Monthly Archives: October 2011

Music festival report: The Brooklyn Independent Music Fest 2011

Date: September 16th to 18th, 2011
Venue: Littlefield (Brooklyn, NY)
Text by Jim Hoey
Video intererview and first two videos shots by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

The Brooklyn Independent Music Fest took place at Littlefields in Brooklyn, near Gowanus, and for 3 days over 60 bands took to the two small stages to showcase a hell of a lot of pop,blues, soul, rap, and old timey music. This matches the borough’s return to oyster bars, tile floor restaurants, brick oven pizza shops, and speakeasy-looking venues that sell absinthe. With this festival though, the old and the new vaguely mixed on the stages, followed each other, and generally, what the promoters were going for, was a complete celebration of all the different musical elements that find their way to Brooklyn.

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Music listings – 10/3 through 10/9

1. The Quiet City

Date: Monday, October 3, 2011
Time: 8pm – 11pm (3 sets)
Venue: The Counting Room (44 Berry St. @ N. 11th, Brooklyn, NY)
Ticket: free
Genre: Jazz

The Quiet City pays tribute to one of New York’s greatest Jazz heroes, the late Michael Brecker.  One of the most prolific and most recorded musicians of all time, Michael Brecker was far more than just one of Jazz music’s greatest innovators.  Recording as a sideman with such artists as Eric Clapton, Herbie Hancock, Joni Mitchell, Frank Zappa and Paul Simon amongst many, many more, Brecker’s performances have reached across all genres of music.  With a catalogue of recordings that reads like a list of music’s all-time greatest hits, there is no doubt that the music world suffered a huge loss when Brecker succumbed to his battle with Lukemia in 2007.  Brecker was 57 years old.  Every Monday beginning October 3rd, The Quiet City will explore the music he recorded both as a bandleader as well as a sideman.

2. Oran Etkin

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