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	Jazzschool (MAP) 2087 Addison Street Berkeley, CA US 94704

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	Event Information: 510-845-5373

More Information Bassist/Composer Todd Sickafoose talks about texture, rhythm, dynamics, pacing and repetition as ways to shape music without getting bogged down in pitch and harmony. And then we talk about pitch anyway because it’s fun. Please bring instruments & music paper. If you have music that you are working on, please bring that too. A captivating improviser, imaginative composer, and master of collaboration. — San Francisco Chronicle Ani DiFranco’s secret weapon. — The New Yorker A Bay Area native, Sickafoose spent some years in Los Angeles studying bass with Charlie Haden and composition with the great, late Mel Powell. Since then, he’s been recording and performing with a ton of innovative folks and genre benders including Ani DiFranco, Andrew workshops and short-term classes 49 Bird, Don Byron, Trey Anastasio, Jenny Scheinman, Nels Cline, Ron Miles, Myra Melford, Tin Hat Trio, Adam Levy, Skerik, Stanton Moore, Bobby Previte, Scott Amendola, Will Bernard, Stebmo, Jessica Lurie, Shane Endsley, Erin McKeown, Anaïs Mitchell, Gina Leishman, Carla Bozulich, Noe Venable, Etienne de Rocher, James Carney, Erik Deutsch, Tony Furtado, and Darol Anger. The consistency of his personal voice within wildly diverse collaborations prompted the LA Weekly in 2004 to call Todd “one of the most comprehensive musical minds of this coast.” Since 2005, Todd has been living in Brooklyn, NY. Email a friend