With support from the California Arts Council, Tomato Sage Consortium, with Francis Wong as Project Director, William Roper as Lead Artist, Steven L. Isoardi, Ph.D. as advisor, will produce “Up from the Ashes”, an oral history and community engagement project exploring the experiences of multiple generations of musicians and composers in Altadena who lost everything in the Eaton Wildfire. Through video interviews of ten artists in Altadena, the project will document the contributions of these important culture bearers at this critical time, uncovering their reflections on the loss of home, their life’s work, and potentially generational wealth, as they fight to maintain the spirit, vision, and artistic legacy of jazz music and community in the aftermath of the fires. The project culminates with a film and public programming in Altadena, Pasadena and Los Angeles.