Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series
1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF
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8pm Pietro Lusvardi - solo double bass
An accomplished soloist and composer,Pietro Lusvardi offers a wide variety of original music and time-tested classics, with pieces ranging from the famed Come Sunday of Duke Ellington to Animali Rari Suite,a grotesque description of rare animals. Lusvardi's music ranges from serenely beautiful concertos to rhythmic jazz improvisations, and is always an interesting treat for the ears. His world renowned ensemble, Gatto Marte, has produced four CDs, and won the national competition at the European Love Festival Arezzo Wave in July 2000. Lusvardi has played in Europe and in the USA.Thursday, January 22th 2004 to the Luggage Store Gallery will be an excellent opportunity to become better acquainted with a bassist who is a welcomed performer throughout the Bay Area.


9pm Jack Wright/Bob Marsh Duo CD Release performance - reeds/cello
Jack Wright from Boulder Colorado and now moved to Pennsylvania, Jack Wright is one of the more outrageous saxophonists and musical personalities of the continent. Continuously on tour, or organizing the next one, he has been called the Johnny Appleseed of free improvisation. To others, he is the scorned perpetrator of the "school of screech," even though at times he is practically inaudible. He plays, or squeezes sound, out of alto, tenor, and soprano saxes; he also plays piano, and now pretends to play the unwieldy contralto clarinet. For over twenty years he has been doing this kind of music exclusively, and yet his audience can usually still be counted on a couple of hands. Which is either a credit to his "refusal to compromise" or an indication that he is a fool. After all, he still considers himself as much a beginner as when he started playing the saxophone, back in the dark ages of the early fifties. He plays with everyone who asks, and currently visits and explores sound with over sixty partners around the country, and a few in Europe. He records, yes, but the place where he learns what music can do is mainly in live performance. For him, "free music" is a verb, not a noun.


Bob Marsh originally hails from Detroit MI where he honed his skills as an avid artist. He’s founded dance companies, art galleries, invented public instruments, exhibited as a painter, teacher, multi-instrumentalist, and art therapist, and built award-winning guitars. When ribbed jokingly by a colleague “what instruments do you not play”? He responded dryly, “what I don’t have”. He currently performs regularly on violin, cello, piano, vibraphone, flute, and extended vocal techniques, just to name a few. He is the leader of the Emergency String Quartet, the Robot Martians, the Illuminated Orchestra, Opera viva; co-leader of Lucha de Leche with Ernesto Diaz-Infante and member of Aaron Bennett's Nonet, Jim Ryan's Left Coast Improv Group, and The Abstractions. Current musical projects include : Gene Coleman's "Ensemble Noamnesia", Fred Lomberg-Holm's "Phenomenal String Quartet", Marc Perlish's "Stray Quartet", duo with Blaise Siwula in "(a+b) squared", founder/director "Quintessentials, the Che Guevara Memorial Marching (and stationary) accordion Band. He has performed and recording with a myriad of artists across the United States including such luminaries as: Jim Baker, John Berndt, Carrie Biolo-Thompson, Jeb Bishop, Kyle Bruckmann, Gene Coleman, Ernesto Diaz-Infante, R. Albert Falesch, Rent Romus, Carol Genetti, Greg Hamilton, Kurt Johnson, Adam Lane, Eric Leonardson, Fred Longberg-Holm, Toshi Makihara, Tatsuya Nakatani, Bhob Rainey, Hal Rammell, Scott Rosenberg, Blaise Siwula, Damon Smith, Adam Sonderberg, Ken Vandermark, Matt Weston, Sue Wolf, Jack Wright, and Michael Zerang.

"Wright and Marsh have a long history of playing together...Wright and Marsh share a well-developed sense of musical communication, and there's a degree to which the music sounds almost like a conversation, with a comment and response dialogue discernable in some of their playing. Even when the two play at once and go in seemingly different directions, there's a strong sense of unity in the music, and very little that seems awkward or errant. Working together since 1986 seems to have resulted in a rich collaborative relationship together."
- Adam Strohm fakejazz.com

Cost: $6-10

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