This concert presents masters of improvised music from three generations performing in an intimate trio setting. Phillip Greenlief and Fred Frith have been playing duo for more than two decades and have produced the beautiful LANTSKAP LOGIC CD from Clean Feed Records (Portugal) as well as two celebrated CDs on the Intak label (Switzerland). On this occasion, they team up to explore new sound languages and the interactive communication that comes with a long-standing relationship to improvised music - both as individuals and in groups of all sizes.
Band Members and Instrumentation
Phillip Greenlief - Tenor Saxophone, Bb clarinet
Fred Frith - Electric Guitar, Effects
Jordan Glenn - percussion
Artist Bios
Fred Frith is a songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist and improviser performing mostly on various permutations of the electric and acoustic guitar. occasionally he uses crude home-made string instruments of his own invention. fred has been working in multiple contexts for more than 50 years—improvising, collaborating with like-minded musicians and choreographers, working in bands, recording film soundtracks, sculpting sound in the studio, and continuously refining his ideas about composition as an open-ended process.
Since his emergence on the west coast in the late 1970s, saxophonist/composer Phillip Greenlief has achieved international acclaim for his recordings and performances with musicians and composers in the post-jazz continuum as well as new music innovators and virtuosic improvisers. He has performed with Wadada Leo Smith, Meredith Monk, Rashaun Mitchell and They Might Be Giants. Albums include LANTSKAP LOGIC with Fred Frith and Evelyn Davis, THAT OVERT DESIRE OF OBJECT with Joelle Leandre, ALL AT ONCE with FPR (Frank Gratkowski and Jon Raskin), and OH THAT MONSTER with LA punk pioneers Thelonious Monster. Recent residencies have included the Banff Center for Art and Creativity, Neue Muzik Koln, and Headlands Center for the Arts. His critical writing has been published in Artforum, Open Space (SFMOMA), and Signal to Noise.
"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