STOOP SESSION 5 : Jasim Perales Trio + jam session

Friday, December 16 at 7-9PM, doors open at 6:15PM.
At 1-800 Happy Birthday
7 Knickerbocker Avenue

Trombonist Jasim Perales, a native of Oakland, California, started playing trombone in the fourth grade, and was exposed to jazz while attending the Oakland Public Conservatory of Music Summer Program, under the tutelage of Angela Wellman. Jasim has played in various settings with such esteemed professionals as Richard Howell, Joshua Redman, Mary Stallings, Melissa Aldana, Bob Mintzer, Robin Eubanks, Sean Jones, David Sanchez, Steve Turre, Wynton Marsalis, Ted Nash, Terri Lyne Carrington, John Clayton, Gerald Clayton, Jeff Hamilton, Chad Lefkowitz-Brown, Frank Lacy, Lenny White, Reggie Workman, Richard Cortez, FENDI, Pedro Giraudo, Dan Pugach, Darcy James Argue, Bryan Carter, Andy Farber, Miho Hazama, the Mingus Big Band, Arturo O’Farrill, the Arturo O’Farrill Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, and the O’Jays. Jasim was also a five-year member of the SFJAZZ High School All-Stars program. Jasim has been a member of the Next Generation Jazz Orchestra, Vail Jazz Workshop, and GRAMMY Band, and has toured with these ensembles in Canada, Japan, and Cuba. A few years ago, he was recognized as a YoungArts Merit Award winner. He currently studies at the Juilliard School under the tutelage of musicians such as Elliot Mason, Frank Kimbrough, Steve Turre, Charenee Wade, Jason Jackson, and Wynton Marsalis. Jasim Perales is a recipient of a Jerome L. Greene Fellowship at The Juilliard School.

To attend, please register below.

About Stoop sessions

Join us every other Friday at 7pm for Stoop Sessions at 1-800 Happy Birthday—the exhibition honoring Black and Brown lives killed by police. With these live jazz music events we are celebrating Black and Brown culture and legacy in America.

Stoop Sessions are organized in partnership with Ornithology Jazz Club and Gotham Yardbird Sanctuary who curated Stoop Sessions 2-5.

About 1-800 Happy Birthday

1-800 Happy Birthday is an exhibition honoring Black and Brown lives killed by police. Originally a voicemail project, now transformed into a large-scale exhibition in a 10,000 square-foot warehouse, 1-800 Happy Birthday is created by artist Mohammad Gorjestani and Even/Odd, curated by Klaudia Ofwona Draber, with artistic direction by Neil Hamamoto, and presented by arts nonprofit WORTHLESSSTUDIOS with the aim of honoring the lives of those lost too soon. The families of Dujuan Armstrong, Sandra Bland, Philando Castile, Stephon Clark, Fred Cox, Eric Garner, Oscar Grant, Xzavier Hill, Donovon Lynch, Sean Monterrosa, Tony Robinson, and Mario Woods are participating in the exhibition.