San Diego Museum of Art: Jazz Residency: Sound and Image

Mark DresserOnTour

Mark Dresser-bass, Myra Melford-piano, Nicole Mitchell-flutes, Michael Dessen-trombone Interdisciplinary collaboration has long been a part of Mark Dresser’s artistic practice, whether it is creating music for historic silent film, composing and performing for living filmmakers, creating music for sculpture, or performing across geographical borders via the Internet. Tonight’s performance will use the paintings of the late Don Reich and the …

San Diego Museum of Art: Jazz Residency: Bass is the Space

Mark DresserOnTour

Mark Dresser joined by Bert Turetzky, Joe McNalley, Scott Worthington, Tim McNalley-contrabasses, Jeff Kaiser-video The contrabass is the fundamental instrument in most genres of music as well as one of the most expressive, rich, and dynamic of solo instruments. From the subsonic to the ultra high registers the bass can project a range of form and feeling from the earthy to the cosmic. …

San Diego Museum of Art: Jazz Residency: Mark Dresser Quartet

Mark DresserOnTour

Mark Dresser QuartetDenman Maroney-hyperpiano, Kjell Nordeson-drums, David Boroff -violin, and bassist/ composer Mark Dresser. Mark Dresser, the internationally renowned improviser, performer, and composer has created music that is a personal approach to the jazz tradition: beauty of melody, counterpoint, harmony, swing, rhythmic invention and sometimes cyclical form. In addition, the music seeks to integrate the blurring of boundaries between pitch and noise, meter and …