Monthly Archives: February 2011

Music listings – 2/28 through 3/6

1. Hillard Greene IN & OUT ENSEMBLE

Date: Monday, February 28, 2011
Time: 8pm
Venue: the University of the Streets (130 east 7th street. 2nd floor. NY)
Ticket: $10
Genre: Jazz

A night of challanging Jazz featuring Robert Picket – piano, Newman Taylor Baker – drums, Hilliard “Hill” Greene – bass.

2. Superhuman Happiness w. Chico Mann

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Interview: Ravish Momin who gave up the opportunity for a bourgeois life for that of a touring musician!


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Date: 2/22/2011
Location: Brooklyn (NY)

Text and interview by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

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David Fiuczynski Interview: Blowin’ A “Fuze” At BAM Cafe!

Date: January 29, 2011
Venue: Bam Cafe (Brooklyn)

Interviewed by Jim Hoey

Catching up with David Fiuczynski after his recent performance at BAM Cafe was really a treat, since I remember catching his shows at the Knitting Factory and Tonic years ago (before they shut down). I was even more excited to hear that his signature exploration of sound through effects and the jazz-funk idiom was still intact after all these years.

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Saluti a Tutti! Tiptons Saxophone Quartet are touring the US and Europe!

The Tiptones Saxophone Quartet is celebrating the release of our newest beautiful recording, Strange Flower. They perform original compositions and arrangements of world music on saxophones, clarinet, voices and percussion.  With concerts that cover musical territory from jazz, Afro-Cuban to Balkan, klezmer and beyond, the Tiptons create some of the most wild and joyous sounds ever to come out of a sax quartet.

Strange Flower is available through:
* Squidco (http://www.squidco.com/)
* Wayside Music (http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Products/Tiptons-Sax-Quartet—Strange-Flower__Zipa-spc-592.aspx) and
* CDBaby (http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/tiptonssaxquartet).

US Concerts – with Lee “Free” Frisari on drums!
Sat 25 Feb:     Cafe Orwell party, 247 Varet Street New York, NY 11206
Sun 27 Feb:     House Party / Washington DC – if you are in the DC area and would like to come to this please email me!
Wed 02 Mar:    School concert and lecture at the PS 3 Bedford Village School, Brooklyn, NY
Thurs 03 Mar:  Dweck Center for Contemporary Culture, Dwecklectic with The Tiptons @ Brooklyn Public Library / Brooklyn NY – 7pm
Fri 04 Mar:      The Speakeasy under 121 / Providence RI   http://www.myspace.com/local121
Sat 05 Mar:     improvisation workshop at SUNY, New Paltz, NY (exact detail soon!) &  evening gig at Market Market in Rosendale, NY, 9 pm  http://www.marketmarketcafe.com

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