7:30 PM
Jacob Zimmerman - alto sax and Mike Carreira - drums Duo
8:30 PM Go-Go Fightmaster CD release performance for Sound 1
Aaron Bennett - saxes and straw, John Finkbeiner - guitar and straw,
Lisa Mezzacappa - contrabass, Vijay Anderson - drums
& guest Aram Shelton - sax
Now that the band can drink from the big girls cup, they will perform music from their new CD release "Sound 1" The 100th catalog release on the D.I.W.O. Artist run label
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In May of 2008 Jacob Zimmerman graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston with a Bachelors in Fine Arts in Jazz Saxophone Performance. There he studied primarily with Anthony Coleman, Jerry Bergonzi, Joe Morris, John Mallia, and Allan Chase. He also rehearsed and performed in groups led by guest artists Roscoe Mitchell, Bob Brookmeyer, Jim McNeely, and Dave Holland. Previously, Jacob was a member of the award winning Garfield High School Jazz Band from Seattle, led by Clarence Acox.
Jacob currently lives in the Berkeley, CA pursuing his Masters in Composition from Mills College, where he studies with Roscoe Mitchell, James Fei, and Fred Frith among others.
Drummer Michael Carreira has spent the last several years busy playing pop music. He enjoys spending more time improvising.
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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. (photo by Peter B Kaars)
Aaron Bennett graduated from Cal Arts with a masters degree in Jazz Performance in 1995 at Cal Arts where he studied composition and improvisation with Ismael Wadada Leo Smith. He received his BFA with an emphasis on classical music performance from CSULB in 1993.
He currently plays music in the bay area as an active member of the following bands:
Lisa Mezzacappa’s Bait & Switch, The Weasel Walter Quintet, Adam Lane’s Full Throttle Orchestra, Go-Go Fightmaster, electro-magnetic trans-personal orchestra, the Vijay Anderson Quartet
Lisa Mezzacappa is a double bassist, composer, collaborator and musical instigator. Her music lives in the intersection of improvisation and composition, and her projects often integrate improvisation-infused composition into public spaces and cross-disciplinary works. She studied bass with Michael Formanek and Peter Spaar, studied improvisation with Henry Threadgill, Steve Coleman and John D'earth, and has workshopped with the Sun Ra Arkestra, Bob Moses, Art Baron, Meredith Monk, Terry Riley and David Murray, among others. Lisa has performed at countless Bay Area venues including Intersection for the Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SFMOMA, and the de Young Museum, San Francisco; as well as the Earshot Jazz Festival, Seattle; and the Montreal Jazz Festival; Canada.
Lisa has been artist-in-residence at Djerassi Resident Artists Program (2008), Headlands Center for the Arts (2006), the Banff International Jazz Workshop (2000), and the Painted Bride Arts Center (2000). She holds an MA in ethnomusicology from UC Berkeley (2003), and a BA in music from the University of Virginia (1997). Lisa has been awarded grants from American Composers Forum, the City of Oakland and Meet the Composer. She currently performs in nearly a dozen original jazz, pop and chamber ensembles in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she lives.
Vijay Anderson has had the pleasure of performing/recording with Lynn Johnston, Adam Lane’s Full Throttle Orchestra, Musical Genius, Baculum,
Aaron Bennett’s Go-Go Fightmaster, The Facing East Dance Company, the Adam Lane Trio (featuring Vinny Golia), Josh Allen, Marco Eneidi , the Smith Dobson Jr. Quartet, and the Dystemic Octet. He holds a B.A. in music from San Francisco State University. At SFSU, he studied with Eddie Marshall, Francis Wong, Wayne Wallace and Hafez Modirzadeh. He continues to play in various groups throughout the bay area as well as leading his own group, The Vijay Anderson Quartet.
Aram Shelton is a multi-instrumentalist on saxophones and clarinets, a composer & improviser, and creates electro-acoustic music through computer-based electronics. While the music he makes is spread across a variety of aesthetic lines, it is related by the importance of improvisation to develop material and express musical individuality. He currently lives in Oakland, California.
John Finkbeiner has been plucking, rubbing, grating and vibrating strings since he was but a wee lad growing up in the backwoods of Berkeley, CA. After studying guitar with Myles Boisen, he began sitting for long periods of time alone in a room until a small image of a guitar appeared on his right knee. That was when he knew he was to going to play guitar. He has since played his guitar for god, Adam Lane and many homo-sapiens as well as dogs all over this great land of ours for many, many, many years.
Cost: $10, $8