Photo: Myles Boisen
Lisa Mezzacappa's Bait & Switch
Brawny and brainy new out jazz from some of the scene's most accomplished and passionate players ... It had been a long time since I had heard anyone follow up on the sophisticated traditions of the seventies' AACM / loft jazz scene with such dedication and focus.- Myles Boisen's "Top 10 of 2008," Transbay Creative Music Calendar
This is my new quartet, in a genre I've started calling "garage jazz" because we are pretty damned unprecious. The idea for this band came from some transcriptions I was doing of '70s-era performances/improvisations by some of my favorite musicians: Ornette Coleman, Henry Threadgill and his band Air, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Don Cherry, Sun Ra, Eric Dolphy. I've been writing new music for this group inspired by those transcriptions. Even though we've been playing together for years now in other contexts, the band continues to blow my mind:
Aaron Bennett, saxophones
John Finkbeiner, electric guitar
Vijay Anderson, drums
LM, acoustic bass
Stay tuned for our debut release, "What is Known," out on Clean Feed Records in June 2010.
Some live recordings from a performance at the Jazzschool, Berkeley, CA in February 2009: