Tom's Place
3111 Deakin Street Berkeley
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On Wednesday, December 11 at 7:30pm, Tom's Place presents

Perkis/Heglin/Louchard
(electronics, voice, piano)
and
duo B
(Lisa Mezzacappa, bass & Jason Levis, percussion)

Wednesday night, it's an evening of favorites (and one new friend) at Tom's Place, as we host the Perkis/Heglin/Louchard trio and duo B.
In the Perkis, Heglin, Louchard Trio, Tim Perkis, electronics, and Ron Heglin, voice, have been working in the Bay Area improvisational music scene for decades. Ric Louchard, piano, has been composing, a performing pianist and improvising most of his life, but, until recently, improvisation has been a solitary, mostly private pursuit. The three found an immediate ease in working together in free improvisation. They share concerns about making music that speaks in a direct emotive voice, making strong, interesting compositional forms, and enjoying the shifting impulses to support, compliment, echo and contrast each other in the work.
duo B., the San Francisco Bay Area improvising and composing ensemble of percussionist Jason Levis and bassist Lisa Mezzacappa, is a musical think tank of grand schemes and impossible scenarios. For more than ten years, the ensemble has developed and refined its singular approach to improvisation and composition, through cross-disciplinary projects with film, collaborations with improvising instrumentalists at home and abroad, study of repertoire by like-minded composer-improvisers, and immersion in the improvised-composed musical worlds of masters Wadada Leo Smith, Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor, Henry Threadgill, and others.

Tom's Place
3111 Deakin Street, Berkeley CA
Directions: http://4-33.com/directions.html
Information: http://4-33.com/toms-place/index.html

Admission: donation. All proceeds go directly to the musicians.
Doors open at 7:00. Wheelchair accessible.

Cost: free -- donations accepted.

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