**Qur'an Shaheed** This performance will feature Qur'an's new film 'Pulse' with a live free jazz interpretation score. The film and Jazz piece are rooted in empowerment and expansion of music and internal growth. Pulse is an hour-long, loopable dance film exploring intimacy as a universal human experience. Rather than focusing on gender or traditional romance, the work centers on the emotional and physical language that develops between two people — through movement, the simplicity of spending time in shared spaces, and closeness without touch. Pulse also uses plants to mirror one's own natural habits. We tend to flow with each other and find beauty in the improvisation of life. Inspired by the expressive visual language of Bollywood cinema, the film emphasizes atmosphere over narrative. **Mekala Session & The Pan Afrikan People Arkestra** Mekala Session is a young drummer and musical polymath raised in the fold of the multi-generational Los Angeles jazz band Pan Afrikan People’s Arkesta. For the past few years, he’s been largely responsible for leading this legendary band into the future while keeping the light of its founder Horace Tapscott shining bright. In 2026 Mekala was selected by the Los Angeles Jazz Society Jeff Clayton Memorial New Note program to compose a new piece which will be premiered at this concert.