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Lisa Mezzacappa

Lisa Mezzacappa is a San Francisco Bay Area-based composer, bassist, bandleader, and producer. Called “one of the most imaginative figures on the Bay Area creative jazz scene” by The Mercury News and “a Bay Area treasure” by KQED public radio, she has been an active part of California’s vibrant music community for more than 18 years. Mezzacappa’s activities as a composer and bandleader include ethereal chamber music, electro-acoustic works, avant-garde jazz, music for groups from duo to large ensemble, and collaborations with film, dance and visual art. Recent projects include avantNOIR, a suite for sextet inspired by noir fiction; Organelle, a chamber suite for improvisers grounded in scientific processes on micro and cosmic scales; Glorious Ravage, an evening-length song cycle for large ensemble and films drawn from the writings of Victorian lady adventurers; and Touch Bass, a collaboration with choreographer Risa Jaroslow for three dancers and three bassists

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Incandescence

Label: Brass Tonic
Released: 2025

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Architecture in Space

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Label: Brass Tonic
Released: 2025
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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Angelini/Niescier/Abdou, Wojciech Jachna, Johnny Dyani & Amalie Dahl

Read "Angelini/Niescier/Abdou, Wojciech Jachna, Johnny Dyani & Amalie Dahl" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


French pianist Bruno Angelini found much inspiration in a quote from his favourite musician Wayne Shorter's graphic novel, “Emanon": “The lotus exists only in the swamp, in our world of turmoil, and the blooming flower purifies the water around it." It led him to make a recording called Lotus Flowers where he and saxophonists Angelika Niescier ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Ches Smith, Ivo Perelman, Leif Berger & Dan Phillips

Read "Ches Smith, Ivo Perelman, Leif Berger & Dan Phillips" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


Music coming from all directions in this edition of One Man's Jazz. Drummer Ches Smith is a true chameleon these days; every album has a different theme or direction or a different band. On his new Clone Row he turns to the twin guitars of Mary Halvorson and Liberty Ellman to stir the pot. Saxophonist Ivo ...

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Myra Melford Splash, Thomas Heberer's Remedy & Ra Bishop

Read "Myra Melford Splash, Thomas Heberer's Remedy & Ra Bishop" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


It's early in the year to be thinking “best-of" albums, but I'm definitely noting these for December: pianist Myra Melford's Splash Trio with bassist Michael Formanek and drummer Ches Smith and Remedy, the trio of Thomas Heberer trumpet, Joe Fonda bass & Joe Hertenstein drums. These are two recordings that present the kind of free expression ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Silke Eberhard & Yannick Peeters

Read "Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Silke Eberhard & Yannick Peeters" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


Time to celebrate the women of today's creative jazz and at the same time recognize International Women's Day. New releases include Bone Bells from the magical duo of pianist Sylvie Courvoisier & guitarist Mary Halvorson, Being A Ning from German saxophonist Silke Eberhard's killin' trio, and Italian bassist Silvia Bolognesi's Jungle Duke which explores the music ...

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Strange Arts

Label: Slow And Steady Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Rain Tune, I Still Remember Clyfford Still, Set for 7: Chorale, Sink/Swim, Set for 7: Ostinato, Set for 7: Nocturne for Solo Violin, Set for 7: Unforeseen (CGBG), Set for 7: Alien Anthropology.

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Paul Auster: The Jazz Music of Chance; Harold Land

Read "Paul Auster: The Jazz Music of Chance; Harold Land" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


New releases and re-releases to remember Harold Land open this episode which then continues with a tribute to Paul Auster, a writer admired by many musicians who wrote music with him, for him, to accompany some of his writings, or inspired by him.Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" ...

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Ian Carey: Strange Arts

Read "Strange Arts" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Wood Metal Plastic is a septet that consists of a jazz quartet (trumpet, alto saxophone, bass, drums) and three-member string section presided over by San Francisco Bay area-based trumpeter Ian Carey, who wrote and arranged the material on his seventh album as leader, Strange Arts. It was recorded as a tribute to Carey's father, the innovative ...


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