The Jazz Mafia Symphony

Brass, Bows, and Beats by Rachel Swan Judging from the Facebook frenzy that followed, Adam Theis' hip-hop symphony must have been explosive when it premiered last year at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre. Not that it's the first of its kind — dAKAH Symphonic Hip-Hop Orchestra has haunted Los Angeles for roughly twenty years — but it's definitely a crowning achievement for local bandleader Theis ...