1. Adam Larson Quintet CD “SIMPLE BEAUTY
Date: Monday, March 18, 2013
Time: 8pm
Venue: ShapeShifter Lab (18 Whitwell Pl, between Carroll St & 1st St,Brooklyn, NY 11215, 646-820-9452)
Ticket: $15
Genre: jazz
8:30 – Adam Larson with: Adam Larson- saxophone, Nils Weinhold- guitar, Robert Langslet- piano, Harish Raghavan- bass and Jason Burger- drums
Originally from Normal, IL, Saxophonist-Composer and Rico Reeds Performing Artist Adam Larson, began playing saxophone at the age of 11. At age 19 he was described by critic Howard Reich of The Chicago-Tribune as “ a player for whom the word ‘prodigious’ was coined.” Larson has garnered numerous awards that showcase his abilities as a performer and a composer. Among those was being selected as a member of the 2009 National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts Jazz Fellows Sextet, receiving the Silver Award for Jazz Saxophone.
2. Aural Dystopia Presents: GERALD FORD DO YOUR THING NIGHT – FUK YA HARDCORE IMPROV ALL NITE
Date: Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Time: 8pm
Venue: JACK ( 505 ½ Waverly Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11238, between Fulton – Atlantic in Clinton Hill, C or G train to Clinton-Washington)
Ticket: $10
Genre: electronics/contemporary/imporov/free music
Line up:
Joe Merolla[cello]/Ron Anderson[guitar]/Nonoko Yoshida[sax]/Kenny Grohowski[drums] – 8pm
Brandon Seabrook[guitar]/Stuart Popejoy[bass+keys]/Kevin Shea[drums] —- 9pm
Andrew Hock[guitar]/Andrew Smiley[guitar]/Chris Pitsiokos[sax]/Nick Podgurski[drums] – 10pm
Louise DE Jensen[sax]/Mike Pride[drums] – 11pm
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3. Welf Dorr Unit
Date: Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Time: 9pm
Venue: Nublu (62 Ave C, between 4th and 5th Street in the Lower East Side)
Ticket: $10
Genre: jazz/improv
On his steady search for the right balance between “free” and “groove” Welf Dorr‘s composing and (alto) playing are mixing influences from the jazz of the 60’s with contemporary elements from hip hop, drum&bass and world music. Originally from Munich (Germany) he studied at Berklee before he moved 1995 to New York. The members are: Dave Ross (guitar), Dmitry Ishenko (bass), Joe Hertenstein (drums) and Welf Dorr (alto sax, bass clarinet)…a free jazz flight touching down into funk and rock…
Welf Dorr Unit – ‘Big Tree’ – Clemente Soto Velez Center – April 9, 2012 from Don Mount on Vimeo.
4. The Nevermind Orchestra
Date: Thursday, March 21, 2013
Time: 8pm
Venue: Spike Hill (184 & 186 Bedford Avenue, Williamsburg, NY)
Ticket: t.b.a.
Genre: brass indie rock
The Nevermind Orchestra uses the raw power of a New Orleans-style brass band to reinterpret the raw power of Nirvana. You will hear Nirvana in a way you’ve never heard before, and we guarantee you it will excite you just as much as Kurt, Dave, and Krist did back in the day.
5. Theatre Group Dzieci A Passion According to St. Matthew
Date: Friday, March 22, 2013
Time: 8pm
Venue: The Firehouse Space (246 Frost St., East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211)
Ticket: $10
Genre: theatre
Last Easter, 2012, Dzieci was invited to create a Passion for Holy Week at The Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Connecticut, enacted by a small group of nuns from that community.
The experience was life changing for all involved, and has inspired Dzieci to refine this sacred liturgy to its essence, in order to create a ritual not bound by any one religion.
A Passion According to St. Matthew
Theatre Group Dzieci (djyeh-chee), founded in 1997 by Matt Mitler, uses techniques garnered from Jerzy Grotowski and the Polish Theatre Laboratory, Peter Brook, humanistic psychology, and ritual forms derived from Native American and Eastern spiritual disciplines in a search for the “sacred” through the medium of theatre.
Dzieci balances work on performance with work of service, and is committed to Art as a path for transformation. The company has been presented in schools, hospitals, and houses of worship, including The Cathedral Saint John the Divine, where their signature piece, Fools Mass, has been an annual event for the past twelve seasons.
6. Composer/Choreographer Series – Jessica Ray & Matt Mehlan “Re preez”
Date: Saturday, March 23, 2013
Time: 8pm
Venue: The Roulette (509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217)
Ticket: $15
Genre: dance/performance/sound – multi media art
“Re preez”, a new collaboration between Matt Mehlan & Jessica Ray exploits the disintegration of source material in recorded and live mediums. In this new project, the audience experiences a clear visual form mutate in time with live video transforming and presenting multiple viewing of the event, while the audience sees the same event from a radically different perspective. Jessica and Matt are joined by long-time collaborators Jessica Cook (performance) and Megan Byrne (lighting/production).
Jessica Ray is a Detroit/Brooklyn-based dance artist. Her work, whether as a dancer, a collaborator, or a choreographer is heavily influenced by a long standing improvisational practice. Her work and collaborations have been seen at Movement Research events, the Chocolate Factory, the Flea Theater, Food for Thought at Danspace Project, Roulette Intermedium, Rooftop Dance, and Pieter PASD. In April 2012 she was a participating artist in the first annual Bitch Creek artist residency with fellow artists Megan Byrne, Liliana Dirks-Goodman and Laurie Berg. Jessica has been a moderator for Dance Conversations at the Flea, and was a member of The Adventure, part of Danspace Project’s Platform 2010 curated by Trajal Harrell. She has performed in the work of Nina Winthrop, Megan Byrne, Elizabeth Ward, Renée Archibald, Charlotte Gibbons, Linsey Bostwick, and Christopher Williams. She has taught improvisation at Bill Young’s 100 Grand, Movement Research, CLASSCLASSCLASS, Yale’s Graduate Student Organization, and Wayne State University, and holds an MFA from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Matthew Mehlan is a musician, songwriter, composer, and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. Originally from Chicago, he studied Technology in Music and Related Arts at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. Since 2003 he has been performing and recording with his band Skeletons, “…one of the few contemporary bands who can legitimately be called ‘original’.”(Xlr8r). Skeletons have toured the world and released albums on Shinkoyo (the art and music group Matthew co-founded), Ghostly International, Tomlab, Sockets, and Crammed Discs. Matt has collaborated with hip hop group Nine 11 Thesaurus on their album “Ground Zero Generals,” the international “supergroup” Congotronics Vs. Rockers (with members of Konono No. 1, Kasai Allstars, Deerhoof, Wildbirds and Peacdrums, and Juana Molina), and the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra – which premiered his piece “Canvas” earlier this year.
Composer/Choreographer Series is part of Dance Roulette. Dance Roulette is made possible by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
7. Darling Del Oeste
Date: Saturday, March 23, 2013
Time: 11pm
Venue: Nublu (62 Ave C, between 4th and 5th Street in the Lower East Side)
Ticket: $10
Genre: electronic Cumbian music and Argentinian folk music
Darling Del Oeste is a collective working to create raw, minimal and far flung sound scapes. Dynamically fusing elements of South American musical traditions – cumbia villera, fandango, chacarera – with all that is urban, electronic, dance-able and cosmic.
8. Iva Bittova
Date: Sunday, March 24, 2013
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012, Phone: 212- 505-3474)
Ticket: $20
Genre: ‘folk’ music, contemporary music, improv
Czech singer/player/composer Iva Bittová has said. “The violin is a mirror reflecting my dreams and imagination. I believe there are fundamentals to my performance, such as the music’s vibration and resonance between violin and my voice.” That relationship is beautifully explored on this album – recorded at Auditorio Radiotelevisione svizzera, Lugano, and produced by Manfred Eicher – which expresses the essence of Bittova’s unique and extraordinary solo work. These modestly-titled ‘Fragments’ resist definition. An idiosyncratic ‘folk’ music, contemporary composition, improvisation, any and all of these may apply from moment to moment. Bittová’s music is a living, changing thing: “Deciding on a name for my style of music is far from over yet”. Iva Bittová was previously showcased in 2007 on the widely-acclaimed ECM album Mater by composer Vladimír Godár; this marks her solo debut for the label.
9. Revive Music Presents: Generations of the Beat Festival (2nd day)
Date: Sunday, March 24, 2013
Time: 11pm
Venue: Drom (85 Avenue A, NY, NY 10009, 212- 777-1157)
Ticket: $15
Genre: jazz
The full depth of the festival lies in the complete lineup including the likes of Mark Whitfield Jr., Joe Dyson, E.J. Strickland, Kimberley Thompson, Jeff “Tain” Watts, Lenny White, Andrew Cyrille with Oliver Lake, and more. There aren’t too many chances to see this much history in one room, so be sure to come celebrate it with us!
