jimzeen productions presents • Monday, August 10, 2009 at Kingman’s Ivy Room, Solano&San Pablo, Albany, CA, 9pm . . . NO COVER = FREE . . . BUT BUY DRINKS!
Three Sets 1) Go-Go Fightmaster (4tet), 2) Ava, Devin, & Weasel(Ava's Thrash Jazz Band),
3) The
Spirit Moves Us (Trio)
Go-Go Fightmaster is a band:
Aaron Bennett saxes&straw, John Finkbinder guitar&straw,
Lisa Mezzacappa contrabass, Vijay Anderson drums. Go-Go Fightmaster is music that seeks only to be music and relevant in this era of violent expansionism and blatant disregard for the declining state of the planet. Go-Go Fightmaster does not seek to be the most modern, historical, punk/jazz/disco/dark/light/cool/whatever shocking, comforting,
Spiritual, secular, or avant garde. Go-Go Fightmaster are lovers, not fighters and we do not engage in the form of dancing known as "Go-Go". Go-Go Fightmaster does not like cheese (except on crackers). Go-Go Fightmaster is the ideal band for your corporate event. Go-Go Fightmaster loves you.
Ava Mendoza plays guitar, Devin Hoff plays upright bass, Weasel Walter plays drums.
***Ava’s main band is 'Mute Socialite'. She is also a composer, and electronic musician living in Oakland, CA. She plays improvised music, weird rock, and original compositions. Improvised music was the first area of music in which she became vitally interested as a classically-trained teenager. ***Devin Hoff Contrabassist and composer, has played thousands of shows around the world, everything from punk clubs to major jazz festivals, left-wing benefits to barn dances, and has appeared on dozens of records, radio and television programs. He is currently a member of:
Good For Cows, Redressers, Odessa Chen, Nels Cline Singers, 7 Year Rabbit Cycle, Red Rosa, John Schott’s Typical Orchestra, and the Ben Goldberg School; and has recorded and/or wroked regularly with: Carla Kihlstedt, Vijay Iyer, Xiu Xiu, Jewlia Eisenberg, Scott Amendola, Carla Bozulich, Howard Wiley, Graham Connah, Bill Stewart, Arnoldo Garcia, Hugh Ragin, and many more.
***Weasel Walter descended on the Planet somewhere in the Midwest (aka The Heartland) sometime in 1972 and has always been very weird . . . only the drums and the Flying Luttenbachers saved him from eternal incarceration in middle America. He now lives in Oakland, CA but goes to other places too, to play with other famous weirdos.
The
Spirit Moves Us is a trio of veteran improvisers flowing to the East Bay from the midwest (Detroit, Chicago, Indianapolis, & St. Paul, MN) through r&b, jazz, and avant experimental groups. Eastbania (San Francisco’s East Bay Area) has been home to them for many years now, and they have worked together frequently in various configurations.
Spirit on percussion is considered by local and national aficionados as an original master of the free form jazz genre. Bob Marsh has brought the cello to an awesome freshness and versatility, and
Jim Ryan on flute, saxophones, kalimba, & spoken word has performed regularly throughout the country and locally with his Forward Energy bands. For CDs by these players, go to www.edgetonerecords.com
http://www.myspace.com/gogofightmaster
http://www.myspace.com/karenstackpole
http://www.myspace.com/avamendoza
http://devinhoffplatform.com/
www.myspace.com/weaselwalter
http://www.myspace.com/the
Spiritmovesus
Cost: Free