Serving the San Francisco Bay Area New Music Community

Sat, Nov 3 2018 7:30 PM


Bassist, composer and bandleader Lisa Mezzacappa premieres a new suite of music for jazz sextet, inspired by Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics stories on the origins of the universe, and the invisible forces at work in the cosmos.
Lisa Mezzacappa Six features:
Aaron Bennett, tenor sax
John Finkbeiner, guitar
Mark Clifford, vibraphone
Tim Perkis, electronics
Jordan Glenn, drums

The music will be premiered in two concerts: on Friday, November 2 at the CA Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley; and on Saturday, November 3 at Bird & Beckett Books in San Francisco.

Cost: $20
Audio samples in which musicians at this event play:
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
Lisa Mezzacappa's Bait & Switch - Live
Lisa Mezzacappa & Nightshade - Live
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.
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.