String Trio: Marielle Jakobsons, Agnes Szelag, Helena Espvall (Espers)
Special Guest
Lisa Mezzacappa's Bait & Switch
Bait & Switch is San Francisco bassist
Lisa Mezzacappa's rollicking
garage jazz quartet, playing original music inspired by adventurous
jazz masters like Ornette Coleman, Henry Threadgill, the Art Ensemble
of Chicago and Eric Dolphy. The music funnels free jazz energy and
collectivity into finely honed minimalist compositions that exploit
the group's amazing chemistry and fierce sense of groove.
Aaron Bennett, saxophones
John Finkbeiner, guitar
Lisa Mezzacappa, bass
Vijay Anderson, drums
Cost: free, donations solicited
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.