1. Radio Zero Series
Date: Monday, April 29, 2013
Time: 8 pm
Venue: Sycamore (1118 Cortelyou Rd, Brooklyn, near the Q train)
Ticket: $10
Genre: jazz/improv
8 pm: UNATTENDED PARKING
Nicolas Letman:compo, bass, Tony Malaby:sax, Tyshawn Sorey:drums, Bobby Avey:Rhodes
7 pm: Patrick Breiner:reeds/Devin Drobka:drums duo
9:30 pm: Juan-Pablo Carletti Trio: Juan-Pablo Carletti, Tony Malaby:sax, Chris Hoffman:cello
2. Ingrid Laubrock
Date: Monday, April 29, 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:
JACK’s monthly series of experimental improv, curated by Kevin Reilly.
8 pm: Ingrid Laubrock, solo saxophone
9.30pm: Ingrid Laubrock, Sean Conly (bass), Tom Rainey (drums)
3. Cyro Baptista
Date: Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Time: 8pm & 10pm
Venue: The Stone (is located at the corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street)
Ticket: $10
Genre: improv/jazz
8pm – Cyro Baptista & Banquet of the Spirits + Jorge Continentino
10pm – Cyro Baptista (percussion), Brian Marsella (keys), Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz (bass, oud), Tim Keiper (drums) and Jorge Continentino (sax, flute)
4. 2013 Red Bull Music Academy, Undead Music Festival: A Night Of Improvised Round Robin Duets: Red Bull Music Academy Special In association with Undead Music
Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Time: 8pm
Venue: Brooklyn Masonic Temple (317 Clermont Ave, Brooklyn, NY)
Ticket: buy
Genre: no genre/improv
The format? Simple. One musician starts a solo improvisation lasting five minutes. Another musician then joins him for five minutes of duo improvisation. After those five minutes, musician #1 leaves the stage and musician #3 joins musician #2 for another five minutes, and so on and so forth for two hours. The music? Expect the unexpected. A once-in-a-lifetime experience with 20+ artists from jazz, electronics and everything in between, curated by the Red Bull Music Academy, with Search & Restore and BOOM Collective, the creative minds behind the acclaimed Undead Music Festival.
With ?uestlove, Andrew Bird, Andrew W.K., Bernie Worrell, DJ Spinna, Don Byron, Dosh, Erik Friedlander, Glenn Kotche, James Chance, Joe Lovano, JULIA HOLTER, Kim Gordon, Mary Halvorson, Matana Roberts, Robert Glasper, Roy Hargrove, Thundercat, Vijay Iyer, Jameszoo.
Undead Music Festival presents 3 Nights of Martin Dosh @ Shapeshifter Lab!
Time: 8 and 9pm
Ticket: $15 per night. $30 pass for 3 nights.
THURSDAY, MAY 2nd:
FRIDAY MAY 3rd
SATURDAY MAY 4th
5. META
Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Time: 7pm – 8pm
Venue: ShapeShifter Lab (18 Whitwell Pl, between Carroll St & 1st St,Brooklyn, NY 11215, 646-820-9452)
Ticket: $10
Genre: oriental jazz
The songwriter, singer and percussionist, META writes spontaneous and sensitive music and defines his work as world songs. “Songs” stands for the form he uses, “world” for the sounds and subsaharian rhythmic backbone as well as the large space he dedicates to improvisation. In order to give shape to his repertoire, Meta called upon accomplished jazz musicians ready to enter in resonance with his singular universe. Meta’s music is a magical blend of musical cultures that introduces a collection of songs charged with emotional depth and infused with the energy of his performances.
Line up: Meta (voc), Dan Pugach (dr), Francois Moutin (b) and Thomas Enhco (key).
6. Brooklyn Rider & Ljova and the Kontraband
Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Time: 8pm
Venue: Littlefield (622 Degraw St, Brooklyn, New York 11217)
Ticket: $15
Genre:nu chamber music
Brooklyn Rider, the string quartet credited for “re-creating the 300-year-old form of the string quartet as a vital and creative 21st-century ensemble” by NPR, performs music from their upcoming album, “A Walking Fire”, to be released April 30 on Mercury Classics. Repertoire includes Béla Bartók’s second string quartet, Lev ‘Ljova’ Zhurbin’s “Culai”, an homage to Nicolae Neacșu, the iconic violinist/vocalist of Taraf de Haidouks, and Colin Jacobsen’s “Three Miniatures”, inspired by a 2006 journey to Iran and long-standing friendship with kemancheh virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor.
Opening the concert is Ljova and the Kontraband, a chamber folk ensemble led by composer and violist Lev ‘Ljova’ Zhurbin that fuses swinging Eastern-European and Gypsy melodies, Latin rhythms, jazz-inspired improvisations, and deeply rooted classical forms. Lev’s compositions are inspired by collaborations with artists that include Yo-Yo Ma, Osvaldo Golijov, the Kronos Quartet, and Jay-Z.
7. Wadada Leo Smith’s “Ten Freedom Summers” – Night 1
Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Time: 8pm
Venue: The Roulette (509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217)
Ticket: $20
Genre: jazz/contemporay/video
In a special engagement at Roulette, Wadada Leo Smith presents the moving, epic, and revelatory Ten Freedom Summers in three parts across three consecutive nights, beginning on Wednesday, May 1, and concluding on Friday, May 3.
Ten Freedom Summers is the result of Smith’s many years of research and reflection concerning the philosophical, social, and political history of the United States of America as framed by decisive historical moments from the Civil Rights movement. Hailed in All About Jazz – “As a work of sustained imagination and creation, Ten Freedom Summers has few parallels in the annals of jazz – this 3-night engagement is not to be missed.
The performances of Ten Freedom Summers will feature the Golden Quartet and the Pacifica Coral Reef Ensemble with original imagery by video artist Jesse Gilbert.
- Wadada Leo Smith’s “Ten Freedom Summers” – Night 2
Thursday, May 2, 2013 @ 8:00 pm - Wadada Leo Smith’s “Ten Freedom Summers” – Night 3
Friday, May 3, 2013 @ 8:00 pm
8. SoSaLa
Date: Thursday, May 2, 2013
Time: 9pm – 11pm
Venue: Nublu (62 Avenue C, bet. E. 4th and 5th st., New York, NY 10009)
Ticket: $10
Genre: nu world trash
SoSaLa performing “nu world trashy” music based on desert-Persian-Spanish blues styles and jazzy improvs.
The members are: Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi on sax and vocals, Dave Ross on guitar, Michael Wimberly on drums, djembe & vocals, Bradley Madsen on electric trombone and John Pietaro on vibes. This is the first time that SoSaLa is without an oud and bass player. (Unfortunately Damon Banks on bass and Brian Prunka on oud and guitar left the band recently due to their commitments to their own solo projects.)
SoSaLa will be playing a 90 minutes long set performing the hit songs from the new CD SoSaLa “Nu World Trash”: “New Welcome Iran”, “Sad Sake,” “Happy April Fool’s Day”, and new songs.
SoSaLa’s purpose is to make you aware that music is free of any dogmas, rules and any kind of discrimination and injustice. For this reason SoSaLa has been supporting the musicians union Local 802 “Justice For Jazz Artists” movement.
9. Craig Harris and The Harlem Night Songs Big Band
Date: Thursday, May 2, 2013
Time: 9 & 10:30pm
Venue: MIST Harlem (46 West 116th Street, between Malcolm X Blvd. and Fifth Avenue, 646-688-5886)
Ticket: $15
Genre: jazz/big band jazz
Trombonist/composer Craig Harris and The Harlem Night Songs Big Band playing lush, tight arrangements with room for expressive solos, creating that special sound where composition and improvisation intersect and become one.
The line up:
Craig Harris—Trombone
Richard Fairfax—Reeds
Jay Rodriguez—Reeds
James Stewart—Reeds
Eddie Allen—Trumpet
Franz Hackl—Trumpet
Pete Drungle—Keyboards
Fred Cash—Bass
Tony Lewis—Drums
Milton Suggs—Vocals
10. Maroon the Implacable: The Collected Writings of Russell Maroon Shoatz
Date: Friday, May 3, 2013
Time: 7pm
Venue: The DiMenna Center for Classical Music (450 W 37th Street, New York, NY 10018)
Ticket: $20.00 (includes a copy of Maroon the Implacable: The Collected Writings of Russell Maroon Shoatz)
Genre: book signing and music/poetry
Featured speakers
Soffiyah Elijah, former Harvard Law Professor and anti-incarceration activist;
Ben Chaney, brother of martyred student activist James Chaney
Featuring performers
Gary Bartz, Grammy-award winning saxophonist
Rebel Diaz, acclaimed hip-hop group and community activists
Judith Malina, founder of the Living Theatre
Jamal Jospeh and IMPACT Repertory Theatre Performance Company, a renowned youth activist-performance group;
EmCee Majesty, rapper and collaborator with Immortal Technique
11. Alaturka: Hasan lsakkut Ensemble LIVE
Date: Saturday, May 4, 2013
Time: 11:30pm
Venue: Drom (85 Avenue A, NY, NY 10009, Ph: 212- 777-1157)
Ticket: $20
Genre: Turkish pops
As a composer and multi-instrumentalist, Hasan lsakkut has worked with Brian Keane, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Simon Shaheen and Richie Havens. His song “I Love You” was included in the famous CD Buddha Bar Volume 2. With his debut solo CD KIBAR, composer, kanunist, violinist Hasan Isakkut presents a stunning instrumental program of original compositions which evoke moods of the Middle East Jazz, New Age, and Classical Music.
12. Ceramic Dog ‘Your Turn’ CD Release Show, presented by Undead Music w/ Hubble
Date: Sunday, May 5, 2013
Time: 8pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012, Phone: 212- 505-3474)
Ticket: $18
Genre: free style/free rock/noise
Five years after their critically acclaimed debut release, Ceramic Dog, the power trio featuring Marc Ribot (guitar), Shahzad Ismaily (bass/electronics) and Ches Smith (drums), is back with the hard-hitting tour de force Your Turn (Northern Spy, April 30, 2013). Time Out New York called Ceramic Dog Ribot’s “rawest band in ages” while the New York Times wrote, “The musicianship is intense regardless of the subtext, with all three players hurling themselves into their effort.” Singer/actress Eszter Balint guest appears on the album, as does experimental music guru Arto Lindsay.
13. Jonah Rosenberg: Compositions
Date: Sunday, May 5, 2013
Time: 9:30pm
Venue: The Firehouse Space (246 Frost St., East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211)
Ticket: $10
Genre: improv/jazz
Blaise Siwula – Alto Sax, Aleks Karjaka – Bass Clarinet, Martha Cargo – Flute, Emma Alabaster – doublebass and Jonah Rosenberg on piano/compositions.
A multi-disciplinary ensemble of improvisors and contemporary music trained musicians that perform improvisation driven compositions with some notated and some completely free elements.
14. Renegade Sufi (featuring Cody Rahn, Holly Cordero, and special guests)
Date: Sunday, May 5, 2013
Time: 9pm – 11pm
Venue: Nublu (62 Avenue C, bet. E. 4th and 5th st., New York, NY 10009)
Ticket: $10
Genre: sitar-based electronic jazz
Renegade Sufi plays a singular blend of sitar-based electronic jazz. Led by multi-instrumentalist and composer Dawoud—who has performed and recorded with such artists as Lauryn Hill, James Blood Ulmer, and Nona Hendryx—the group expands upon classical raga with otherworldly electronics, hypnotic drum loops, and free-jazz-style improvisation to produce deep, trancelike grooves. He will be joined by Cody Rahn, Holly Cordero (bass), and special guests.
