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Wed, Nov 5 2025 7:00 PM


Queen Bee Records Micro-Fest #3: DAY ONE

Two nights of freewheeling improvised music and creative jazz from some of the scene's most adventurous and exciting ensembles. Celebrating three new recordings out this fall on Berkeley's Queen Bee Records — the 7th, 8th and 9th! — in a series of 12 releases coming this year.

Wednesday Nov 5
*in collaboration with the West Oakland Sound Series*

oakland reductionist orchestra
monica scott, cello
Danishta Rivero, voice
cody putman, bassoon
Kanoko Nishi-Smith, koto
Lisa Mezzacappa, bass
Joshua Marshall, tenor saxophone
kevin ck lo, violin, flute, piano, objects
Cheryl E. Leonard, natural-object instruments John Ingle, alto saxophone, bari saxophone Matt Ingalls, clarinet, bass clarinet, gardenhose Ron Heglin, trombone, tuba, voice
diane grubbe, flute, bass flute Sarah Grace Graves, voice Jacob Felix Heule, percussion Tom Djll, trumpet
Kevin Corcoran, percussion
chris cooper, guitar, electronics Kyle Bruckmann, oboe, english horn

with special guest sets by
Kristin Miltner (computer)
Roco Córdova (voice, electronics) + Theresa Wong (cello, voice)

Cost: $20
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.
The premiere, at the 2013 Outsound New Music Summit, of Wrack ...Awaits Silent Tristero's Empire (made possible by the Chamber Music America New Jazz Works commissioning program).
Tender Buttons at Second Act, SF, 2016; live video processing by Bill Thibault
Danishta Rivero