A. Barnhouse
Myra Melford-Mark Dresser Duo

Pianist Myra Melford is one of the leading women in jazz today. She has appeared on more than 20 recordings (10 as a leader),won major awards for composition and piano performance, and worked with some of the world’s most innovative musicians. She currently leads several eclectic groups: Be Bread; The Tent; cooperative duos with Marty Ehrlich, Leroy Jenkins, or Mark Dresser; plus the collective Trio M. She also performs solo. In 2000 she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study North Indian harmonium music in Calcutta. Melford is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. “Myra Melford is at once a dancer, a romantic and a savage suckerpuncher at the bench . . . beating all hell out of the piano and making it beautiful.” (Coda Magazine).

Emerging from the L.A. “free jazz” scene, bassist, Mark Dresser has been composing and performing worldwide since 1972. He received degrees at UCSD where he studied with bass virtuoso Bertram Turetzky. Dresser moved to New York City where he played for nine years, in the quartet of composer-saxophonist, Anthony Braxton. Nominated for a 2003 Grammy for the performance of Osvaldo Golijov’s CD, Yiddishbbuk, Dresser has also composed original music for silent film projects and has received numerous commissions for a wide variety of ensembles. He is currently professor of music at UCSD. Opening the evening will be A. Barnhouse — a project in technological regression. A. Barnhouse was formed in 2005 when long time musical collaborators, bassist Carlos Santistevan and percussionist, Milton Villarrubia, III were reunited in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Deciding to “distance themselves from a reliance on electricity and an infatuation with electronic sounds and revert to their acoustic roots,” they joined with guitarist Yozo Suzuki and former folk musician, Alex Neville. All four are deeply involved in Santa Fe’s High Mayhem and play in several other ensembles .

$20/$15 Members. Available in advance, by phone or in person, at the Outpost Performance Space (268-0044)