Luggage Store Creative Music Series @509 Cultural Center
509 Ellis Street, SF
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8pm Berkeley Arts Lab Band
Donald Robinson, Collette McCaslin, Ron Heglin, Rent Romus
9pm Matthew Dotson

The Berkeley Arts Lab Band is a collection of musicians who regularly play with Donald on Tuesday Night open sessions.
Described as a 'percussive dervish' (Coda) Donald Robinson is a technical master of the drums. He is a stalwart of the of San Francisco bay area avant-garde jazz scene, playing and recording with many of the area's improvisational players, from saxophonists John Tchicai, Marco Eneidi and Larry Ochs to koto player Miya Masaoka and pianist Matthew Goodheart, and with prominent visitors like Cecil Taylor, Wadada Leo Smith, George Lewis, trumpeter Raphe Malik and Canadian pianist Paul Plimley. Much of this work has featured the combination of Robinson and bassist Lisle Ellis as rhythm section: 'the best bass-drums tag team on the scene' (Jazz Times). His longest musical association, dating from the 1970's, was with the late tenor saxophonist Glenn Spearman.

Matthew Dotson is a Los Angeles-based composer and performer of hybrid forms of electronic dance music. Having studied music composition academically at the Doctoral level, classical concepts of form and harmonic development as well as an ultra-modernist approach to rhythm and stasis inform all of Matthew's work.
"Matthew Dotson brings to mind my enthusiasm for the eclectic works of Jim O'Rourke. Not the melodic guitar/pop, but the found sound, noise, esoterica collage experimental stuff." - Jeff Daily


Cost: $6-15 sliding

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