Visionary composer, saxophonist, percussionist, and pianist, Berkeley High School alumnus (now residing in Brooklyn) Peter Apfelbaum combines folk melodies and a command of Indian, African, Latin, and Indonesian music with the compositional and aesthetic influences of Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus. His music provides a sonic landscape of the multicultural world beyond our own, revealing not only a compelling vision of jazz in the present, but of what jazz might become. A product of the Berkeley schoolęs pioneering jazz program, Peter founded the famed Hieroglyphics Ensemble while he was in high school, helping launch the careers of his student colleagues, Benny Green, Craig Handy, and Joshua Redman, and gained international renown collaborating with legendary trumpeter, the late Don Cherry. Tonight Peter performs with his west coast jazz and world music fusion colleagues -- trombonist Jeff Cressman, guitarist Will Bernard, violinist Rachel Durling, drummer Deszon Claiborne, percussionist Josh Jones, bassist Keith MacArthur.