Sharing the same body in their past lives, Brown Calculus perform with melanated synergy. Keyboardist and beat maker, Brown Calvin, and singer/songwriter, Brown Alice, are Geminis, illuminating the sacredness of Black music, seeking to bring about community on Earth and beyond. They explore the soundscapes of the post-soul movement. Revealing the connection between complicated time signatures and Black divinity, with a cosmic sound that remains grounded.

Adriana Wagner is an up-and-coming trombonist and composer based in Portland, Oregon. Wagner earned her Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies at Portland State University, studying with George Colligan and Darrell Grant. She formed her quartet in 2022 and has since been featured as an emerging bandleader in festivals such as the PDX Jazz Festival, Vancouver Wine & Jazz Festival, Creative Music Guild Festival, and Seaside Jazz and Blues Festival. Her original compositions weave styles together forming a unique sound under a decided jazz banner, submerging the listener in visionary storytelling. As a performer, Wagner uses lyrical elements to create melodies combined with a soft, rich tone that can resonate above or become immersed within the composition’s harmonic structures. 

She was selected for the Young Jazz Composers program in 2021, highlighted by an in-depth article from Oregon Arts Watch. Wagner was recently named one of the inaugural recipients of the Music Oregon Echo Fund grant to help create her debut album. Her album “She Sleeps, She Wakes” was released on PJCE Records featuring her original compositions. The album was recently featured on Best Jazz on Bandcamp 2024. Wagner has immersed herself in the Portland scene, performing in genres ranging from Salsa music to Big Band to Pop with artists such as Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble, Brown Branch Big Band, George Colligan, Domo Branch, Lily Sheers, Nicole McCabe, Pleasure, PDX Jazz Presents: The American Refrain, Cambalache Orquestra and Pura Vida Orchestra.