![]() Tina Raymond | Jazz for the City: Tina Raymond and Friends Saturday, June 6, 2026 at 7:30 p.m. Noted jazz drummer Tina Raymond brings some of her best musical friends to cap the Friends of Music season with an evening of jazz. Tina Raymond is an accomplished drummer, composer, bandleader, and educator. Director of Jazz Studies at California State University, Northridge, she received the DownBeat Educator Achievement Award (2020), and is president-elect of California Alliance for Jazz. Her teaching credits include Los Angeles City College, The Herbie Hancock Institute, University of Michigan, Bard College, and Idyllwild Arts. Raymond is a co-leader of Esthesis Quartet with Dawn Clement, Elsa Nilsson, and Emma Dayhuff. In addition to leading projects of her own, she performs as a sidewoman with the likes of Bobby Bradford, Eric Revis, Rachel Eckroth, Vinny Golia, and Billy Mohler. Recent recordings include Divinations (to be released 2023), Esthesis Quartet Time Zones (Ears&Eyes 2023), Boom Session Volume III with Dan Rosenboom, Gary Fukushima, and Eric Revis (Orenda 2022), Trio Subliminal Cinema Infernale (Orenda 2022), and Bobby Bradford’s Stealin’ Home (Cryptogramophone Records 2022). A reception follows the performance. Artists:
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