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Bruce Ackley Trio and Quartet - The Forest and the Zoo: A Celebration of the Music of Steve Lacy

To complete a cycle of tributes to the late soprano sax specialist and innovator, Bruce Ackley will present a pair of two set concerts, one each in Oakland and San Francisco. The concerts will offer two aspects of Lacy’s work from distant periods of his career: Tips, a cycle of songs he wrote based on Georges Braque aphorisms, and a quartet set inspired by his 1966 ESP-Disk free jazz outing, The Forest and the Zoo. Ackley, along with Phillip Greenlief and Aurora Josephson performed Tips several times around 2007, and felt compelled to redo it. For the Forest and the Zoo set Ackley will premiere a new quartet, featuring Lisa Mezzacappa, Darren Johnston, and the remarkable poet, Clark Coolidge (who is also a drummer and the ideal percussionist for the program).

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