Serving the San Francisco Bay Area New Music Community

Sat, Feb 7 2009 8:00 PM

Jazzschool
2087 Addison Street Berkeley
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Kasey Knudsen Septet
and
Lisa Mezzacappa's Before & After

A yin/yang evening of original music by two of the Bay Area's most
inventive women bandleaders: Mezzacappa's quartet focuses free jazz
energy into concise compositional statements that match groove with
texture; Knudsen's arrangements draw on lush harmony and
rhythmically-driven counterpoint to infuse jazz forms with classical
and pop music sensibilities.

Lisa Mezzacappa's Before and After:
Aaron Bennett, saxophones
John Finkbeiner, guitar
Lisa Mezzacappa, acoustic bass
Vijay Anderson, drums


Kasey Knudsen Septet:
Evan Francis, saxophone/flute
Rob Ewing, trombone
Matt Nelson, saxophone
Kasey Knudsen, saxophone
Michael Coleman, piano
George Ban-Weiss, bass
Jon Arkin, drums

Cost: $10
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.