1. Roberto’s invites you to “Yotam Silberstein Quartet & Sharel Cassity Sextet ”

Date: Monday, May 24, 2010
Time: 8pm – Yotam Silberstein Quartet (Yotam Silberstein – Guitar, Roy Assaf – Piano, Ulysses Owens – Drums and 
John Lee – Bass). 10pm – Sharel Cassity Sextet (Sharel Cassity – Alto Saxophone, Michael Dease – Trombone, Greg Gisbert – Trumpet, Ulysses Owens – Drum, John Lee – Bass, Roy Assaf – Piano)
Venue: Rosie O’Grady’s (149 West 46 Street, New York, NY 10036)
Ticket: $10 each set
Genre: Jazz

2. New Africa Live presents Meklit Hadero & The Olatuja Project

Date: Tuesday, june 1, 2010
Time: 7pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleeker St., Ny, NY 10012, Phone: (212) 505-3474)
Ticket: $22
Genre: folk, singer-songwriter, electronic, jazz, world

Meklit Hadero is a true modern global artist: born in Ethiopia, raised in US and nurtured for the last several years in San Francisco’s richly diverse arts scene. Add in a warm and luminous singing voice and lyrical songwriting that moves from the starkly personal to the poetically metaphoric.

Speak, the title of bassist Michael Olatuja’s debut album, holds deep personal meaning for its creator, exemplifying in a single word the album’s underlying themes of hope, encouragement, inspiration and positivity. The album, which will be released on July 28 on Backdrop, ObliqSound’s imprint focusing on modern electronic and groove-based music, tells the story of the British/Nigerian artist’s musical and personal journey. “The language of music is one that we all speak,” Olatuja explains. “It unites diverse cultures.”

3. Noa Guy: Drops of Consciousness Part Three

Date: Tueday, june 1, 2010
Time: 8:30pm
Venue: The Roulette (20 Green Street (between Canal and Grand), NYC)
Ticket: $15
Genre: contemporary, electronics

Noa Guy – composer, piano, voice, movement
Thomas Buckner – voice
Antonio Pio Fini – movement
Saul Macwillians – sound environment design

Drops of Consciousness is a series of concerts that are documenting my recovery from a severe brain injury, which happened 17 years ago when I had a brutal scuffle with a tree. The car I was in did not survive.

In part I and II I explored the long journey back from a world of darkness and pain, and the birth into a new reality.

Part III is not a linear continuation of the last two chapters. This performance is a celebration of acceptance, love of life and the realization that I am not my injury. With the support of my friends I explore the hidden possibilities that are embedded in the impossibilities imposed on me by my injury. I can not walk without crutches, but I can move without them. The piano revealed to me a whole new and mysterious sound world.

I composed the music, the poems, and the concept of the whole piece. But the piece grew and became a world of beauty through a close collaboration between all of us that perform tonight.

I thank Tom, Daniel and Saul for their bright ideas, insights, respect and love.

Born in Israel in 1949, Noa Guy studied in the theory department of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and continued to evolve privately and compose original pieces along with composer Abel Ehrlich. In the early 70’s Noa studied composition and electronic music with Boris Blacher in the Hochscule fur Musik in West Berlin. She moved to Norway where she made two fantastic kids and continued her explorations. After returning to Israel in 1975 Noa worked with Karlheinz Stockhousen for three years, and took master classes with Luciano Berio and Milton Babbitt. After collaborating with Heinz Holiger, Noa received a scholarship from the Scola Cantorum in Basel to compose the electronic score that was later played with live performance by renowned English tenor John Potter in the Nettlefols Festival of Contemporary Music. She later became sound artist for Ward Swingle on his visit to Israel. From 1985 until 1993 Noa was the musical director at the Jerusalem Music Centre (JMC), where she headed the master class program, and acted as sound engineer and assistant director to all the television productions of JMC. Throughout all these years Noa continued to compose and perform with international accolades. In the early nineties Noa was invited to NY to work under the tutelage of Isaac Stern. In October of 1993, while driving her and a colleague to New York, Mr. Stern crashed their vehicle inflicting on Noa a severe head injury that changed her life. The resulting brain injury prevented Noa from traveling back to Israel and seeing her family. Worse yet for her, she was unable to play, listen to, or compose any new music. In the 13 years since the accident, Noa was consumed in her own rehabilitation process finding innovative ways to overcome her many physical and mental obstacles. The November 30th, 2006 show at Roulette has marked the first time this unusual musician broke her long imposed silence.

4. Afro Jazz Latin Alliance

Dates: Friday, Jun 4 & Saturday, Jun 5, 2010
Time: 8pm
Venue: Peter Jay Sharp Theatre/Symphony Space (2537 Broadway and 95th St., NY, 212-864-5400)
Tickets: $35; Members $30; Students, Seniors $20; Day of Show $40
Genre: Latin Jazz

“Musica Nueva 3: Latin Jazz Across the Americas” showcases new works from composers throughout the Americas, including world premieres, part of the ongoing commitment of Symphony Space and the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance to new music through the Sonidos de Colores initiative. This concert has traditionally been an audience favorite and promises to be a peek into the future of the music we call jazz and Latin jazz.

5. SambaDa

Date: Saturday, June 5, 2010
Time: 8pm
Venue: SOB’s (204 Varick Street, NY)
Ticket: $15
Genre: Samba, Surf rock

Brazilian surf-rock band SambaDa will be celebrating the release of their new album Gente! at SOB’s in NYC Saturday, June 5th.

6. Underground Horns

Date: Saturday, June 5, 2010
Time: 11pm
Venue: The Shrine (2271 Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard, btwn 133. & 134, Harlem, NY) 
Ticket: no cover
Genre: afro-funk

Underground Horns: Afro-funk new orleans salsa brass band mayhem! 
Members:
Welf Dorr – alto sax
Kevin Moehringer – trombone
Mike Irwin – trumpet
Nathan Rawls – tuba
Okai Haiti – djembe
Kevin Raczka – drums
“kick-ass dance music…that brushes up against psychedelia…with shots of funky brass juice” 
– all-about-jazz-ny

7. The Energizers at the COMA Benefit Festival

Shakira’s percussionist Ravish Momin www.ravishmomin.com
Iranian saxophone sensation and leader of THE TEHRAN-DAKAR BROTHERS‘ Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi www.myspace.com/sohrabsaadat
New York’s most in demand session trumpeter Lex Samu www.lexsamu.com
Stumblebum Brass Band founding member and tuba player Jesse Dulman www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW9HfTX9jlw

Date: Sunday June 6, 2010
Time: 6pm – 11pm
Venue: ABC No Rio (156 Rivington Street between Norfolk and Suffolk, Lower East Side. F train to Delancey)
Ticket: sliding scale $5 to $20
Genre: Jazz/World/improve

8. The Energizers

Date: Friday June 11, 2010
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Brooklyn Wine Exchange (138 Court Street off Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn. A,C,F train to Jay Street Boro Hall)
Ticket: no cover
Genre: Jazz/World/improve