Joshua Redman, Lyrics Born, and More: A Night of Improved Round Robin Duets
Red Bull Music Academy Radio is celebrating a full-on decade of broadcasting with a fairly overwhelming spate of events around the city this week. But this imaginative format caught our eye most of all, not to mention a lineup that reads like a who's-who in East Bay music: Berkeley jazz saxophone great
Joshua Redman, hip-hop veterans
Lyrics Born and
Gift of Gab,
Tommy Capell of the livetronica group
Beats Antique, violinist
Jenny Scheinman, and more than a dozen others will take turns riffing off each other for five-minute improvisations, all in duos. Talk about your genre-blending. If you have musical ADD (and who doesn't?) this is the place to be.