Luis Obispo Jazz Festival, the Eureka Springs Jazz Festival, SF Jazz, and hundreds of others.Their 2021 CD “Live at the Baked Potato!” was included on “Best of the year” lists in JazzTimes Magazine, Jazzwise Magazine, All About Jazz, the Mercury News, Glide Magazine, the Jazz Journalists Association Poll, and the Jazz Critics Poll.

Dickow is “one of the best saxophonists in the world” according to Jazz Life Magazine, and his playing has been recognized by outstanding soloist awards at the Pacific Coast Jazz Festival and the Outstanding Soloist award from Down Beat Magazine. He has appeared with numerous celebrated artists, including Ella Fitzgerald, Nancy Wilson, Joe Henderson, Bobby Hutcherson, Jackie & Roy, Harry Connick Jr, Steve Allen, Terry Gibbs, Frank Sinatra Jr., Dave Brubeck, and many more.

Watching the group perform, it’s obvious that they have fun playing together and admire each other’s musical instincts, as will you!

PLEASE NOTE!!! BIRDS OF A FEATHER IS INSIDE THE AWARD-WINNING VIETNAMESE VEGAN RESTAURANT, "AU LAC". 710 w. 1st St in Downtown L.A....on the corner of 1st and Hope.

Where is parking located?

Parking is located under the building, accessible from west of the building off of 1st St. between Bunker Hill Towers and the mini-shopping center AU LAC is in.

Once you’ve turned into the large driveway, turn left into the garage “Guest Parking and Residence Parking of The Promendade”. $12 CASH ONLY.

Additional parking is located directly across Hope St. at Disney Hall - 111 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012. $10.

There is limited street parking in front of Au Lac, Disney Hall and The Music Center.