The William Beatty Swing Trio opens. $18.50 advance / $20.50 at door. 644-2020. www.thefreight.org
8pm, Freight and Salvage Coffee House, 2020 Addison
8 pm
TRIO w/Crystal Pascucci- cello, Jon Raskin- saxophone, Vladimir Tarasov -drums
Maestro Vladimir Tarasov was born in Archangelsk, Russia. Since 1968 he has lived and worked in Vilnius, Lithuania. For many years Tarasov performed with the Lithuanian Symphonic Orchestra and other symphonic, chamber, and jazz orchestras in Lithuania, Europe and the USA. From 1971 to 1986, Tarasov was a member of the well-known contemporary jazz music trio - GTC (Viatcheslav Ganelin, Vladimir Tarasov, Vladimir Chekasin). He has recorded more than 100 records and CDs including numerous solo performances. Vladimir has also worked in the visuals arts both solo and collaborating with artists such as Ilya Kabakov, Sarah Flohr and others. His work has been presented at teh La Biennale de Venezia, Centre George Pompidou, Kunsthalle, Dusseldorg and the Biennale of Contemporary Art in Moscow. In 2009, Tarasov received the Triumph Prize in Moscow: Russia's independent prize for the highest achievements in literature and art.
http://www.vladimirtarasov.com/
Crystal Pascucci
Crystal Pascucci is a cellist, composer and improviser and began and she began playing at age nine. Crystal's approach to improvisation and composition deploys delicate communication, drawing clear phrase lines and to find ways to utilize orchestration concepts. There is no one traditional tone or sound as an aim - there is only musical intention presented on a large palette through an unconventional lens. An active performer in the Bay Area, she has recently performed the work of Roscoe Mitchell at Yoshi's in Oakland, as a featured solo performer at both the NextNow Music Series and the Light A Fire Music Series, at the SIMM Series (duo with Eric Glick Rieman), the graphic-score work of Christina Stanley at the 11th Annual Outsound Summit New Music Festival, and at the 11th Annual Transbay Skronathon with Matt Davignon. Crystal is a Co-founding member of the Oakland Composer's Union and performing with renowned clarinetist, Rachel Condry, in the improv duo, Chocolate for Breakfast.
http://www.crystalpascucci.com/
Jon Raskin
A composer, saxophonist, electronics and improviser is a founding member of the Rova Quartet. Other activities include Open Box with the Poet Carla Harryman, the 2 + 2 Series with Phillip Greenlief, the FPR Trio with Phillip Greenlief and Frank Gratkowski, The Long Table - John Shiurba, Dan Semans, John Hanes, Phillip Greenlief.
www.jonraskin.com
www.rova.org
9 pm
The Attack Chamber Ensemble
In the second set of the evening the trio of Tarasov, Pascucci and Raskin will be joined by Rachel Condry-Clarinet, Tim Djll- Trumpet, Tara Flandreau- Violin/ Viola and Doug Stuart- bass to form the "Attack Chamber Ensemble" inspired by Vladimir's seminal solo recordings called "ATTO". ".....It's about feeling, motion, color, and the depth of false perceptions that were being laid bare, opening the door to possibility."
Rachel Condry
Rachel plays clarinet(s), composes and teaches music for a living and her work advocates for small sounds, lost or forgotten in the noisy drones of the modern soundscape.
http://www.rachelcondry.com/Home.html
Tom Djll
"An acknowledged innovator in the use of extended split-tone techniques and multiphonics on trumpet, Djll comes across on stage as something of a trickster, a canny manipulator of sounds-you-never-expected-to-hear-on-a-trumpet, a magician who uses valves and breath rather than smoke and mirrors." - JazzCorner.com
http://tomdjll.com/
Tara Flandreau
Tara Flandreau is a violinist, violist, composer/improviser, conductor and visual artist. In addition to her many classical music performances, Tara has performed and recorded with many great improvisers, including Peter Kowald, Gianni Gebbia, Joelle LEandre Saadet Turkoz, Marco Eneidi, Glenn SPearman, Eugene Chadbourne, Butch Morris, Wadada Leo Smith, Bert Turetzky and the Rova Saxophone Quartet
http://www.taraflandreau.com/
Doug Stuart
Doug Stuart plays double bass and moved from Michigan to Berkeley. He keeps busy playing with with the likes of Kasey Knudsen, Karl Evangelista, Aram Shelton, Bell Atlas, Sonny Sharrok Experience and Oakland Active Orchestra.
8pm to 9pm, 2133 University
$12. Grateful Dead Night. 525-5054. www.ashkenaz.com
8pm, Ashkenaz, 1317 San Pablo
Bring a blanket to the BAM/PFA sculpture garden for a free outdoor screening of "The Troublemaker", a finger-snappin’ exposé of a bumpkin opening a coffeehouse in Greenwich Village, preceded by a special beat poetry reading by Adam Sussman and other surprises.
Theodore J. Flicker (U.S., 1964). Free Outdoor Screening. Poetry reading by Adam Sussman. Kick off the fall semester in some troublemaking style with this retro beat "classic," involving a finger-snapping beatnik, some Greenwich Village mobsters, and a handful of nubile, too-cool-for-school beauties. Written by Buck Henry of The Graduate.(80 mins)
8:30pm to 10pm, 2625 Durant Avenue