Serving the San Francisco Bay Area New Music Community

Fri, Oct 27 2006 8:00 PM

Maybeck Studio
Euclid Ave. in North Berkeley: Please email gm@handprintseries.com to make a reservation and for venue address/directions
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Please join us for an evening of improvised music, in
a beautiful and intimate setting, with four
internationally recognized and acclaimed musicians:
bassists Joelle Leandre and Mark Dresser, pianist Myra
Melford and electronics/computer wizard David Wessel.

PLUS

duo B. (Lisa Mezzacappa, doublebass + Jason Levis,
drums/percussion), performing their usual repertoire
of gnarly original compositions, improvised songs,
textural soundpieces and deconstructed covers, AND
premieres of newly-commissioned works by Bay Area
composers Heather Frasch, Darren Johnston and Jeremy
Hunt, composed especially for the ensemble.

Cost: $15
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.