THIEFS
Wed, Oct 21
|Birds of a Feather Jazz Lounge - Au Lac
Based in Paris and New York and touring their new album Survivalism, electro-acoustic trio THIEFS traverses the wide space between head-nod beat music and open improvisation.
Time & Location
Oct 21, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Birds of a Feather Jazz Lounge - Au Lac, 710 W. 1st Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
About the event
Thiefs is a mix of jazz, hip-hop, electronica, and spoken word that is “transcending the concept of idiom altogether” (JazzTimes). If you ask Thiefs co-leader Keith Witty, this is the essence of 21st century jazz.
“Jazz needs to have an element of freedom,” says Witty. “It should reflect culture.”
A group molded by collaboration, social reflection, and a highly skilled core trio of players, Thiefs is Christophe Panzani (sax, electronics), Keith Witty (bass, electronics), and David Frazier Jr. (acoustic & electric drums).
The transatlantic trio from Paris and New York released Graft last year, an album that the New York Times hails for its “startling mash of natural and synthetic, resonant and fractured” sounds. An evocative odyssey, its subject matter is so pertinent in this political moment: identity, dislocation, migration, and otherness.
“Graft is the idea of being augmented, stripped bare, transformed by cultural experiences, by places, by the movement of people,”…