Aaron Bennett, saxophone.
Kyle Bruckman, synthesizer.
Brett Carson, piano.
Mark Clifford, vibes.
Lisa Mezzacappa, bass.
Jordan Glenn, drums.

$25-30 cover charge; byob.
Students, $10.
For a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733.

Bassist, bandleader and composer Lisa Mezzacappa has been assiduously and playfully exploring the concept of worldbuilding in the othrwrldly cycle, a suite of music inspired by her fascination with the speculative fiction of Ursula Le Guin, Haruki Murakami, Samuel R. Delany and David Mitchell— as a way to envision new kinds of musical interaction, storytelling, structure and play.

Lisa is no stranger to big concepts, with projects that have been based on the hardboiled 1940s sensibility of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, the 1970s & ’80s fabulist playfulness of Italo Calvino and many other metamusical nourishments along the way.

She’s always in the company of musicians game to embark and engage on whatever journey she wants to make, and she’s always game to put herself in their hands when they have their own flights to fancy. You’ll be in good hands yourselves when you come out to Bird & Beckett to hear what they have in mind.