1. Evolving Music: FIVE / Freedom Band / Tatsuya Nakatani Project
Date: Monday, June 23, 2014
Time: 7:30pm to 11pm
Venue: Clemente Soto Velez Center (107 Suffolk St, New York, NY 10002)
Tickets: $11 per set
Genre: jazz/improv
7:30PM – 8:30PM – FIVE
Steve Swell – trombone
Thomas Heberer – cornet
Yoni Kretzmer – tenor sax
Max Johnson – double bass
Chad Taylor – drums
8:45PM – 9:45PM – Tatsuya Nakatani Project
10:00PM – 11:00PM – Yuko Fujiyama’s Freedom Band
Yuko Fujiyama – piano
Daniel Carter – reeds
William Parker – double bass
Newman Taylor Baker – drum
2. Andrea Wolper Trio
Date: Monday, June 23, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: Quinn’s (330 Main Street, Beacon, New York 12508)
Tickets: donation
Genre: jazz/vocal jazz
“A savvy, expressive singer with impeccable taste in collaborators.”
– Time Out New York
AW Trio: Andrea Wolper on vocals, Michael Howell on guitar & Ken Filiano on bass.
3. MUSCULAR / EXTANT / JOVIAN DRIFTS / GREEM JELLYFISH
Date: Monday, June 23, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: The Ho_se (28 Lawton St., Brooklyn NY)
Tickets: $10
Genre: electronics/noise/indie rock/avant pop
*MUSCULAR
www.bratpit.us
**EXTANT
www.soundcloud.com/
***JOVIAN DRIFTS
www.joviandrifts.bandcamp.
****GREEM JELLYFISH
www.soundcloud.com/
+ COMADROME DJ
www.soundcloud.com/
4. Joanie Leeds & The Nightlights ‘Good Egg’ CD Release at Madison SQ Kids
Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Time: 10:30am
Venue: Madison Square Park (E 23rd St at Madison Ave, New York, New York 10010)
Ticket: free
Genre: kids music/indie rock
Joanie Leeds and the Nightlights is the top female led, nationally touring kindie-rock band. With each interactive, high energy performance, Joanie proves to young girl and boys across the country that girls can rock, too! Joanie is an award winning performer winning best CD of the year with People Magazine, Parents Magazine, and The Washington Post. Join Joanie Leeds and the Nightlights in MSP for the official launch of their sixth album, Good Egg. – See more at: http://www.madisonsquarepark.org/things-to-do/calendar/mad-sq-kids-joanie-leeds-and-the-nightlights#sthash.XT3xZzjG.dpuf
5. Jazz for Curious Listeners: Who is Billie Holiday?
Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Time: 7pm
Venue: The National Jazz Museum in Harlem (104 E 126th St, New York, New York 10035)
Ticket: free
Genre: jazz
There have been two major shows dedicated to this Harlem legend in just the past year – why? There were many jazz singers in the 1930’s and 40’s, but none have been remotely as alluring and influential as Lady Day, as she was known. Diana Ross’s portrayal of her in the 1972 film Lady Sings The Blues helped cement the tragic side of Holiday’s life in the public’s memory. Join us for a walk on the bright side of Holiday’s early years as we celebrate her indisputable musical genius.
6. JC Sanford Orchestra Brooklyn CD Release + Ben Kono Group
Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: ShapeShifter Lab (18 Whitwell Pl, between Carroll St & 1st St, Brooklyn, NY 11215, 646-820-9452)
Ticket: $10
Genre: jazz/jazz orchstra
Hey folks. It’ll be a great pleasure to share this evening with my good friend and amazing woodwindist/composer Ben Kono. Here’s your chance to check us both out in Brooklyn. We’ll be celebrating the release of the JC Sanford Orchestra’s new CD “Views from the Inside.” CD’s will be available for sale, and all attendees will get a free download card from Whirlwind Recordings Ltd over 39 tracks from great artists on the label. Ben will be performing music from his recently commissioned works from Chamber Music America. And ShapeShifter Lab is celebrating it’s 2nd year of action all month! A special night of music, for sure!
JC Sanford Orchestra
JC Sanford – composer, conductor, trombone Satoshi Takeishi – percussion
Jacob Garchik – accordion
Tom Beckham – vibraphone
Dave Spier and Matt Holman – trumpet, flügelhorn
Alex Mastrando – F horn
Mark Patterson – Tenor trombone
Jeff Nelson – tuba, bass trombone
Dan Willis – soprano sax, flute, piccolo, oboe
Ben Kono – alto sax, flute, clarinet, English horn
Chris Bacas – tenor sax, clarinet
Kenny Berger – contra-alto clarinet, bassoon, alto flute
Aidan O’Donnell – bass
Lauren Riley-Rigby – cello
Meg Okura – violin
Ben Kono Group
Ben Kono – woodwinds
Pete McCann – guitar
Kermit Driscoll – bass
Mike Holober – piano
Satoshi Takeishi – percussion
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7. Carte Blanche & Miss Ida Blue
Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Time: 11pm
Venue: Drom (85 Avenue A, NY, NY 10009, 212- 777-1157)
Ticket: $10
Genre: Gypsy jazz/jazz/chanson
6-piece jazz ensemble Carte Blanche keeps vintage standards white-hot with classic French, Latin and American jazz standards from the 1920s, 30s and 40s.
Carte Blanche has become a familiar late-night act. The 6-piece ensemble in white silk and sequins has gathered a following who love them for their look as much as their commitment to preserving the standards of a bygone era. Lead vocalist Cristina Kaminis gives the group a sound in the tradition of jazz greats Edith Piaf, Ella Fitzgerald, and Lola Beltran. But as effortlessly as Kaminis transitions from classics of chanson realiste-era Paris to Brazil’s sultry bossa novas, her native Mexico shines through on the bands Cuban son tracks, and the danceable, percussion-driven dance rhythms of vintage Colombian cumbia.
Miss Ida Blue is a femaleled brothel blues group with its core emanating from the rich and roaring coos of Brooklyn born Miss Ida herself. With support from members of “Woody Allen’s Jazz Band” and the Boardwalk Empire orchestra, “Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks”, you’ll hear blues as a drunk, raunchy, and illicit work of art.
8. Music from NY Underground: Lucas Collins, Nonoko Yoshida Trio & The Rascal Trio
Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Time: 8:30pm
Venue: Freddys Bar (627 5th Ave at 17th Street – one block from the Prospect Avenue R-stop, Brklyn, N.Y. 1215)
Ticket: $10
Genre: jazz
8:30pm Lucas Collins, Nonoko Yoshida Trio (Lucas Collins-drums / percussion, Nonoko Yoshida-saxophone and bassist (TBA)
Lucas Collins is a drummer originally from Indianapolis, IN. He engaged Chicago’s tightly knit improvising community before moving to Brooklyn in 2013. Almost immediately upon arriving out east, he began learning the music of the Haitian Vodou community, performing in ceremonies and local events. On this night he will be playing with alto saxophonist Nonoko Yoshida.
10pm The Rascal Trio – Michael Lytle, Bass Clarinet and analogue electronic music,
Eyal Maoz, Guitar and Andrew Drury, Drums and percussion
MICHAEL LYTLE (aka elewhale), MA, University of Iowa, has been a New Music Improvisor since 1968. He has performed with William Parsons, Karl Berger, George Cartwright, Garette List, David Moss, John Zorn, Nick Didkovsky, Hans Burgener, Martin Schutz, Gerry Hemingway, Mark Dresser, Eyal Maoz, Mari Kimura, Robert Dick, Denman Maroney, Kyoko Kitamura, Kathleen Supove, Weasel Walter and has been involved in over 30 recordings since the 5* rated Iowa Ear Music of 1976. In solo, projects with Karl Berger and Hans Burgener, as a member of Nick Didkovsky’s band “Dr. Nerve” and a co-founder with Didkovsky & Hemingway of “Swim This”, he has played in festivals and venues all over the world. An early Electronic Music composer, Lytle invented the set of totally unique methods of clarinet family sonic modulation and performance, called the “most radical of his generation” by Joachim Berendt.
9. Acupuncture and Didgeridoo Sound Bath
Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Time: 7pm – 9pm
Venue: Golden Drum (97 Green St Apt G24,Brooklyn, New York 11222)
Ticket: $54
Genre: didgeridoo music
Join Brooklyn Acupuncture Project’s Sarah Chase and Didge Project’s AJ Block for this very special event, as we dive into the connections of sound, energy, community, and love. Participants will receive an acupuncture treatment accompanied by live healing music. All participants will be asked to sign a liability waiver. No prior experience with acupuncture is necessary.
SARAH CHASE, L.Ac. has a master’s degree in Oriental Medicine (2005) and is nationally certified in Acupuncture, Chinese Herbology, and Shiatsu massage. She studied for three years at the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine in Portland, Oregon where she completed a pilot study proposal on the treatment of long-term effects of Lyme Disease using Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine. She then spent one year in China, studying with acupuncturists, herbalists, and qigong practitioners in Jiangxi and Yunnan provinces. She continues her course of study in the Five Element tradition and Shen/Hammer pulse diagnosis with Lonny Jarret LAc.; and works in South and Central America with traditional healers and their communities. Sarah founded the Brooklyn Acupuncture Project in 2007.
AJ BLOCK is a didgeridoo player and teacher inspired by music, yoga and spirituality. As co-founder of the New York didgeridoo awareness organization Didge Project, AJ has built his work around the integration of sound and healing. Performing in a wide range of settings, AJ brings his music to healing events, large-scale meditative gatherings, festivals and dance parties. As a teacher AJ primarily works with individuals who have come to the didgeridoo as a tool for healing. AJ is a member of the Golden Drum community and is devoted to the cause of peace.
10. Sleepthief
Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: Greenwich House Music School (46 Barrow Street, New York, New York 10014, 212-242-4770)
Ticket: $15
Genre: jazz/improv
Two New York avant favorites – saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock and drummer Tom Rainey – join with British pianist Liam Noble to play the Sound It Out series as the trio Sleepthief.
11. WEIRD WEDNESDAYS
Date: Thursday, June 26, 2014
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Barbes (376 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY)
Ticket: $10
Genre: performing music & sounds on invented instruments
Terry Dame presents an ongoing monthly music series dedicated to instrument inventors and players of found objects and other musical oddities. Dame is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and instrument builder and leader of the invented instrument ensemble Electric Junkyard Gamelan. Terry Dame’s Weird Wednesdays did start on a Wednesday, but to make it weirder, it will be now happen every last Thursday of the month…because Thursday is the weirdest Wednesday of all.
On Thursday, June 26th we will celebrate weird invented controllers with guest artist Dj Shakey aka Julie Covello playing a set on her Voltaxe controller. Also a set by yours truly, chief weirdo Terry Dame and Lee Free on all sorts of weird controllers, drums and whatnot. It’s a weird dance party and we are gonna fold up the chairs and get down. It’s queer pride month so bring your disco balls and dancing shoes and come get weird with us.
12. Ingrid Laubrock Octet & Anti-House
Date: Thursday, June 26, 2014
Time: 8pm & 10pm
Venue: The Stone (is located at the corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street)
Ticket: $15 each set
Genre: jazz/improv
Anti-House with Ingrid Laubrock (ts,ss), Mary Halvorson (g), Kris Davis (p), John Hébert (b), Tom Rainey (d) 8pm, all new music.
Ingrid Laubrock Octet with Ingrid Laubrock (ts,ss), Ralph Alessi (tpt), Ted Reichman (acc),Chris Hoffman (cello), Mary Halvorson (g), Kris Davis (p), Drew Gress (b),Tom Rainey (d), 10pm,CD release.
13. Fronteras: Kuenta i Tambu / Pinata Protest / Sergio Mendoza Y La Orkesta /Helado Negro/ SLV/ BelO/Curupira/ Beto Jamaica
Date: Friday, June 27 through Sunday 29, 2014
Time: 7:30pm to 11pm
Venue: South Street Seaport (199 Water Street, 31st Floor, New York, New York 10038)
Tickets: free
Genre: various roots music
From an accordion fronted Tex-Mex punk band to socially conscious Haitian songs, and from ambient folk and electronica to the NYC debut of the king of Colombian vallenato and cumbia, the series travels the crossroads, the blurs and the beats of both traditional and contemporary sounds.
Line up:
6/27 @ 4:00pm
K i T (Kuenta i Tambu) PInATA PROTEST, SLV, Helado Negro
6/28 @ 5:30pm
Curupira Musica, BelO Haiti
6/29 @ 1:30pm
Sergio Mendoza Y La Orkesta, Alberto “Beto” Jamaica – Rey Vallenato 2006
+Block party to follow 6pm
Turntables on the Hudson reunion + Manhattan Samba
14. Gary Lucas & Gods and Monsters – 25th Anniversary feat. Ernie Brooks, Jason Candler, and Billy Ficca
Date: Friday, June 27, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012, ph: 212- 505-3474)
Ticket: $
Genre:
Longtime NYC avant-supergroup GARY LUCAS & GODS AND MONSTERS celebrate their 25th Anniversary with a special concert here at Le Poisson Rouge.
Lucas is renowned worldwide as “one of the best and most original guitarists in America” (Rolling Stone), and his band Gods and Monsters have been called “an underground rock fan’s dream team” (The New Yorker).
Their last album “The Ordeal of Civility” (Knitting Factory) was produced by Jerry Harrison and received superlative reviews, including 4 Stars in MOJO. The band features Lucas plus Ernie Brooks (Modern Lovers), Billy Ficca (Television), and Jason Candler (Hungry March Band). Sitting in will be Kaki King, Felice Rosser and Mor Mendel + vocalist Jann Klose and Mike Edison on theremin.
15. Aida Brandes + beats & horns
Date: Sunday, June 29, 2014
Time: 5pm – 6;45pm
Venue: Somethin’ Jazz Club (212 E 52nd St, New York, NY 10022, 212-371-7657)
Ticket: $10
Genre: jazz
AIDA BRANDES is a singer and composer of German and Japanese origin. She also plays piano and arranges music and leads her own group which features Aida’s personal take on jazz and bebop standards, as well as original material and a nod to hip hop.
Featuring Atsushi Ouchi (as), Danny Lipsitz (ts), Kevin Hailey (b), Agustin Grasso (d) and special guests Lamont Hampton (tp), Anthony Thomaz (v) and Gary Pierce (gt).
16. Beyond Flute
Date: Sunday, June 29, 2014
Time: 7pm – 9pm
Venue: Parkside Lounge (317 East Houston Street @ Attorney St.)
Ticket: $10
Genre: jazz
Beyond Flute is:
Cheryl Pyle – flute ,Bern Nix -guitar. Francois Grillot – bass, and Newman Taylor Baker – washboard /percussion
17. HARMOLODIC MONK Album Release Event!
Date: Sunday, June 29, 2014
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Whynot Jazz Room (14 Christopher Street, New York, New York 10014, 646- 756-4145)
Ticket: $t.b.a.
Genre: jazz
Harmolodic Monk is matt Lavelle (trumpet, alto clarinet, flugelhorn) and John Pietaro (vibes, percussion). The pair will be performing a set of selections from their Unseen Rain Records debut album, one which explores some of the greatest compositions of Thelonious Monk by way of the expansive visions of Ornette Coleman. According to the album’s producer, Jack DeSalvo:
“In the work of both Ornette Coleman and Thelonious Monk, the dichotomy of ancient, pre-western approaches and extreme modernism live side-by-side so comfortably that one mistakes one for the other. Like the story that Ornette told of performing in a psychiatric hospital; once he started playing and looked out into the audience he couldn’t distinguish between the doctors and the patients.
18. Either/Or
Date: Sunday, June 29, 2014
Time: 3pm
Venue: The Issue Project Room (22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn, New York 11201)
Ticket: $15
Genre: contemporary music
A special presentation of Morton Feldman’s rarely heard 4 1/2 hour epic, For Philip Guston (1984), culminates the three night Either/Or Spring Festival and represents Either/OR’s tenth anniversary concert. The ensemble has championed Feldman’s music for the past decade and his late trios for flute, piano, and percussion are among the works closest to the heart of the Either/Or’s repertoire. This will be a rare performance of one of the true masterworks of late 20th century experimentalism, balancing the sheer timbral beauty of this unique ensemble with virtuosic interplay and Feldman’s inimitable sense of scale.
Richard Carrick, piano and celeste
Margaret Lancaster, flutes
David Shively, percussion
Since 2004, Either/Or has been at the forefront of New York’s contemporary music scene, programming new and recent works for unconventional ensembles or soloists that are rarely heard elsewhere. Equally informed in American experimentalism and in the European avant-garde, Either/Or collaborates with emerging and established artists from a broad aesthetic spectrum. Performances throughout the Northeast, including Philadelphia Museum of Art, ICA Boston, Miller Theatre, The Kitchen, and venues across NYC, as well as frequent appearances at experimental music venues such as The Stone, Roulette, and ISSUE Project Room.
