More Information The Beth Custer Ensemble returns to 142 Throckmorton to perform an evening of Custer's wide ranging, funky songs and instrumentals. Long hailed as a Bay Area gem ("Second Chair to No One" East Bay Express) , Custer will be singing and playing clarinets with her long standing, incredibly tight and intuitive septet. BCE is Jan Jackson on drums (Will Bernard, Chuck Berry), David James, guitar (Sila Afrofunk Experience, Spearhead) Lisa Mezzacappa, bass (Bait & Switch, Duo B), Graham Connah, piano (Ted Brinkley), Chris Grady, trumpet (Club Foot Orchestra, Tom Waits), Diana Mangano, vocals (Jefferson Starship) and Custer on vocals/clarinets (Trance Mission, Club Foot Orchestra, Eighty Mile Beach, Clarinet Thing). |