Arts & Events

Phillip Greenlief, excellent Oakland saxophonist and woodwinds player, maybe best-known locally for his 20 years and counting with The Lost Trio, who has collaborated with many fine improvisors, will be reunited onstage at 9 p.m. Thursday, February 12 at Berkeley Arts Festival with the brilliant Provençale double bassist Joëlle Léandre, who has played with a great range of international musicians and performing artists, from Pierre Boulez and John Cage to Steve Lacy and Marilyn Crispell, Anthony Braxton and Derek Bailey, some of whom have written music for her. The duo put out a CD on the Relative Pitch label in 2009, That Obscure Desire of Object. Opening at 8 will be trumpeter Mazen Kerbaj from Beirut.