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<!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 19pt; font-family: TrebuchetMS-Bold; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#505050">Saxophonist/Composer George Brooks</font></b></span><span style="font-size: 19pt; font-family: TrebuchetMS; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#505050"><o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 19pt; font-family: TrebuchetMS-Bold; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#505050">& Poet Michael McClure</font></b></span><span style="font-size: 19pt; font-family: TrebuchetMS; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#505050"><o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 19pt; font-family: TrebuchetMS-Bold; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#505050">Premiere Newly Commissioned</font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#505050"><o:p></o:p></font></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 19pt; font-family: TrebuchetMS-Bold; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#505050">Jazz-Poetry Work, "Double Moiré,"</font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#505050"><o:p></o:p></font></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 19pt; font-family: TrebuchetMS-Bold; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#505050">On May 3</font><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Verdana-Bold; color:#8C0033"><b> </b></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family: Verdana;color:#5D5C56"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Verdana-Bold;color:#8C0033"><b>Event Is Part of a 3-Day</b></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#5D5C56"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Verdana-Bold;color:#8C0033"><b>"Literary Groove of Jazz" Weekend </b></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana; color:#5D5C56"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Verdana-Bold;color:#8C0033"><b>Held at the Jazzschool May 1-3</b></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#5D5C56"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:TrebuchetMS-Bold;color:#236766"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TrebuchetMS-Bold; color:#236766"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TrebuchetMS-Bold; color:#236766"><b>Berkeley, Calif. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:TrebuchetMS-Bold; color:#5D5C56"><b>April 14, 2009</b></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Verdana;color:#5D5C56"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TrebuchetMS-Bold; color:#236766"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TrebuchetMS">The <a href="http://www.jazzschool.com/"><span style="font-family:TrebuchetMS-Bold; color:#002BF0"><b>Jazzschool</b></span></a> is hosting a three-day jazz-and-poetry "Literary Groove of Jazz" weekend, Friday through Sunday, May 1-3, featuring performances by leading lights from the Bay Area jazz-poetry scene such as </span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family: TrebuchetMS-Bold"><b>Michael McClure</b></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:TrebuchetMS">, </span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family: TrebuchetMS-Bold"><b>George Brooks</b></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:TrebuchetMS">, </span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family: TrebuchetMS-Bold"><b>Avotcja</b></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:TrebuchetMS">, and </span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family: TrebuchetMS-Bold"><b>Opal Palmer Adisa</b></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:TrebuchetMS">, as well as a workshop led by McClure and Brooks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TrebuchetMS"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TrebuchetMS"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TrebuchetMS">Earlier this year the Jazzschool was awarded an American Composers Forum commissioning grant and commissioned saxophonist/composer <a href="http://www.georgebrooks.com/"><span style="font-family:TrebuchetMS-Bold; color:#002BF0"><b>George Brooks</b></span></a> to write a new piece of music to perform with poet <a href="http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/mcclure/mcclure.html"><span style="font-family:TrebuchetMS-Bold;color:#002BF0"><b>Michael McClure</b></span></a>. Brooks wrote a piece entitled "</span><span style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:TrebuchetMS-Bold"><b>Double Moiré</b></span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;font-family:TrebuchetMS">," for McClure's poem "Double Moiré for Francis Crick," which will premiere at the weekend's May 3 concert. Brooks and McClure, who have been frequent collaborators in recent years, will perform with bassist </span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TrebuchetMS-Bold"><b>Chris Lopes</b></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TrebuchetMS"> and drummer </span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TrebuchetMS-Bold"><b>Scott Amendola</b></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TrebuchetMS">.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TrebuchetMS"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TrebuchetMS">"Michael's poetry is a powerful creative stimulant for me," says Brooks. "His visceral and visual imagery inspires me to explore, both inside myself and on new musical terrain."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TrebuchetMS"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TrebuchetMS">McClure and Brooks will lead a workshop ("Composition, Improvisation and Collaboration") prior to their May 3 concert. Video and photos of the events will be added to McClure's archive, which for the last seven years has been housed at the University of California Bancroft Collections.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TrebuchetMS"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TrebuchetMS"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(140, 0, 0); font-family: TrebuchetMS-Bold; font-weight: bold; ">Sun. 5/3, 1:00-3:00 pm</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TrebuchetMS">Michael McClure & George Brooks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TrebuchetMS-Italic"><i>Workshop:</i></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TrebuchetMS"> Poetry and Jazz -- Composition, Improvisation and Collaboration<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TrebuchetMS-Bold"><b>Michael McClure</b></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TrebuchetMS"> and </span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TrebuchetMS-Bold"><b>George Brooks</b></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TrebuchetMS"> discuss the challenges and rewards inherent in collaboration between poets and musicians and explain the creative processes involved in the development of "Double Moiré," their new work for jazz ensemble and poet. Both poets and composers are encouraged to attend and bring their poems and compositions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TrebuchetMS">$20 Jazzschool students, $30 others<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TrebuchetMS"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TrebuchetMS"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(140, 0, 0); font-family: TrebuchetMS-Bold; font-weight: bold; ">Sun. 5/3, 4:30 pm</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TrebuchetMS">George Brooks' "Double Moiré"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TrebuchetMS">A new work of jazz and poetry by </span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family: TrebuchetMS-Bold"><b>George Brooks</b></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:TrebuchetMS"> and </span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family: TrebuchetMS-Bold"><b>Michael McClure</b></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:TrebuchetMS">, inspired by "Double Moiré for Francis Crick," McClure's visionary poem of nature and the universe, and dedicated to Crick, elucidator of the DNA molecule. </span><span style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:TrebuchetMS-Italic"><i>The premiere of "Double Moiré" has been made possible by a grant from the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the American Composers Forum.</i></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family: TrebuchetMS"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TrebuchetMS">$15<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TrebuchetMS"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TrebuchetMS"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TrebuchetMS"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana-Bold; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; ">Jazzschool Web Site<span style="color:#5D5C56">: <a href="http://www.jazzschool.com/"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#002EFF;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none;font-weight:normal">http://www.jazzschool.com</span></a></span></span></span></p> <div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#5D5C56" face="Verdana" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>