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Rob Wasserman • Michael McClure • Jay Lane

New Music!

Thursday, September 12th, 2013 • 8:00 p.m.

Sweetwater Music Hall

19 Corte Madera Ave., Mill Valley, CA 94941
Limited Seating • Box Office 415-388-1100

“Rob Wasserman was performing with Lou Reed — I was knocked out. Soon Rob and I were writing songs together, sometimes at Bob Weir’s place with Rob’s genius-drummer friend, Jay Lane. Now the 3 of us are linking up again at the Sweetwater.”
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PERFORMANCE:

Gorge Brooks, saxophone
Michael McClure, poetry
Rob Wasserman, bass

Jazz and Poetry performance

Friday, July 26, 2013

2 sets: 6:30 pm & 7:45 pm

deYoung Museum of San Francisco

currently showing: Richard Diebenkorn, The Berkeley Years, 1953–1966

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1st ANNUAL
SAN FRANCISCO JAZZ POETRY FESTIVAL

AL YOUNG with bass
MICHAEL McCLURE
with GEORGE BROOKS on sax

SFJAZZ Laureate ISHMAEL REED
with piano

Saturday, JUNE 8, 2013
2 shows, 7:30 & 9:00

SFJAZZ Center, Joe Henderson Lab
201 Franklin St, San Francisco

Limited seating!

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THE BIG MIX
at Sweetwater Music Hall
Mill Valley, CA

November 14, 2012

What do you get if you take Beat icon Michael McClure (who penned Janis Joplin’s “Mercedes Benz”), add Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Famer Ray Manzarek (Doors keyboardist), stir in jazz/Indian fusion saxophonist and composer George Brooks (Etta James, Summit, Bombay Jazz), infuse with legendary bassist Kai Eckhardt (John McGlaughlin, Garaj Mahal, Zeitgeist), and shake it all up with drummer Jay Lane (Primus, Bob Weir & Ratdog)?

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Released August 14, 2012!

MICHAEL McCLURE & RAY MANZAREK

THE PIANO POEMS:
LIVE FROM SAN FRANCISCO

A collaboration between Ray Manzarek and Michael McClure, this live performance, recorded at an old church, features both new and older poems, with McClure’s words and Manzarek’s jazz piano.

On a cold, foggy night in San Francisco after a great Japanese meal, Manzarek and I stepped onto the stage and there were sparks of consciousness – the stage was on fire with poems and

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BIG MIX:
RAY MANZAREK, MICHAEL McCLURE
GEORGE BROOKS, KAI ECKHARDT
& JAY LANE

Dharma Boogie at its Best!

Tuesday, August 30, 2011, 8:00 pm
YOSHI’S JAZZ CLUB
510 Embarcadero West, Oakland, CA
$20
www.yoshis.com

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BIG MIX:
RAY MANZAREK, MICHAEL McCLURE
GEORGE BROOKS, KAI ECKHARDT
& JAY LANE

Dharma Boogie at its Best!

THROCKMORTON THEATRE
Wednesday, August 10, 2011, 8:00pm
142 Throckmorton Ave. Mill Valley, CA
$24 – $27

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The Foundation of the Sacred Stream presents:

MICHAEL McCLURE and
saxophonist GEORGE BROOKS

Jazz, Poetry and deepening of consciousness!

Saturday, August 13, 2011, 8:00 pm
In a private home, St. Francis Woods near Glen Park, San Francisco
$40 Contribution
Reception after the concert, wine and dessert included

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Mysteriosos Readings & Events

The first reading of Michael McClure’s new poetry collection, Mysteriosos, will take place for the Grolier Poetry Bookshop at the Pierre Menard Art Gallery in Harvard Square on Sunday, April 11.

The second event will be a performance with Ray Manzarek at the Jazzmouth Festival in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on Saturday, April 24. Ray and Michael will present Mysteriosos and Michael will do signings.

City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco will host a reading and

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Saxophonist George Brooks
& Poet Michael McClure

Premiere Newly Commissioned Jazz-Poetry Work,
“Double Moiré”

Sunday May 3, 2009 / 4:30pm

at the Jazzschool
2087 Addison St,
Berkeley, CA 94704

510-845-5373
admission $15.00

Scott Amendola – Drums
Chris Lopes — Bass

Light environment by Alessandro Moruzzi

The premiere of “Double Moiré” has been made possible by a grant from the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the American Composers Forum.

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BIG MIX:

Michael McClure, Ray Manzarek,
George Brooks, Rob Wasserman, & Jay Lane

Wednesday, May 7, 2008
2 shows – 8pm & 10pm

YOSHI’S San Francisco
1330 Fillmore Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
415.655.5575

Original Beat icon Michael McClure, who penned Janis Joplin’s immortal “Mercedes Benz,” and Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer who created one of rock’s most memorable instrumental lines (think “Light My Fire”), join forces with saxophonist George Brooks (Summit,

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