FREE! Brown Bag Jazz Hangs @ The Freight: Julius Zimmerman on Moroccan Gnawa & The Blues

Join us for casual daytime talks and listening sessions with leading lights of the Bay Area jazz community. Bring your own lunch or order ahead from the JazzCaffè. Wednesdays at lunchtime! Free, drop-ins welcome.
Our summer series is presented in collaboration with The Freight.
*OFFSITE at The Freight, 2020 Addison St.
This summer, recent graduates of UC Berkeley’s Music Department share their research about jazz, improvisation, and global music as part of our lunchtime series. Julius Zimmerman (BA Music & BA Anthropology ’26) presents research from his senior honors thesis for the UC Berkeley Anthropology and Music departments, and discusses his fieldwork in Morocco supported by the Department of Middle Eastern Studies. His lecture will discuss how Gnawa practice in Morocco has found sympathetic voice in musical movements across the Black Atlantic like the blues, reggae, and jazz; and how figures like Randy Weston, Bob Marley, and Jimi Hendrix all tread the line between “authenticity” and “commodity.”