COMING MARCH 7, 2025

Cory's new album on Queen Bee Records featuring Lisa Mezzacappa, bass & Jason Levis, drums

Nature Channel is the latest release by San Francisco Bay Area multi-reedist and composer Cory Wright’s Green Mitchell Trio. The long-awaited follow up to the trio’s Edgetone Records debut, Nature Channel is a diverse collection of pieces imagining new possibilities for the classic sax-bass-drums trio. Tuneful melodies, high-energy free improvisation, driving (acoustic) metal, rippling spaciousness, and finely crafted dissonances combine to create five distinct sound worlds for the trio’s explorations.

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Nature Channel is the second release in a series of 12 recordings featuring Bay Area creative composers and musicians, released monthly from February 2025 through February 2026 by bassist Lisa Mezzacappa’s micro label Queen Bee Records.

Wright’s Green Mitchell collaborators are powerful and enduring contributors to the Bay Area creative music world. Bassist Lisa Mezzacappa is a top practitioner of both traditional and extended techniques on the instrument and her own recent projects include the sextet album Cosmicomics, the audio opera The Electronic Lover, and the multi-media song cycle Glorious Ravage. Jason Levis is a dynamic drummer who deftly integrates groove, energy, precision and nuance in his playing. He is an accomplished composer and is the leader of the avant-dub reggae band Joseph’s Bones. Mezzacappa and Levis have a longstanding partnership in the adventurous ensemble duo B., and their omnivorous approach to musical styles and materials makes them a perfect fit for Wright’s compositional and improvisational sensibilities. Together, the three continue to find new modes of interplay, seeking original ways to express the ineffable.

Nature Channel artwork: Orbital Monkeys

trio photo: Myles Boisen