Guitarist and composer, Ava Mendoza, is an essential member of the SF Bay Area creative music scene. She is part of a breed, comfortable in a wide variety of situations – playing the yearning rock of Carla Bozulich’s Evangelista, note-y guitar sparring with Nels Cline, or performing a live score to a Buster Keaton silent film with Tune-Yards. Her recent focus has been Unnatural Ways, a jazzy rock(or rock-y jazz?) ensemble with Dominique Leone on keys and Nick Tamburro on drums.
She is also a teacher. In this episode she explains what she gets out of teaching besides a paycheck.
Thanks to San Francisco Rock Project – rockprojectsf.org/
more about Ava:
avamendozamusic.com
weirdforest.com/store/bandPages/mendoza.html#quit
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