LISA MEZZACAPPA

Avant-Garde Jazz / 21st Century Modern • United States
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Lisa Mezzacappa is a double bassist, composer, collaborator and musical instigator. Her music lives in the intersection of improvisation and composition, and her projects often integrate improvisation-infused composition into public spaces and cross-disciplinary works. She studied bass with Michael Formanek and Peter Spaar, studied improvisation with Henry Threadgill, Steve Coleman and John D'earth, and has workshopped with the Sun Ra Arkestra, Bob Moses, Art Baron, Meredith Monk, Terry Riley and David Murray, among others. Lisa has performed at countless Bay Area venues including Intersection for the Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SFMOMA, and the de Young Museum, San Francisco; as well as the Earshot Jazz Festival, Seattle; and the Montreal Jazz Festival; Canada.

Lisa has been artist-in-residence at Djerassi Resident Artists Program (2008), Headlands Center for the Arts (2006), the Banff International Jazz Workshop (2000), and the Painted Bride Arts Center (2000). She holds an MA in ethnomusicology from read more...
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LISA MEZZACAPPA Mezzacappa Amador Stephan Aschheim : Earworms album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Mezzacappa Amador Stephan Aschheim : Earworms
Avant-Garde Jazz 2008
LISA MEZZACAPPA What is Known album cover 3.75 | 2 ratings
 What is Known
Avant-Garde Jazz 2010
LISA MEZZACAPPA Lisa Mezzacappa & Nightshade : Cosmic Rift album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Lisa Mezzacappa & Nightshade : Cosmic Rift
Avant-Garde Jazz 2011
LISA MEZZACAPPA Hell-Bent in the Pacific (with Vinny Golia, Marco Eneidi,Vijay Anderson) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Hell-Bent in the Pacific (with Vinny Golia, Marco Eneidi,Vijay Anderson)
Avant-Garde Jazz 2012
LISA MEZZACAPPA Lisa Mezzacappa’s Bait & Switch : Comeuppance album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Lisa Mezzacappa’s Bait & Switch : Comeuppance
Avant-Garde Jazz 2013
LISA MEZZACAPPA X Marks The Question album cover 4.50 | 1 ratings
 X Marks The Question
Avant-Garde Jazz 2013
LISA MEZZACAPPA avantNOIR album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
 avantNOIR
Avant-Garde Jazz 2017
LISA MEZZACAPPA Glorious Ravage album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Glorious Ravage
Avant-Garde Jazz 2017
LISA MEZZACAPPA Lisa Mezzacappa Six : Cosmicomics album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Lisa Mezzacappa Six : Cosmicomics
21st Century Modern 2020

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