About
Longtime musical associates Peter Apfelbaum (piano, saxophone, flutes, percussion) and Paul Hanson (bassoon, woodwinds) appear in Duo for the first time at the piano store. Having met as students in the pioneering Berkeley public schools Jazz Program in the 1970's, the two began a lifelong musical association as members of Apfelbaum's Hieroglyphics Ensemble in 1977. In their largely improvised performances, the Apfelbaum/Hanson Duo combines Apfelbaum's expansive, polyrhythmic approach to the piano - blending elements of jazz, gospel, avant-garde and world music - with Hanson's singular, virtuosic, electronics-enhanced bassoon melodies which evoke the haunting beauty of Balkan music. For this show, they will be premiering new original compositions as well.
