Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss

Brazilian Fabianna Cozza voice Vinicius Gomes guitar duo open am Earthwise show at The Mitch, supporting Lisa Mezzacappa trio Friday August 18 $20 at EventBrite or walk up. Meanwhile Tierney Sutton appears Sunday for Palo Alto Jazz Alliance for $40 with piano accompaniment at Community School Mountain View (that a KCSM announcer seemed to call “a tattoo hall “). In the City of Palo Alto series tomorrow night, we have Portuguese with a Russian accent by Masha Campagne, who I hear is very good, at Rinconada Park. I remember meeting Sutton at IAJE in 2004 and that she attended Wellesley and USC, or was that Wesleyan then Berkelee.
Eleven-time Grammy nominee.

TAKEs OUR BREATH AWAY: Patti Cathcart free concert Friday, September 8 6 pm at Mitch Bowl by Earthwise

Other distaff jazz practitioners kerning their A, R, & T’s in their EARTHWISE include Anat Cohen, Beth Custer, Wendy Hickman, Vicki Randle, Jhoely Garay, Jenny Scheinman, Carmen Staaf, Allison Miller, Rabiah Kabir, JoVia Armstrong, Marta Sanchez, Destiny Muhammad, Myra Melford, Roberta Lea and Sylvia Cuenca. Shout out to Jamella Cross of SFMT star of “Breakdown” as Marcia Stone.

duo B. Cine-Concert
featuring Lisa Mezzacappa & Jason Levis
with special guests viDEO sAVant and SPELUNKER

The Bay Area improvising drums and bass duo of Jason Levis and Lisa Mezzacappa joins forces with special guests, Italian saxophonist SPELUNKER and video artist Charlie Woodman (viDEO sAVant) for a set of exploratory improvisation and immersive visuals. Expect shimmery soundscapes, edgy grooves, and surreal layered imagery. The evening features decades of deep musical collaboration – Mezzacappa and Levis have been performing together for more than 20 years, taking deep dives into in the music of Anthony Braxton, Henry Threadgill, Cecil Taylor, Wadada Leo Smith, and others, and releasing three records. They are a first-call rhythm section backing up local jazz heroes such as Phillip Greenlief, Cory Wright, Nathan Clevenger, Sarah Wilson, and others. Special guest from Ferrara, Italy, woodwind player SPELUNKER is one of the leading lights in Italy’s creative jazz community as a composer, bandleader and side person, co-leading the Tower Jazz Composers Orchestra and releasing recordings on the Clean Feed, El Gallo Rojo and Aut record labels. Media artist Charlie Woodman is a pioneer of expanded cinema and real-time video improvisation.