7:30pm Dave Mihaly's Spillway Trio
Dave Mihaly - marimba/
Bill Noertker - contrabass/
Dax Compise - drums
8:30pm
Noertker's MoxieAnnelise Zamula - tenor sax, flute/Eli Wallace - piano/
Bill Noertker - contrabass/
Dax Compise - drums
Dave Mihaly is a multi-instrumentalist, percussionist, singer and composer. He has played in many jazz, rock, punk, folkloric and experimental bands and is featured on over 40 recordings, including his own Shimmering Leaves Ensemble. He is also a member of DaMaDa, a group that blends folk songs of various Chinese minority tribes with free jazz interpretations.
Bassist/composer
Bill Noertker has been active in the Bay Area jazz and avant-garde scene since the late 1980s. Since 2001, he has lead his own ensemble, Noertker's Moxie, as a forum for his compositions inspired by visual artists such as Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Salvador Dalí, and Joan Miró, architect Antoni Gaudí, poet Rainer Maria Rilke, sculptor David Beck, and others. Noertker has composed over 150 pieces of music for this group and has released eight CDs, including three CDs of his extended suite Sketches of Catalonia, and two volumes of his extended Blue Rider Suite.
He has also composed music for three films that showcase the intimately-scaled sculptures of David Beck, and composed the score for a Nikos Koumoundouros film, The Commandments or the Nostril of Ektor Kaknavatos, that was selected for the Short Film Corner at the prestigious Festival de Cannes 2010. He is now at work scoring the upcoming Olympia Stone film “Curious Worlds: the Art and Imagination of David Beck.”
Cost: $10/$8