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Saturday, Jun 22 2013 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts
2133 University Avenue, between Shattuck & Oxford, walking distance from downtown Berkeley BART
Images: The Music of Sun Ra
Dan Clucas - trumpet (LA)
David Boyce - tenor saxophone
Phillip Greenlief - alto saxophone
Karl Evangelista - guitar
Dominique Leone - synthesizer bass
Sam Ospovat - drums
A host of Bay Area experimentalists pay tribute to the man and band from outer space: Sun Ra and his Arkestra of many names. As a space age artist and adventurer, Ra's kaleidoscopic vision encompassed a staggering variety of styles and innovations: doo-wop, Hendersonian big band jazz, exotica, early electronic music, 20th century western art music, post-bop, and free jazz, among many others. Images presents arrangements of music and ideas drawn from the full spectrum of the Arkestra repertoire, placing a special emphasis on Ra's freewheeling take on the jazz vernacular.
Thursday, Jun 27 2013 9:30 PM Duende
468 19th Street | Oakland | CA94612 |
Marco Eneidi's SHATTERED
with Lisa Mezzacappa - double bass and Vijay Anderson - drums
Composer/alto saxophonist Marco Eneidi returns from Vienna for a 2 week residency in the Bay Area and a one night only performance at the premier Oakland performance venue and restaurant, Duende
Marco Eneidi has been living in Vienna since November 2004 where he is Artistic Director of the Neu New York/Vienna Institute of Improvised Music
His current projects include the Mexican Cosmic Brujo Mutafuka Trio; Upcoming concerts with Jamaaladeen Tacuma; Pat Thomas and Black Dot; Paul Lovens; Alberto Braida and numerous concerts in Poland and Hungary.
www.marcoeneidi.com
Saturday, Jul 6 2013 9:30 PM Duende
468 19th Street
Oakland
OLIVER LAKE RESIDENCY
An umprecedented collaborative residency featuring Oliver Lake and some of the best improvisers of the Bay Area.
7/5 - Oliver Lake + Myra Melford - 9:30pm, $15
7/6 - Oliver Lake + Phillip Greenlief + Ross Hammond - 9:30pm, $15
7/7 - Oliver Lake + Roscoe Mitchell, 9pm - $25
7/8 - Oliver Lake + Scott Amendola + Todd Sickafoose - 9pm, $15
Whether composing major commissioned works for the Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra the Brooklyn Philharmonic; creating chamber pieces for the Arditti and Flux String Quartets, the World Sax Quartet, and the San Francisco Contemporary Players; arranging for pop diva Bjork, rocker Lou Reed and rap group A Tribe Called Quest; collaborating with poet Ntozake Shange, choreographers Ron Brown and Marlies Yearby, Native American vocalist Mary Redhouse, Korean kumongo player Jin Hi Kim, Chinese bamboo flute player Shuni Tsou; performing with MacArthur Award recipients Anna Devere Smith (actress/author) and Patricia Williams (writer/law professor/political commentator); sharing the stage with hip-hop artist Mos Def and pop star Me'shell Ndegeocello; or leading his own Organ Quartet, Steel Quartet, Big Band and cooperative ensembles the World Saxophone Quartet and Trio 3; renaissance man Oliver Lake views it all as parts of the same whole.
Lake attributes much of his diverse array of musical styles and disciplines to his experience with the Black Artists Group (BAG), the legendary multi-disciplined and innovative St. Louis collective he co-founded with poets Ajule Rutlin, and musicians Julius Hemphill and Floyd La Flore over 35 years ago. As a co-founder of the internationally acclaimed World Saxophone Quartet with Hemphill, Hamiet Bluiett and David Murray, Oliver continues to work with a variety of groups, and collaborates with several notable choreographers, poets and a veritable Who's Who of the progressive jazz scene of the late 20th century, performing all over the U.S., Europe, Japan, the Middle East, Africa and Australia.
http://www.oliverlake.net/
Sunday, Jul 7 2013 5:00 PM Actual Cafe
6334 San Pablo Ave (@ Alcatraz) Oakland, CA 94608
John Schott (T.J. Kirk, Junk Genius, Tom Waits) is joined by Dan Seamans and John Hanes for a spontaneous romp through his wickedly funky originals, jazz standards, free improvisation, country, blues... well, you get the idea.
Sunday, Jul 7 2013 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts
2133 University Avenue, between Shattuck & Oxford, walking distance from downtown Berkeley BART
An Evening with Orchestra Nostalgico
Catherine Clune - violin
Chris Grady - trumpet
Sheldon Brown - reeds
Phillip Greenlief - reeds
Tom Yoder - trombone
Steve Kirk - guitar
Joshua Raoul Brody - keyboards
Myles Boisen - bass
John Hanes - drums
Orchestra Nostalgico performs music composed for films by iconic film composers like Nino Rota, Bernard Hermann and Ennio Morricone - the group (formerly known as The Clubfoot Orchestra) - in its current lineup and concept - got its start at in the late 90's with an every-Wednesday run that lasted a few years. At that time the band was dedicated to presenting music by Nino Rota for the films of Federico Fellini - but over the course of time, the players in the group have brought fresh arrangements from other composers. This is a rare opportunity to hear this large ensemble work out in an intimate performance setting.
Sunday, Jul 21 2013 3:00 PM Community Music Center
544 Capp Street
SF
 12th Annual Outsound New Music Summit
TThe Bay Area's New Sound Festival for underground and experimental jazz, electronics, noise art, spoken word & more!
Workshop: Communications for Independent Musicians with Lisa Mezzacappa
Bay Area bassist/bandleader and arts organizer Lisa Mezzacappa leads a crash course in communications strategies for independent musicians. Learn how to communicate your work clearly and effectively to the public, to venues and bookers, to the press. We will focus on writing bios, band descriptions and project/concert blurbs. Come prepared with a laptop or pencil and notebook, this will be a hands-on session.
 In a storied career as an academic, journalist and arts administrator, Lisa Mezzacappa has been communicating about the arts, in different formats, for about fifteen years. She was a critic and arts reporter for a daily newspaper in New York before pursing an academic degree in ethnomusicology at UC Berkeley. She subsequently worked as Communications Director at New Langton Arts, and Campus Programs Manager at Stanford Lively Arts. She curates the annual Jazzpop series at the Hammer Museum at UCLA, is on the curatorial committee at the Center for New Music in San Francisco, and has organized many independent music series throughout the years, including the Monday Makeout and Mission Eye & Ear. She's also been involved in strategic planning and communications strategy at Headlands Center for the Arts, and has been part of the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music's Artist Forum.
Saturday, Aug 17 2013 8:00 PM The Crane House
2 blocks from Ashby BART (email jacobmakesnoise@yahoo.com for address/directions)
Reed Quintet featuring visiting musicians Jorrit Dijkstra (Boston/Amsterdam) and Frank Gratkowski (Cologne, Germany), along with locals Jon Raskin, Phillip Greenlief, and Kyle Bruckmann.
Thursday, Sep 26 2013 8:00 PM Luggage Store New Music Series
Outsound co-Presents @ The Luggage Store Gallery
1007 Market St.
SF
Guest Curation by Diane Caudillo
8:00 PM
Eat the Sun
Gretchen Jude - koto
Noah Phillips - guitar
Jason Hoopes - bass
Long-form gently undulating melodic lines weave through meditative sound textures changing slowly like clouds unfurling and expanding on a sunny afternoon during an eclipse. As you listen, body in the grass and eyes in the sky, your spirit takes a transcendental meander through calmly exploding sensation with passages of noise.
listen here - https://soundcloud.com/jason-hoopes/eat-the-sun-live-berkeley-arts
9:00 PM
Fred Frith & Phillip Greenlief duo
Fred Frith - guitar
Phillip Greenlief - saxophone
Frith and Greenlief excel at state-shifting propulsion through sonic landscapes, carrying the listener into territory never known yet instantly desirable. WIth the neurochemistry of surprise, they etch sonic pathways of delight through the branching tributaries of the mind and heart of your expanding consciousness.
You might want to consider arranging for a ride home - this evening of music may leave you in a beautifully altered state.
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