This will be the first time multi-instrumentalist Jessica Lurie and pianist
Thollem McDonas meet in person, on stage, in sound. These two extraordinarily eclectic world traveling vanguard musicians will present spontaneous respirations between the known and the unknown. In the second set the quartet of Jessica, Thollem, bassist
Lisa Mezzacappa and drummer/percussionist
Spirit will take it further.
About
Jessica Lurie is an award-winning multi-instrumentalist, composer and improvisor for multimedia, dance, theater and film. She leads her own Ensemble and has co-led the Tiptons Saxophone Quartet for 20 years. In addition to her own bands, current collaborative projects include Jewish Afro-beat band Zion80, The Living Daylights Trio, Sephardic music group Sofie Salonika, the Improvisational Slingshot Songs with Beth Fleenor and Sam Boshnack, the Far Cry flute quartet with Robert Dick and Jamie Baum and punk-jazz group the Romeo Studs.
She has worked with Fred Frith, David Krakauer, Bill Frisell, Allison Miller, Chuck D, Indigo Girls, Scott Amendola, Todd Sickafoose, Mark Ribot, Sleater Kinney, Karl Denson, Frank London, Vinicio Caposella, Nels Cline, Jacob Fred Jazz Odessy, Kenny Wolleson, Bernie Worrell and Ivan Neville among others. She has collaborated on over 50 multi-media works with visual artist Danijel Zezelj, Great Small Works and NYC's Circus Amok. www.jessicalurie.com
“An intense and virtuosic keyboardist" (Time Out New York),
Thollem McDonas travels perpetually as a performer, comproviser, activist and teacher, covering much of the North American continent and Europe. "He inhabits a world uniquely his own, rhythmically, harmonically and formally." (Terry Riley) www.thollem.com
Lisa Mezzacappa is a San Francisco Bay Area-based bassist, composer, and musical instigator. http://www.lisamezzacappa.com/
Spirit's thirty year career as a percussionist spans from New York to Berkeley, working with Julius Hemphill, Alan Shorter and the late bassist Jay Oliver in New York; and Butch and Wilbur Morris, Idris Ackamoor, Rasul Siddik, Prince Lasha, Oluyemi Thomas in the Bay Area. Butch and Wilbur Morris, Idris Ackamoor, Rasul Siddik, Prince Lasha, Oluyemi Thomas in the Bay Area.
Cost: $10-$20 sliding
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
Lisa Mezzacappa's Eartheaters - Live at YBCA
Thollem McDonas at Jazzores Festival, Teatro Micaelense, Ponta Delgado, The Azores, Portugal
More info: www.thollem.com/howled-ground