DUO B.

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duo B., the San Francisco Bay Area improvising and composing ensemble of percussionist Jason Levis and bassist Lisa Mezzacappa, is a musical think tank of grand schemes and impossible scenarios. For more than ten years, the ensemble has developed and refined its singular approach to improvisation and composition, through cross-disciplinary projects with film, collaborations with improvising instrumentalists at home and abroad, study of repertoire by like-minded composer-improvisers, and immersion in the improvised-composed musical worlds of masters Wadada Leo Smith, Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor, Henry Threadgill, and others.

duo B.'s music is ethereal chamber music wrapped in dense improvised soundscapes. Levis uses gongs, Tibetan singing bowls, bowed cymbals, marimba and drumset to create lush, delicate textures and abstract noise grooves. Mezzacappa draws on a palette of sinister drones, punchy vamps and acoustic bass manipulations to weave storylines through gnarly rhythms, pointillistic shapes and ecstatic melodies. duo B.’s influences range from free jazz read more...
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DUO B. these things seem natural to us album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 these things seem natural to us
Avant-Garde Jazz 2008
DUO B. start this before dawn touches the skyscrapers album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 start this before dawn touches the skyscrapers
Avant-Garde Jazz 2011
DUO B. No Ins & Outs album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 No Ins & Outs
Avant-Garde Jazz 2017
DUO B. Luminous Axis album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Luminous Axis
Avant-Garde Jazz 2025

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