Utilizing technology specifically designed not to spook the target audience (overhead projector), Durst explores the Boomer revolutions, evolutions and still vibrant role in today’s youth obsessed society (which we invented, for crum’s sake). He shamelessly strokes the egos and pats the hands of the Love Generation through segments entitled “Racing From The Shadow Of A Mushroom Cloud,” “The Blinking VCR,” “Still Doing Drugs, Only Now There’s a Co- Pay,” “The Brightsides of Extreme Adulthood” and “Hope I Die Before I… Ooops, Too Late.”
$15-45 sliding scale; $50/$100 Reserved Seating
For tickets, visit www.themarsh.org or call 415-282-3055
3pm to 4pm, The Marsh Berkeley; 2120 Allston Way
Landry / Acrobatas
Landry performs songs from his first album, The Bayou, a musical marriage between American jazz and African soul.
The Acrobatas are a Brazilian trio augmented by a Cuban pianist and an American saxophonist. They take a detour through jazz and funk before diving deep into Brazilian music.
$15
www.jazzschool.org
4:30pm to 6:30pm, 2087 Addison Street
Take the stage and sing the blues with a killer band! Hosted by acclaimed vocalist Pamela Rose, this special Jazzschool jam session is open to all singers. Arrive by 6:30 to sign up and sing. No charts needed, but be prepared to explain the form of your song in a few words (e.g., 12-bar blues in F).
Sliding Scale $5- $10
www.jazzschool.org
7pm to 9pm, Jazzschool 2087 Addison Street
Written & performed by Tayo Aluko. Vukani Mawethu opens. $20.50 advance / $22.50 at door. 644-2020. www.the freight.org
8pm, Freight and Salvage Coffee House, 2020 Addison
8 pm New Music for Saxophone & Hammer Dulcimer
john ingle - saxophones
dan joseph - hammer dulcimer
John Ingle (San Francisco) and Dan Joseph (New York) have collaborated since the late 1990s, developing a unique style of pattern-based improvisation and collaborative composition. With the unusual instrumentation of alto saxophone and hammer dulcimer, their music is built upon fixed modes and simple melodic figures from which they develop and improvise their collaborative works. With a sound combining elements of minimalism, free jazz and Indian raga, they have developed a devoted following in the Bay Area where their collaboration began, and in New York where they have appeared at Roulette, Issue Project Room and the other venues. Their CD trancepatterns with guests India Cooke, violin, and Miya Masaoka, laser-koto, is available from the Deep Listening Catalog and in digital form from Mutable Music.
On the web: http://www.danjoseph.org/trancepatterns.html
9 pm
FPR - CD release party!
frank gratkowski - saxophones, Bb clarinet
phillip greenlief - alto & tenor saxophones
jon raskin - alto & baritone saxophones
FPR celebrates the release of ALL AT ONCE - their new CD release on Relative Pitch Records with an uninterrupted hour-long performance of compositions by the members of the trio.
8pm to 10:30pm, Berkeley Arts - 2133 University Avenue, between Shattuck & Oxford