Enjoy some jazz on October 22, 2026, with Jazz Refractions: Zeena Parkins How She Works + The Smudges at Culver City’s own Wende Museum.
The music featured in Jazz Refractions is rooted in the jazz tradition of radical improvisation, freedom, and technical mastery. However, once it passes through the Angel City’s lens, it bends, distorts, and shatters into entirely new forms unrestricted by musical genres.
The Smudges will begin the show at 8 pm with genre defying compositions, daring improvisations and electronically manipulated sounds; The Smudges are ‘cellist’ Maggie Parkins and violinist Jeff Gauthier. Followed by Zeena Parkins at 9 pm with custom designed electronics, guitar pedals, bows, bolts, bells, corks, samples, sponges and visuals, the beginnings of a new solo project has emerged, How She Works.
