Aaron Bennett, tenor sax.
Mark Clifford, vibraphone.
Kyle Bruckmann, modular synth.
Brett Carson, keyboard.
Jordan Glenn, drums.
Lisa Mezzacappa, bass.

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$10 for students; kids free.
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Inspired by Italo Calvino’s nerdy, hilarious, lewd, poignant collection of short stories, the Cosmicomics, Lisa Mezzacappa ‘s suite of music takes its cues from Calvino’s stories that humanize and personify far-out and beautiful phenomena that defy human perception—the expansion of the universe, the origins of the planet, the mysterious relationsihp of the earth to its moon, the evolution of humans and creatures.

Mezzacappa’s Cosmicomics was developed over the course of 2018, in a series of work-in-progress salons at the “spectacular Glen Park mainstay,” Bird & Beckett Books & Records, premiered in a pair of performances at Bird & Beckett and the California Jazz Conservatory, and then traveled on to the SFJAZZ Center and Edgfest in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The album that resulted in 2019 was reviewed and praised on NPR and in Downbeat and other jazz publications.

Now she brings in a sextet of long-time collaborators, the Mezzacappa 5(ish) to revisit the raw material from which the suite and the universe was made.

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