Phillip Greenlief: Citta di Vitti

Thu Aug 18 2022 at 08:00 pm to 09:30 pm

Hammer Museum | Los Angeles

Hammer Museum
Publisher/HostHammer Museum
Phillip Greenlief: Citta di Vitti
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Part of the JazzPOP concert series, Greenlief plays from his Citta di Vitti project.
About this Event

Phillip Greenlief, alto saxophone

Lisa Mezzacappa, bass

Jason Levis, drums


It’s hard to overstate the impact multi-reed player and composer Phillip Greenlief has had on the San Francisco Bay Area music community, where he has been a performer, ensemble leader, and collaborator with musicians, dancers, and writers for more than three decades. A master improviser, Greenlief has performed with creative music luminaries like Fred Frith, Wadada Leo Smith, and Joëlle Léandre, and guested with rock bands like They Might Be Giants and Thelonious Monster.


Greenlief is also a devout cinephile, and his Citta di Vitti project is a collection of evocative, jaunty, moody compositions for trio (alto saxophone, bass, drums) that he composed to accompany the films of Michelangelo Antonioni, whose muse, the luminous actor Monica Vitti, died in early 2022. “A ravishing, spacious, and angst-ridden set of tunes” (San Francisco Classical Voice).

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, United States

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