Alto saxophonist and composer
Marco Eneidi is artistic director of the Neu New York/Vienna Institute of Improvised Music (http://www.nenuvi.org/) and "one of contemporary creative music's unsung heroes" (http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=19665). Tonight he returns to his East Bay roots, accompanied by local bass maven Damon Smith.
http://www.myspace.com/marcoeneidi
http://www.myspace.com/smithdamon
For the second set,
Aaron Bennett (saxophone), John Finkbeiner (guitar), Vijay Anderson (drums),
Lisa Mezzacappa (contrabass), and Aram Shelton (saxophone) form the particle accelerator that is
Go-Go Fightmaster.
http://www.myspace.com/gogofightmaster
Cost: $10ish
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
avantNOIR, a suite of compositions for jazz quartet plus guests, is a musical companion to the crime novels of Dashiell Hammett and Paul Auster. All music by Lisa Mezzacappa.