Serving the San Francisco Bay Area New Music Community

Fri, May 16 2025 8:00 PM

Mt Diablo Unitarian Universalist Church
55 Eckley Lane, Walnut Creek

Brett Carson's Substandard Quartet

Walnut Creek Campus
Bortin Hall.

Incredible music talent—Devil Mountain Coffee House Presents—Brett Carson's Substandard Quartet!
$20 tickets, sold on EventBrite. Sliding scale tickets available at the door.

Brett Carson leads the Substandard Quartet, a group dedicated to the tried and true tradition of the jazz standard, but with a focus on the unconventional and esoteric. Their repertoire eschews the typical "standard" in favor of music from B-movies, video games, stock music, retro commercials, punk rock, contemporary classical music, and avant-garde/free jazz classics, all rendered with virtuosity, quirk, and creative exuberance.

Performers:
Brett Carson - piano
Cory Wright - clarinet
Lisa Mezzacappa - bass
Jason Levis - drums
Audio samples in which musicians at this event play:
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.