# Mary Halvorson's Code Girl at Joe Henderson Lab, July 21, 2019

[SFJAZZ](https://www.sfjazz.org/tickets/productions/code-girl-mary-halvorson/) presents [Mary Halvorson](http://www.maryhalvorson.com/)'s Code Girl featuring [Michael Formanek](http://www.amibotheringyou.com/), [Tomas Fujiwara](http://www.tomasfujiwara.com/), [Amirtha Kidambi](http://www.amirthakidambi.com/), and [Adam O'Farrill](https://www.adam-ofarrill.com/)  
[Joe Henderson Lab](http://www.sfjazz.org/center)  
[SFJAZZ Center, 205 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA 94102 USA](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=SFJAZZ+Center,+205+Franklin+St,+San+Francisco,+CA+94102+USA&hl=en)  
Late Show, 7:30 PM, Sunday, July 21, 2019

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## One Set

[7:29 PM announcements from the soundboard mixer]

01. [7:31 PM] _The Beast_
02. [7:37 PM] (unidentified tune \#1, lyric snippet "trace amounts of dynamo")
03. [7:48 PM] _Storm Cloud_
04. [7:57 PM] (unidentified instrumental)
05. [8:03 PM] _The Unexpected Natural Phenomenon_
06. [8:14 PM] _Possibility of Lightning_
07. [8:22 PM] _Accurate Hit_    
[set ends 8:27 PM MH introduces the band; 8:29 PM all off; 8:30 PM no encore, we're done. Drat!]


## Performers

* [Michael Formanek](http://www.amibotheringyou.com/): contrabass;
* [Tomas Fujiwara](http://www.tomasfujiwara.com/): drums;
* [Mary Halvorson](http://www.maryhalvorson.com/): guitar;
* [Amirtha Kidambi](http://www.amirthakidambi.com/): vox;
* [Adam O'Farrill](https://www.adam-ofarrill.com/): trumpet.

## Notes

Tonight's show was pretty darn strange. Very little in the traditional jazz vein here, rather, something more like avant garde classical art song with angular and spiky back-up from a small ensemble. Presumably I got the lyric snippets wrong for the first two tunes; hopefully someone with better ears than me will laugh and share positive identification -- I expect all of the tunes came from the _Code Girl_ album, but heck, neither Mary nor Amirtha said a word to us about the tunes, so that's just another guess too.

As expected, Mary played a lot of really interesting guitar, but it wasn't easy to follow either melodically or harmonically -- she's got a strange muse! I'm sure I'll see her again sometime, but next time I think I'll try and do a bit better in my pre-show prep: listening to the album would have helped me appreciate the gig.

Andrew Gilbert posted a [review](https://www.sfcv.org/reviews/sfjazz/guitarist-mary-halvorson-in-three-and-five) for tonight's early show at SFCV.

## Photos

Big thanks to Ting for the photo gallery!

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