7:30pm Davis/Hoopes/Wilsey
Evelyn Davis - piano
Jason Hoopes - bass
Jennifer Wilsey - percussion
8:30pm Noertker's Moxie
Annelise Zamula - tenor sax, flute
Theo Padouvas - cornet
Bill Noertker - contrabass
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Detroit native and general wanderer Evelyn Davis is an inside/prepared/new music pianist, improvisor, pipe organist, composer, vocalist, synthesist, teacher, songstress, and maker of /participator in oddly shaped musics with an occasional side of performance art. Most recently this last propensity manifested in joining with Bay Area weirdos Jack o’ the Clock, and longtime indie-pop band Lunchbox, and life tics along, with the constant hum of teaching, song-writing and recording, forever exploring classical music, and improvising with friends.
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Jason Hoopes. Bass. Oakland. Listen to Jack O' The Clock. Fred Frith Trio. Perfect Loss. Eat The Sun. Bass with many others. Education. Teacher and student. Travels. Writes. Poet. Rachtious Palmer is on Tumblr. A man in black.
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Jennifer Wilsey—percussionist, improviser, composer, and educator—is a co-founding member of improvising ensembles Timeless Pulse (with Pauline Oliveros, Thomas Buckner, and George Marsh), The Bloom (with W. Allaudin Mathieu and George Marsh), and Gestaltish (with Rachel Condry, Gretchen Jude, and Jacob Peck). Jennifer’s projects have also included work with The Good Sound Band, Wrestling Worms, The Luna Ensemble, Petr Kotik and the SEM Ensemble, Stuart Dempster, Bernie Krause, and Anna Halprin, among others. Her recordings can be heard on the Deep Listening, Mutable, Cold Mountain Music, Public Eyesore Records, and Pitch-A-Tent labels. She received her BA in Music from UC Santa Cruz and MFA in Performance and Literature with Improvisation Specialization from Mills College (with the Margaret Lyon Prize), and is a Deep Listening Certificate holder. As an educator, Jennifer directs the Musicianship Program at Mills College, teaches percussion, percussion pedagogy, and directs the Percussion and Improvisation Ensemble at Sonoma State University, and teaches in the Deep Listening Online Certificate Training Program at Rensselaer. She offers workshops in Improvisation, Music Games, and Deep Listening, and individual lessons via a creative music studio in Santa Rosa and Oakland, California.
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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 nine CDs, including three CDs of his extended suite Sketches of Catalonia, and three volumes of his extended Blue Rider Suite.
He has also composed music for three films that showcase the intimately-scaled sculptures of David Beck, 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, and scored the Olympia Stone film “Curious Worlds: the Art and Imagination of David Beck” which is currently screening on the festival circuit.
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Annelise Zamula started on flute at age 11 and picked up sax at 14 after falling in love with jazz. She studied classical flute with the late Wallace Mann of the National Symphony while in her teens. After moving to Boston to attend Berklee College of Music, she studied flute with Matt Marvuglio.
Annelise has performed with numerous groups in the Bay Area, including the Riffrats, Moodswing Orchestra, Montclair Women’s Big Band, Connie Champagne and Her Tiny Bubbles, Carwash, The Strayhorns, Golden Gate Park Band, and more.
In 1996 she joined the Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet (BTMSQ) and toured the U.S. and Europe with the group, as well as recording a CD, Sunshine Bundtcake, which was released in March 2000. She has played live radio shows with BTMSQ and the After the End of the World Coretet, both in Europe and at the Bay Area’s own KPFA, KUSF, KALX, and KPOO. With BTMSQ, Ms. Zamula performed with the Indigo Girls on their West Coast tour of 1997, including a performance at the Lilith Fair in Vancouver; at the Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle, and with the Pat Graney Dance Company.
She co-founded the After the End of the World Coretet and composed some of the songs released on the group’s two CDs, Quaternity and 13. Annelise currently performs with Big Lou's Dance Party, Noertker's Moxie, and the Berkeley Saxophone Quartet.
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Theo Padouvas is a trumpet player based in Oakland, California. A native of Queens, New York, Theo received a BA in Music Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music in 2008. Since moving to the Bay Area, Theo has collaborated, performed, and recorded with a wide range of artists including the Oakland Active Orchestra, Naytronix, Kapowski, Ben Goldberg, Aram Shelton, and Michael Coleman. He is a member of the band Religious Phase and has been a featured performer on recordings by Jacob Zimmerman, Arts & Sciences, Naytronix, Sam Ospovat, Bells Atlas, and SNEAL.
Cost: $10-$15 sliding scale