Monthly Archives: May 2013

Music listings – 5/6 through 5/12

1. Craig Taborn Trio

Date:  Monday, May 6, 2013
Time:  8pm
Venue: The Roulette (509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217)
Ticket: $20
Genre: jazz

Craig Taborn, piano
Thomas Morgan, double bass
Gerald Cleaver, drums

“[Taborn’s Chants]… confirms his standing as an inspired bandleader-composer, one of the smartest and slipperiest in his peer group” –The New York Times

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Event Review: Fred Ho – a Night with the Dragon. Film Screening & Book Signing at Museum of Chinese in America

20130425_MOCA_HO_v4Date: April 25, 2013
Venue: Museum of Chinese In America (NY)
Event review by Dawoud Kringle and video by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

When someone lays claim to the title of “Dragon,’ it is automatically assumed that they can back it up, or else. Fred Ho backs it up.

Ho cuts a flamboyant figure; a large and powerfully built man who wears clothing of his own design, Ho is a true renaissance man. He is a saxophonist, composer, bandleader, playwright, writer, and social activist.

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Concert review:…Dub Trio is killing it!

Date: Monday, April 22, 2013
Venue: Rockwood Music Hall (NY)
Concert review and video by Ancelmo James (soundcloud)

This past Monday night I had the privilege of seeing, in my eyes, one of the most talented and impressive bands that continues to push the frontiers of sonic soundscaping. Since the band’s inception in 2004 the Dub Trio has evolved stylistically from what they have, in at least one way coined, “a live dub experiment” to some of the heaviest, blisteringly fierce, low-end violent beauty these ears have ever had the pleasure of hearing.

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