Musician Aaron Livingston (Son Little) will perform at 7 p.m., Dec. 6 at SALA Event Center. Courtesy/LLA

COMMUNITY News:

Live in Los Alamos presents musician Son Little at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 6 at SALA Event Center.

Aaron Livingston (Son Little) is described as a “polyglot translator and rightful torchbearer of the celebrated musical tradition known as rhythm and blues” (R&B). Continuing to revolutionize the modern understanding and expectation of the R&B sound in his newest album “Like Neptune”, Son Little delivers an unadulterated transmission of Black American music performed in its praying and pleading mother tongue. With it, he completes the daunting tasks of confronting himself and pushing his sound to completion.

Son Little honed and refined the unique sound he employed producing soul music legend Mavis Staples’ 2015 Your Good Fortune EP (including a GRAMMY Award-winning cover of “See That My Grave Is Kept Clean” in 2017) and writing and producing with blues soul singer Deva Mahal.

“Like Neptune” also marks a return to Son Little’s origins in the east coast underground hip-hop and soul scene, which lead to collaborations with The Roots (“Guns Are Drawn” and “Sleep”) and Icebird partner and frequent-collaborator RJD2 (“Crumbs Off The Table”), and later Portugal the Man (“Woodstock”).

Tickets can be purchased at liveinlosalamos.com or at the Los Alamos Schools Credit Union to avoid a service fee.