Shakoor Hakeem & María Grand with Bashi Rose

Shakoor Hakeem & María Grand with Bashi Rose

Thursday, August 13, 2026
Doors 6pm, Music 7pm
All ages
Tickets: $14 adv/$17 day-of

Shakoor Hakeem is a percussionist and improviser whose work expands the role of rhythm in contemporary jazz and creative music. Rooted in Afro-diasporic traditions yet shaped by experimental practice, Hakeem approaches percussion as a tool for texture, space, and collective ritual rather than strict timekeeping. His playing emphasizes tone, restraint, and deep listening, often transforming the ensemble into a living, breathing sound environment.

Emerging from the fertile Philadelphia creative music scene, Hakeem has performed and collaborated with respected jazz and avant-garde artists, engaging directly with lineages shaped by legendary improvisers and elders of the music. Through these collaborations, he has absorbed the philosophies of musicians who view jazz as a living tradition—one that values cultural memory, risk, and spiritual intention as much as technique.

Rather than imitate the past, Hakeem abstracts its lessons, blending ancestral rhythmic knowledge with contemporary improvisation. His work reflects a commitment to innovation through listening, community, and integrity, positioning him as a vital voice in the ongoing evolution of creative jazz and experimental percussion.

María Grand is a saxophonist, composer, educator, and vocalist. She has performed with her ensembles all over Europe and North America; she has also played and/or recorded with creative music luminaries such as Joel Ross, Mary Halvorson, Antoine Roney, Nicole Mitchell, and more. Her debut EP “TetraWind” was picked as “one of the 2017’s best debuts” by the NYC Jazz Record and her full-length albums Magdalena, Reciprocity, and Anohin were praised by major publications such as the New York Times, Downbeat, JazzTimes, Billboard, JazzIz, and others. The New York Times calls her “an engrossing young tenor saxophonist with a zesty attack and a solid tonal range”, while Vijay Iyer says she is “a fantastic young saxophonist, virtuosic, conceptually daring, with a lush tone, a powerful vision, and a deepening emotional resonance.”

Bashi Rose, founder of Konjur Collective is a Theatre Artist, Musician, Poet, Teaching Artist, and Filmmaker. As a multidisciplinary artist, Bashi seeks to evoke his ancestors’ love/warrior spirit and to engage in collective improvisation that empowers individual artists to fully express themselves outside of capitalist constructs that tend to extract Black expression of its sacred, rebellious, and revolutionary spirit. The pulse and intensity of Bmore reverberate throughout Bashi’s creative expression.