Angel CIty Jazz Festival

Glorious Ravage is a panoramic free jazz song cycle by San Francisco Bay Area bassist and composer Lisa Mezzacappa, that features a large ensemble of stellar California improvisers performing new music in dialogue with films created by Bay Area moving image artists Janis Crystal Lipzin, Kathleen Quillian and Alfonso Alvarez. The program takes as its inspiration the adventures and writings of lady explorers of the 19th century who trekked to the wildest parts of the earth, to escape, to discover, and to lose themselves.

Glorious Ravage premieres over the course of a week in fall 2015, in Northern and Southern California – first at the Angel City Jazz Festival in Los Angeles, CA on Saturday September 26, with a preview performance at UC Irvine on Friday September 25, and then in San Francisco at Brava Theater Center on Thursday and Friday, October 1 and 2.