february 24, 2013
sundays @berkeley arts
two sets, starting at 8 pm
Angelica Sanchez - Phillip Greenlief - Sam Ospovat trio
Angelica Sanchez - piano (NYC)
Phillip Greenlief - tenor saxophone
Sam Ospovat - drums
Pianist Angelica Sanchez is coming to the west coast for a west-coast tour with Phillip Greenlief and Sam Ospovat - two frequent collaborators. The trio plays improvised music, but not the free-wheeling sounds you would expect from the purveyors of classic free jazz, but rather music that is improvised with a mind for creating spontaneous themes, melodies and forms that the musicians use as a springboard for variation and development. Their music can veer from intense, densely populated layers of melodic interplay, or quiet, sublime sounds that create fascinating textures, and everything in between. The players have enormous ears that are steeped in contemporary music, jazz, and countless other forms and styles - in short, expect the unexpected from this trio of celebrated musicians....
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february 24, 2013
sundays @berkeley arts
two sets, starting at 8 pm
Angelica Sanchez - Phillip Greenlief - Sam Ospovat trio
Angelica Sanchez - piano (NYC)
Phillip Greenlief - tenor saxophone
Sam Ospovat - drums
Pianist Angelica Sanchez is coming to the west coast for a west-coast tour with Phillip Greenlief and Sam Ospovat - two frequent collaborators. The trio plays improvised music, but not the free-wheeling sounds you would expect from the purveyors of classic free jazz, but rather music that is improvised with a mind for creating spontaneous themes, melodies and forms that the musicians use as a springboard for variation and development. Their music can veer from intense, densely populated layers of melodic interplay, or quiet, sublime sounds that create fascinating textures, and everything in between. The players have enormous ears that are steeped in contemporary music, jazz, and countless other forms and styles - in short, expect the unexpected from this trio of celebrated musicians.
Angelica Sanchez
Pianist/Composer Angelica Sanchez moved to New York in 1994. She studied Composition and Jazz at Arizona State University and since moving to the East Coast has played with: Wadada Leo Smith, Paul Motian, Brandon Ross, Ralph Alessi, Susie Ibarra, Tim Berne, Mario Pavone, Trevor Dunn, Mark Dresser, Ed Schuller, Reggie Nicholson, Mike Sarin, Ben Monder and many more.
Sanchez leads many groups including her own quintet featuring Marc Ducret, Tony Malaby, Drew Gress, and Tom Rainey. Her music has been recognized in international publications like, “Jazz Times Magazine”, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, and many more. She was also the 2008 recipient of the French/American Chamber Music America grant and the 2011 Rockefellers Brothers Pocantico artist residency. Her CD “Life Between” was chosen as one of years best recording 2009 in “All About Jazz/NY”. Her debut solo CD “A Little House” was released in January 2011 on the Clean Feed Label and has received numerous raves from the international music press. http://www.angelicasanchez.com
Phillip Greenlief
”The Bay Area's do-it-yourself ethos has produced a bevy of dazzlingly creative musicians, but few have put the philosophy to work as effectively as Phillip Greenlief.” – Andrew Gilbert, San Francisco Chronicle
Since his emergence on the west coast in the late 1970’s, Evander Music founder Phillip Greenlief has achieved international critical acclaim for his recordings and performances with musicians and composers in the post-jazz continuum as well as new music innovators and virtuosic improvisers. His ever-evolving relationship with the saxophone unfolds with an expansive sound vocabulary, a deep regard for melody and form and a rollicking humor and wit that is not dissimilar to the Native American Coyote tales. He is composer in residence with Rough and Tumble and teaches music at San Francisco Waldorf High School and the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts.
Recipient of the San Francisco Bay Guardian Goldie Award
http://www.evandermusic.com/artist_detail.asp?id=117
Sam Ospovat
Originally from Lincoln, Nebraska, Sam played piano and sang in boys' choir before picking up his first pair of drumsticks in 5th grade. Late nights spent improvising in friends' parents' basements eventually revealed to him the wisdom of moving to the Bay Area, where he studied percussion with William Winant, Peter Magadini, George Marsh, and lately with the Haitian master drummer Daniel Brevil. Based in Oakland, California, Sam plays drums in Beep, Naytronix, Timosaurus, Anteater, a duo with Lorin Benedict, the Oakland Active Orchestra, Marches, Aaron Novik's Dante Counterstamp, CavityFang, the pop band Kapowski and his solo project PIKI. He played with Cecil Taylor, Leo Smith, and Maryanne Amacher at Mills College, where he received his MFA in percussion performance. Since then Hhe has worked with with William Winant, Tuneyards, The SF Contemporary Music Players, members of Rova Saxophone Quartet, Ches Smith, Ava Mendoza, and in trio with Angelica Sanchez and Phillip Greenlief.
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