List of Bay Area Improv Scene bands and artists
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This is a partial list of bands, performers and composers who are or have been associated with the Bay Area Improv Scene
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Bay Area Improv Scene
The Bay Area Improv Scene is a commonly used name for a loose association of musicians and composers centered in the San Francisco Bay Area who create a style of music that evolved largely from avant-garde jazz and modern classical music, with influences from other areas such as Electronic art...
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- Liz Allbee
- Bruce Ackley
- Ashley AdamsAshley AdamsAshley Adams is an Australian cattle grazier and Paralympic shooting medallist.-Personal:Adams was born on 12 October 1955. He became a paraplegic in 1982 at the age of 26 after being involved in an accident at a local motorbike competition, where he fell off his motorbike and broke his back....
- Steve AdamsSteve Adams (musician)Steven Rue Adams is a California-based American bassist and co-founder of San Francisco rock/pop/jamband Animal Liberation Orchestra . In addition to his work with ALO, Steve has toured and recorded with many other musicians. Recording credits include Forest Sun, Tim Bluhm, Nicki Bluhm, Zach Gill...
- Carol Alban
- Liz Allbee
- Josh Allen
- Scott AmendolaScott AmendolaScott Amendola is an American jazz drummer from the San Francisco Bay Area. His styles include jazz, blues, groove, rock and new music. He is considered central to the Bay Area music scene....
- Vijay Anderson
- Kristian Aspelin
- Kattt Atchley
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- Jen Baker
- Aaron Bennett
- Tom Bickley
- John Bischoff
- CJ Borosque
- Nathaniel Brenner
- Chris Brown
- Kyle Bruckmann
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- Cloud Shepherd
- Michael Coleman
- Graham Connah
- George Cremaschi
- Chikading!
- Beth Custer
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- Philip Gelb
- Jordan Glenn
- Ben Goldberg
- Matthew Goodheart
- Greg Goodman
- Lance Grabmiller
- Phillip Greenlief
- GrexGrexGrex is the Latin word for herd or flock. The word is also used for:* GREX, the Georgetown Rail Equipment Company located in Georgetown, Texas...
- Morgan Guberman
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- Henry KaiserHenry Kaiser (musician)Henry Kaiser is an American guitarist and composer.Recording and performing prolifically in many styles of music, Kaiser is a fixture on the San Francisco Bay Area music scene. He is considered a member of the "first generation" of American free improvisers.-Biography:His grandfather was the...
- Carla KihlstedtCarla KihlstedtCarla Kihlstedt is an American violinist, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist from Lancaster, Pennsylvania currently living in Oakland, California....
- Walter KitunduWalter KitunduWalter Kitundu is a musical instrument builder, graphic artist, and musical composer from San Francisco, California.-Biography:Kitundu was born in Rochester, Minnesota and spent his early years in Tanzania. He returned to Minnesota from age 8 to 25, then moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in...
- Henry Kuntz
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- MarchesMarchesA march or mark refers to a border region similar to a frontier, such as the Welsh Marches, the borderland between England and Wales. During the Frankish Carolingian Dynasty, the word spread throughout Europe....
- Bob Marsh
- Miya MasaokaMiya MasaokaMiya Masaoka is an American musician and composer who performs on the 17-string Japanese koto zither, often augmenting it with string preparations and electronic triggers...
- Marianne McDonald
- Ava Mendoza
- Lisa Mezzacappa
- David Michalak
- Polly Moller
- Mutual Aid Project
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- Reconnaissance Fly
- Donald Robinson
- Rent RomusRent RomusRent Romus is an American saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, music and performing arts producer, and community leader living in the San Francisco Bay Area.-Beginnings:...
- Gino RobairGino RobairGino Robair is an American composer, improvisor, drummer, and percussionist. In his own work , he plays prepared/modified percussion, analog synthesizer, ebow and prepared piano, theremin, and bowed objects...
- Scott RosenbergScott RosenbergScott Rosenberg is an American actor, screenwriter and film producer.- Biography :Born in Needham, Massachusetts in 1963, Rosenberg received a Bachelor's Degree from Boston University. He earned his MFA from UCLA...
- Rova Saxophone QuartetRova Saxophone QuartetThe Rova Saxophone Quartet is a San Francisco-based saxophone quartet formed in October 1977 at the same time as their "less adventurous" but better known colleagues the World Saxophone Quartet. The name "Rova" is an acronym formed from the last initials of the founding members: Jon Raskin, Larry...
( Bruce Ackley Steve AdamsSteve Adams (musician)Steven Rue Adams is a California-based American bassist and co-founder of San Francisco rock/pop/jamband Animal Liberation Orchestra . In addition to his work with ALO, Steve has toured and recorded with many other musicians. Recording credits include Forest Sun, Tim Bluhm, Nicki Bluhm, Zach Gill...
Jon Raskin Larry OchsLarry OchsLawrence David Ochs was the last mayor of Colorado Springs, Colorado to be elected to the post by the city council. Ochs served on the Colorado Springs City Council from 1967 to 1975 and was mayor from 1975 to 1979. Since then the position has been a popularly elected one.Ochs was born in Russell,...
and formerly Andrew Voigt ) - Jim Ryan
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- Tom Scandura
- John Schott
- sfSoundGroup
- Aram Shelton
- John Shiurba
- Shudder
- David Slusser
- Ches SmithChes SmithChes Smith is an American musician whose primary instruments are drums, percussion, and vibraphone. He writes and performs music in a wide variety of contexts, including solo percussion, experimental rock bands, and small and large jazz ensembles....
- Damon Smith
- SpiritSpiritThe English word spirit has many differing meanings and connotations, most of them relating to a non-corporeal substance contrasted with the material body.The spirit of a living thing usually refers to or explains its consciousness.The notions of a person's "spirit" and "soul" often also overlap,...
- Glenn SpearmanGlenn SpearmanGlenn Spearman was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. He was specifically associated with free jazz and experimental music....
- Matthew Sperry
- Karen Stackpole
- Moe! StaianoMoe! StaianoMoe Staiano is an American experimental drummer/percussionist and composer who works in a variety of found sounds and prepared trap set as well as massive orchestra conductions of his own scored compositions.-His style:Mainly an improviser in a solo performance setting, Moe! Staiano Moe Staiano...
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- Marc Weinstein
- Wiener Kids
- William WinantWilliam WinantWilliam Winant is an American percussionist.In addition to his work in contemporary classical music -- notably performing Lou Harrison's compositions—Winant has worked in a variety of genres, including noise rock, free improvisation and jazz. Notable collaborators include Glenn Spearman, Thurston...
- Wobbly
- Weasel WalterWeasel WalterWeasel Walter is a composer and instrumentalist who founded the band The Flying Luttenbachers in Chicago in 1991 with late jazz cult figure Hal Russell and is a current member of Cellular Chaos and Behold...The Arctopus...
- Francis WongFrancis WongFrancis Wong is an American jazz saxophonist, flutist, and erhu player.He is of Chinese descent; his father is from Shanghai and his mother is Cantonese. He specializes in the fusion of free jazz and Asian musics, and is a central member in the Asian American jazz movement...
- Theresa Wong
- Cory Wright