Transbay Calendar/Bayimproviser Event Listing
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Sat 3/20 8:00 PM $5 - $15 Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street between Shattuck and Telegraph Oakland]
This Here Show #11: SPROINGING ALONG!
A meticulously impromptu spectacle of spring
Sat 3/20 8:00 PM $12/10 Flux 53 [5306 Foothill Blvd. at Fairfax Oakland]
Lewis Jordan (saxophone, poetry) with Music at Large, including India Cooke (violin), Karl Evangelista (electric guitar), Eric Marshall (acoustic bass), Sandor Moss (drums)
Sun 3/21 4:00 PM $14-$17 Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 |]
Thomas Schultz plays American Piano Music: Cage, Na, Rzewski
Sun 3/21 4:30 PM $15 Jazzschool [2087 Addison Street Berkeley]
Contemporary original improvised music — from the blues to avant-garde. Featuring Steve Lockwood, piano; Phillip Greenlief, woodwinds; Carla Kaufman, bass; Greg Wyser-Pratte, drums/percussion. LA stalwart Steve Lockwood arrives in the Bay Area for a few gigs with a great local rhythm section and saxophonist Phillip Greenlief
Sun 3/21 7:30 PM $8/10 SIMM Series [Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30 Mutant Trio
8:30 BlenderHead
Mon 3/22 9:00 PM Donations Kingman's Ivy Room [860 San Pablo Ave near Solano Ave Albany]
Daniel Popsicle: playing selections from the Color Music of El Cerrito.
Rob Ewing Sextet: a newly formed group featuring Rob Ewing, trombone; Jacob Zimmerman, alto saxophone; Erik Jekabson - trumpet; Michael Abraham, guitar; Miles Wick, bass; Jon Arkin, drums.
Thu 3/25 7:00 PM $10±5 Velma's Sunday Blues and Jazz Club [2246 Jerrold Ave SF]
Lewis Jordan (saxophone, poetry) with Music at Large, including Karl Evangelista (electric guitar), John-Carlos Perea (electric bass, cedar flute), Marshall Trammell (drums) with Jimmy Biala (percussion) and Genny Lim
Thu 3/25 8:00 PM $6-10 Luggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
Outsound Presents Full Moon Concerts - Storm Moon: Guitars gather and release the storm! Joshua Churchill + Paul Clipson, solo guitar/electronics & Super 8 film; Peter Kolovos (Los Angeles), solo guitar
Fri 3/26 8:00 PM 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
extreme improv // blast beat massage:: Bill Orcutt (solo guitar), Nondor Nevai / Ben Wolcott (oscillator/drums). Peter Kovolos (solo guitar), Ettrick (duo drums/drums/sax/sax/electronics)
Fri 3/26 8:00 PM $5-10 Community Music Center [544 Capp Street Btwn 20th and 21st SF]
A groundbreaking chamber music series presented by the New Spectrum Ensemble. Featuring the dynamic cello-piano duo Kathryn Bates Williams and Sandra Gu in works by Carter, Boulanger, Harrison, and Brahms.
Sat 3/27 2:00 PM Free Cafe Royale [800 Post St. @ Leavenworth SF]
Cafe Royale Presents SF Waldorf High School Jazz Ensemble, Phillip Greenlief, director
The group will perform works by Thelonious Monk, Lee Morgan, David Bowie, Duke Ellington, Herbie Nichols, Augustus Pablo, and others.
Sat 3/27 8:00 PM $55 In The Mood for Food [Private Residence]
Philip Gelb's Dinner Concert Series Presents Phillip Greenlief, saxophone, Kris Tiner, trumpet
Sat 3/27 8:00 PM $6 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
Brutal Sound Effects Festival #67: James Twig Harper (Baltimore); Micose and the Mau Maus; Darwin's Bitch; Mr. Mercury; Wormses (Bobby Adams, Tony Dryer, Jacob Felix Heule); Horaflora; Organ of Qwerty; Coagulator
Sat 3/27 8:00 PM FREE Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street between Shattuck and Telegraph Oakland]
THE UNCOMFORTABLE ZONES OF FUN
experiments in experience/participation performance
Frank Moore, world-known shaman performance artist, will conduct improvised passions of musicians, actors, dancers, and audience members in a laboratory setting to create altered realities of fusion beyond taboos. Bring your passions and musical instruments and your senses of adventure and humor. Other than that, ADMISSION IS FREE! (But donations will be accepted.)
Sun 3/28 2:00 PM $10-40 Dance Mission Theater [3316 24th Street @Mission SF]
The third annual Switchboard Music Festival: an 8-hour, non-stop music spectacle presenting composers and musicians who push the boundaries of their respective genres. No other Bay Area music festival or concert series offers such an eclectic, genre-crossing, convention-breaking, bastardizing group of experimentalists, innovators, and musical omnivores in a single event.
Mon 3/29 8:00 PM $8/10 Red Devil Lounge [1695 Polk Street, San Francisco]
Greg Ginn and The Texas Corrugators, Guella, Barney Cauldron
Tue 3/30 7:30 PM $7 Coda [1710 Mission (@Duboce) San Francisco]
The Reset Quintet
A rare appearance by this collective wind quintet
Thu 4/1 8:00 PM $6-10 Luggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
1st: Mike Crain solo
2nd: Rick Walker Solo
3rd: Crain/Walker duo
Fri 4/2 8:00 PM $10/5 Meridian Gallery [535 Powell Street SF]
Meridian presents an evening of improvisations performed by: Miya Masaoka, koto and electronics; David Wessel, SLABS; and Nils Bultmann, viola.
Fri 4/2 8:00 PM $5-15 Flux 53 [5306 Foothill Blvd. at Fairfax Oakland]
Jacob Zimmerman's Lawson Ensemble
Aram Shelton/Kjell Nordeson Duo
Fri 4/2 8:00 PM Community Music Center [544 Capp Street Btwn 20th and 21st SF]
New Keys; newfangled music for the piano, is a concert series in its 6th year that showcases compositions by young, upcoming composers from across the country. Concert dates are: Friday April 2 and Thursday July 1, 2010 at the San Francisco Community Music Center.
Visit the New Keys website for more information about the upcoming concert: www.newkeysconcert.org
Fri 4/2 8:30 PM $5-$20 Kaleidoscope Free Speech Zone [3109 24th Street @ Folsom, San Francisco, CA]
Members of Varona, Umenden & Radio Free Clear Light. We are joining forces for a séance of electroacoustic improvisation, featuring appearances from special guests… and you are cordially invited!
Sat 4/3 8:00 PM 5-10 Flux 53 [5306 Foothill Blvd. at Fairfax Oakland]
Modal Kombat, League of Art Game Composers, And Visionary Instruments combine forces for a night of video games controlled by guitars, fusion of other electronic games and art, as well as amazing hand crafted video guitars. The call is out for all techies, musicians, gamers, and inventors alike.
Sat 4/3 8:00 PM $10 - $15 (No One Turned Away for Lack of Funds) 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
Pacific Exchange 2010 featuring ADACHI Tomomi along with Laetitia Sonami, Judy Halebsky, Dylan Bolles, Suki O'Kane, and Edward Schocker.
Mon 4/5 8:30 PM No Cover! The Makeout Room [22nd Street between Mission and Valencia San Francisco]
LOST PLANET (Slusser/Weinstein/Patterson/Clarke) (8:30pm)
ROVA Saxophone Quartet (9:30pm)
PAST PRESENT FUTURE (Boisen/Seth Ford-Young/John Hanes) (10:30pm)
Tue 4/6 7:30 PM Donation Tuesdays at Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
Doctor Bob (Bob Marsh and David Michalak, and John Gruntfest & Greg Goodman
Thu 4/8 8:00 PM $6-10 Luggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
SoundSpeak a series presenting pairings of sound and voice artists
8pm Spoet Polly Moller w/Moe! Staiano
9pm Poet Robert Anbian w/Rent Romus saxes/accordian/objects
Thu 4/8 9:00 PM $5 Amnesia [853 Valencia St San Francisco]
SFJAZZ Hotplate Presents Scott Amendola plays Ornette Coleman, Ben Goldberg-Clarinet, Trevor Dunn-electric bass, Scott Amendola-Drums. Doors 8pm with DJ Vinnie Esparza, 9:00pm Show.
Fri 4/9 8:30 PM $5-10 NOTA THE MILK BAR at The Biscuit Factory [81st and San Leandro Oakland]
The first MilkBar salon for 2010 features new music, performance and film work.
Sun 4/11 7:30 PM $10/8 SIMM Series [Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF]
Noertker's Moxie selections from Blue Rider vol. 1, 2, 3: Suites for Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc. Annelise Zamula - tenor saxophone, flute Amber Lamprecht - oboe, flute Jenny Maybee - piano Bill Noertker - bass Dave Mihaly - drums
Thu 4/15 8:00 PM $6-10 Luggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
8pm Daryl Shawn
9pm Ross Hammond Duo
Fri 4/16 8:00 PM $10/5 CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
Zen Widow - Sicilian Saxophone Colossus - Gianni Gebbia makes his return to the SF Bay area for an evening with all new compositions with Matthew Goodheart (Grand Piano) and Garth Powell (drums and percussion). Special Guest David Wessel (electronics in 360 degree surround)
Fri 4/16 8:30 PM $10.00 The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
G*PARK, JOSHUA CHURCHILL, & ADAM SONDERBERG
23five Incorporated, in collaboration with Swissnex and The Lab, present the thirteenth annual Activating The Medium centered upon a theme of ice, with works by G*Park, Joshua Churchill, Adam Sonderberg, and a lecture from Cheryl Leonard.
Sat 4/17 8:30 PM $10.00 The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
CHERYL LEONARD, PEDESTRIAN DEPOSIT, JESSE BURSON, and RALE
23five Incorporated, in collaboration with The Lab, present the thirteenth annual Activating The Medium centered upon a theme of ice, with works by Cheryl Leonard, Pedestrian Deposit, Jesse Burson, and Rale
Sun 4/18 3:00 PM $10/5 Meridian Gallery [535 Powell Street SF]
resonant world: an afternoon of music by John Cage for the exhibit The Visionary Art of Morris Graves (on view at Meridian Gallery March 20 - May 15). Featuring Atlas Eclipticalis (1962) performed by Phillip Greenlief and Jon Raskin's 2+1, featuring Steve Adams, Three (1989) performed by Three Trapped Tigers (David Barnett, Tom Bickley, and Jim Wilson), and Solos from Song Books (1970) performed by the Cornelius Cardew Choir. Plus a reading of Series re Morris Graves by John Cage (1973) in the second floor Drawings Gallery.
Sun 4/18 7:30 PM $8/10 SIMM Series [Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30PM Zen Widow
Gianni Gebbia - saxophone (IT) Garth Powell -drums
Matthew Goodheart - piano
8:30 "Round Robin with Gianni Gebbia" featuring a cast of characters from the community:
Tara Flandreau, Tim Perkis, John Shiurba, Damon Smith, Rent Romus, Bill Noertker, CJ Borosque, Jake Rodriguez
Sun 4/18 9:00 PM $5 Terminal [3957 San Leandro Street Oakland, CA]
Pedestrian Deposit (LA)
Rale (LA)
Brandon Nickell (SF)
Eighth Evening (SF)
Mon 4/19 9:00 PM FREE Ivy Room [858 San Pablo Ave, Albany]
Ivy Room Improv/Experimental Hootenanny & Social Club featuring
Flormadecking, John Hanes/Steve Adams, Ross Hammond, Lucio Menegon's Sonic Demons (with special guests), video by Will Erokan
comfy couches • delicious beverages • NEVER a cover • many musicians • total surprises • third mondays
Thu 4/22 8:00 PM $6-10 Luggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
8:00 Noah Phillips & Jason Hoopes Duo
8:45 Lucio Menegon's Sonic Demons (CD release set)
9:15 LawsonJacob Zimmerman, Drew Cecatto, Matt Nelson, Cory Wright (saxes), Michael Coleman and Dan VanHassel (keyboards), Dan Good (electronics and trumpet)
Fri 4/23 8:00 PM $10-15 CounterPULSE [1310 Mission (at 9th St) San Francisco ]
"Diaspora Tales #2: 1969" An interdisciplinary work featuring music by the Francis Wong Unit, spoken word by A.K. Black, dance by Lenora Lee and media design by Olivia Ting.
Sat 4/24 8:00 PM $10-15 CounterPULSE [1310 Mission (at 9th) San Francisco ]
"Diaspora Tales #2: 1969" An interdisciplinary work featuring music by the Francis Wong Unit, spoken word by A.K. Black, dance by Lenora Lee and media design by Olivia Ting.
Sat 4/24 9:00 PM First Church of the Buzzard [2601 Adeline (enter on 26th St.) Oakland]
Jooklo Duo (Italy); Cotton Museum (Michigan); Murder Murder; Omnivorous Scencillium; Basshaters (Tony Dryer + Jacob Felix Heule); DJ Loachfillet
Sun 4/25 12:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Godwaffle Noise Pancakes
Jooklo Duo (Italy); Wormses (Bobby Adams, Tony Dryers, Jacob Felix Heule);+tba
Sun 4/25 4:30 PM $10-28 ODC Dance Commons [351 Shotwell St., SF]
Philippe Hurel joins SFCMP to discuss what he calls his most thematic piece.
Sun 4/25 7:00 PM $30-70 Palace of Fine Arts Theatre [3301 Lyon Street SF]
SFJAZZ: Charles Lloyd New Quartet with Jason Moran, Reuben Rogers & Eric Harland.
Mon 4/26 8:00 PM $10-28 Herbst Theatre [401 Van Ness Ave., SF]
The San Francisco Contemporary Music Players present "His Own Space of Freedom" Music by Philippe Hurel, Tan Dun, Manolis Manousakis and Guo Wenjing.
Thu 4/29 8:00 PM $6-10 Luggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
Outsound Presents Full Moon Concerts - Wind Moon: All about the wind, and its moonlit travels through tubes.
8:00 PM: Ghost in the House
9:00 PM: Sabbaticus Rex
Fri 4/30 8:00 PM $10/5 Meridian Gallery [535 Powell Street SF]
Meridian Gallery presents Fred Frith (guitar) & Theresa Wong (voice, cello). Improvisations conjured by Fred Frith; roaming drunken shaman expelling high-end drugstore vibrations on a mystical pocket fm radio and guitar holding court with Theresa Wong; cave dwelling amateur magician and high priestess of the vocal disorder, channeling anything, everything and sometimes nothing through spirited sonic outbreaks.
Sun 5/2 7:30 PM $10/8 SIMM Series [Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30pm Emergency String Ensemble w/Rent Romus recording his string album live
8:30pm Noertker's Moxie Chamber Ensemble performs Blue Rider improvisations ( Annelise Zamula - flute, Amber Lamprecht - oboe, TBA - violin, Bill Noertker - contrabass)
Sun 5/2 8:00 PM $10 Flux 53 [5306 Foothill Blvd. at Fairfax Oakland]
THE DECONSTRUCTION ORCHESTRA
Josh Allen's ensemble burns the whole place down
Tue 5/4 7:30 PM donation Tuesdays at Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
Karen Stackpole, Tom Djll and Ron Heglin
Thu 5/6 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th Street (@ Capp), San Francisco]
* Aesop Dekker (Agalloch/Ludicra) and Sean McGrath (Impaled)
play with Bran (...) Pos, Rubber (() Cement * Elf Ass (Ettrick + Tralphaz fairycore) * Coagulator
Thu 5/6 8:00 PM $6-10 Luggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
8pm Alexander Vogel Philip Greenlief and Aaron Bennett trio
9pm Tatsuya Nakatani is a contemporary percussionist, originally from Osaka, Japan. He performs creative music around the world. He has created a totally unique sound which defies category or genre. He utilizes the drum set, bowed gongs, cymbals, singing bowls and metal objects...
Sun 5/9 2:00 PM free Admission Cafe Royale [800 Post St. @ Leavenworth SF]
Bird and Beckett Books Presents The Lost Trio, featuring Phillip Greenlief - tenor saxophone; Dan Seamans - bass; Tom Hassett - drums
Sun 5/9 8:00 PM $10 Flux 53 [5306 Foothill Blvd. at Fairfax Oakland]
THE DECONSTRUCTION ORCHESTRA
Josh Allen's ensemble burns the whole place down
Wed 5/12 7:30 PM $10/5 Meridian Gallery [535 Powell Street SF]
Meridian Music presents "New Directions in Indian Classical Music," featuring four new works in an ensemble of Voice (Gautam Tejas Ganeshan) + Mridangam Barrel Drum (Anantha R. Krishnan) + Tanpura Drone Lutes (Deepa Preeti Natarajan).
Thu 5/13 8:00 PM $6-10 Luggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
8pm Holiday Heart (Ellery Royston and Alexandra Buchanan)
9pm bLakcPullet Grimoire w/ video projection performing a release set for his newest CD, "Eating whole villages he threw up from the bitter taste of concrete"
Sat 5/15 8:00 PM $25 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts [701 Mission St @3rd SF]
11th Annual SFJAZZ Spring Season Presents Sexmob with DJ Olive Play Sexotica. Started by slide trumpeter and Berkeley native Steven Bernstein, the band weaves a throbbing, highly danceable tapestry of bop, Dixieland jazz, luscious lounge and funk.
Sun 5/16 7:30 PM $6-10 SIMM Series [Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30pm TBA
8:30pm titter:
Tony Dryer, Jacob Felix Heule, Aurora Josephson, Kanoko Nishi
Sun 5/16 8:00 PM $10 Flux 53 [5306 Foothill Blvd. at Fairfax Oakland]
THE DECONSTRUCTION ORCHESTRA
Josh Allen's ensemble burns the whole place down
Mon 5/17 9:00 PM FREE Ivy Room [858 San Pablo Ave, Albany]
Experimental Hootenanny & Social Club featuring Citta di Vitti, Dottie Grossman/Michael Vlatkovich, Z Bug, Strangelet, Stalones Holy Rollers
comfy couches • delicious beverages • NEVER a cover • many musicians • total surprises • third mondays
Thu 5/20 8:00 PM $6-10 Luggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
8:00pm CJ Borosque- electronics/trumpet w/ Travis Johns - inventions, Arachnid Arcade - electronics
9:00pm Hecanjog / Hey Exit duet
Sun 5/23 8:00 PM $10 Flux 53 [5306 Foothill Blvd. at Fairfax Oakland]
THE DECONSTRUCTION ORCHESTRA
Josh Allen's ensemble burns the whole place down
Thu 5/27 8:00 PM $6-10 Luggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
Outsound Presents Full Moon Concerts - Flower Moon
Thu 6/3 8:00 PM $6-10 Luggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
8-10 Matthew Sperry Memorial Festival
Sat 6/5 8:00 PM $25 Swedish American Hall [2174 Market St San Francisco]
11th Annual SFJAZZ Spring Season Presents Donny McCaslin Trio
Sun 6/6 7:30 PM $10/8 SIMM Series [Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF]
Tenor Gladness: David Boyce - tenor saxophone; Ralph Carney - tenor saxophone; Tracy McMullen - tenor saxophone; Annelise Zamula - tenor saxophone;
Bill Noertker - contrabass; Dave Mihaly - drums
Thu 6/10 8:00 PM $6-10 Luggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
Outsound Presents:
8pm Mokele Mbembe; 8:40pm Z_Bug; 9:30pm Kwisp