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Saturday, April 21st – 7:30-10:00 pm
Alternative Acts at jazz club! when lights are low…
Tonight: animals and giraffes
Phillip Greenlief, Claudia La Rocca, Danishta Rivero, John Shiruba
$20 cover charge tonight; students $5
  

The Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project
and the Jazz Philanthropists Union,
with financial support from the
Zellerbach Family Foundation,
present

Alternative Acts: Seeking Truth Above #F

a series of six concerts beginning April Fools Day
and concluding May 20th

 

April 21st
animals and giraffes
Phillip Greenlief, saxphones and Bb clarinet
Claudia La Rocco, text and voice
Danishta Rivero, voice and electronics
John Shiruba, electric and acoustic guitars and preparations

read more on Phillip Greenlief here: https://www.bayimproviser.com/artist/117/phillip-greenlief

 

The “Alternative Acts” series is devoted to improvised and other avant garde musical approaches by locally based artists:

April Fool’s Day, Ouroboros
Sheldon Brown and Joseph Noble, reeds;
Andrew Joron, theremin; Clark Coolidge, drums

April 18th, Dalachinsky:Cherkovski:Coolidge:Earl
3 poets and 1 pianist

—  April 20th,  Drummer Scott Amendola’s 3-in-1
with Raffi Garabedian, saxophone and Zach Ostroff, bass

April 21st, animals and giraffes
Phillip Greenlief, saxphones and Bb clarinet

Claudia La Rocco, text and voice
Danishta Rivero, voice and electronics
John Shiruba, electric and acoustic guitars and preparations

May 5th, Dark Metals
David Boyce, saxophones/EFX

David Ewell, bass
Cairo McCockran, drums

May 20th, the Kasey Knudsen Quartet
Kasey Knudsen, sax; Lorin Benedict, vocals
Ben Goldberg, clarinet; Miles Wick, bass

 

 

 

Our events are put on under the umbrella of the nonprofit Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project (the "BBCLP"). That's how we fund our ambitious schedule of 300 or so concerts and literary events every year.

The BBCLP is a 501(c)(3) non-profit...
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