* Selendis Sebastian Alexander Johnson Big Band
Sun, Mar 29
|Black Squirrel Club
Rising Star Big Band made from the cutting edge improvisors from the Big Apple. Opener TBA.
Time & Location
Mar 29, 2026, 7:30 PM
Black Squirrel Club, 1049 Sarah St, Philadelphia, PA 19125, USA
About the event
$15 to 30
The Selendis Sebastian Alexander Johnson Big Band started 3 years ago as a project at The New School where Johnson returned immediately upon graduation to work as a guest professor leading a big band class twice a week to perform Cal Massey’s Black Liberation Movement Suite, and Fred Ho’s Struggle for a New World Suite. From there Johnson continued to book big band shows performing excerpts from those works, as well as Duke Ellington & Monk pieces, connected together with long conductioned and non-conductioned improvisations. The personnel are always shifting between an always expanding pool of about 35 people right now.