Bird & Beckett Books and Records
653 Chenery St. SF
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Lisa Mezzacappa 5(ish):
Aaron Bennett, tenor saxophone
Mark Clifford, vibraphone
Brett Carson, keyboard
Lisa Mezzacappa, acoustic bass
Jordan Glenn, drums

Berkeley bassist and composer Lisa Mezzacappa launches a yearlong residency at Bird & Beckett, to revisit and refresh older repertoire and compose a new set of music for the the latest incarnation of her stellar improvising ensemble. Mezzacappa's previous works for this group have drawn inspiration from Dashiell Hammett and Paul Auster's lean noir crime novels and Italo Calvino's hilarious and poignant Cosmicomics stories. Now she's exploring the concept of worldbuilding—inspired by teenage Dungeons & Dragons sessions with her metalhead friends, and her fascination with the speculative fiction of Ursula Le Guin, Haruki Murakami and David Mitchell— as a way to envision new kinds of musical interaction, storytelling, structure and play. At the bookstore, she enjoys reading excerpts from the texts that have inspired her, and in these sessions will talk about her compositional process as part of sharing her dynamic musical work. Future dates in the series will include July 18 and September 19

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