Serving the San Francisco Bay Area New Music Community

Wed, Oct 7 2009 12:00 PM

SFJazz Summerfest, Levi's Plaza
1160 Battery Street (at the corner of Union Street) SF

Bait & Switch is San Francisco bassist 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, tenor saxophone
John Finkbeiner, electric guitar
Vijay Anderson, drums
Lisa Mezzacappa, acoustic bass

Cost: FREE
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.