Lisa Mezzacappa's Before and After
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
Some live recordings from our debut performance at Intersection for the Arts in May 2008: