1. William Hooker w. THE DOUBLE QUARTET
Date: Monday, October 20, 2014
Time: 7pm
Venue: ShapeShifter Lab (18 Whitwell Pl, between Carroll St & 1st St, Brooklyn, NY 11215, 646-820-9452)
Ticket: $15
Genre: jazz
The William Hooker Double Quartet which premiered at The David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center will appear – in concert – at Shapeshifter Lab, Brooklyn, NY on October 20th, 2014. Featuring: TAYLOR RYAN, RAS MOSHE, MATT LAVELLE, CRISTIAN AMIGO, SKY STEELE and TOM SZLABINGER.
The group(s) propel themselves with the use of two different types of compositional frameworks, initiated from Mr. Hooker, from the drums.
2. Sarah Bernstein Quartet
Date: Monday, October 20, 2014
Time: 8:30pm
Venue: The Cornelia Street Cafe (29 Cornelia St., NY, NY 10014)
Ticket: $10
Genre: jazz/improv
Sarah Bernstein Quartet adds to the array of unique and fresh projects led by this prolific composer and deft violinist. Deeply melodic, rhythmically sophisticated tunes provide an ideal launchpad for a stellar band, with Kris Davis on piano, Stuart Popejoy on electric bass and Ches Smith on drums.
3. Dream Seed
Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Time: 7:30pm – 9:30pm
Studio: Golden Drum (97 Green St Apt G24,Brooklyn, New York 11222)
Ticket: $20
Genre: Shamanic chanting, overtone singing, Native American songs, indigenous music, didgeridoos…
Dream Seed is a two-hour sound bath hosted by members of Golden Drum and Didge Project. Shamanic chanting, mantras, overtone singing, Native American songs, indigenous music, didgeridoos, crystal singing bowls, bells, gongs, harmoniums, tuning forks and other overtone-emitting instruments are used to create an environment conducive to deep relaxation and inward investigation. Participants are led through guided meditations and sound healing practices designed to harmonize body, mind and spirit.
3. The Mast w. Psychic Twin/The Point and Stranger Cat
Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: Friends And Lovers (641 Classon Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11238)
Ticket: $10
Genre: indie rock/electronica
More about the Mast here:
Concert Review: The Mast – moving into a different realm than it was on their previous release “Wild Poppies.”
Psychic Twin || The Mast || The Point || Stranger Cat
DJ set in the front lounge by Jeaneen Lund!
4. Secret Chiefs 3 w. Cleric
Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Time: 8:30pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012, ph: 212- 505-3474)
Ticket: $25
Genre: oriental-psychedeli-free style music
It’s an extraordinary time for Secret Chiefs 3. Busy like never before. The band just completed a tour of Russia, Israel, the UK and EU. A central piece of this tour was a performance with the Russian Traditional Philharmonic Orchestra of Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. The repertoire consisted mostly of SC3′s music orchestrated by SC3 bandleader Trey Spruance in collaboration with the ensemble and music director to adapt this music to adapt this music to a 61-piece Russian orchestra — that’s balalaikas, domras and bayans, not violins etc. In this event SC3 also became the rock/metal band blended into this ensemble for the performance of some Russian traditional music. It was beautiful! The event was recorded, there is talk of a DVD, and even more exciting, of taking this event outside of Russia.
Hot on the heels of this tour, SC3 embarks now on an extensive 5 week USA/Canada tour in support of their brand new album “Perichoresis”. You can read more about this intense new explosion of music on the attached write-up.
The band configuration of composer/band-leader Trey Spruance (Mr. Bungle, Faith No More), composer/multi-instrumentalist in his own right Toby Drive (Kayo Dot), versatile violinist/trumpeter/guitarist Timba Harris (Estradasphere), master John Zorn-beloved drummer Kenny Grohowski (Dapp Theory, Abraxas) and polymath maestro keyboardist Matt Lebofsky (Moe tarr, Mirthkon) is seasoned beyond all reason, at a peak of music power, with a massive repertoire that can easily span 3 shows without repeating a note (this includes the music John John Zorn assigned SC3 in his Masada series). Astonishingly, if one begins counting from 2007, this tour will see the band passing the 400-show mark! Having amassed an impressive worldwide following, visiting over 40 countries in the last few years, Secret Chiefs 3 shows no signs of slowing down (despite Spruance breaking his foot falling down the stairs in Siberia! ooops!)
Interview: The Secret Chiefs 3′ Trey Spruance dreams of performing in Iran?
5. Natura Morta/Naked Roots Conducive/Trois Gnossiennes
Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Time: 8pm – 11pm
Venue: Panoply Performance Laboratory (104 Meserole Street, Brooklyn, New York 11206)
Ticket: $5-15 suggested donation
Genre: modern music/accoustic sound-sculptures
Natura Morta is an international trio comprising of violist Frantz Loriot, contrabassist Sean Ali and percussionist Carlo Costa. The ensemble is dedicated to exploring musical structures and relationships through collective all-acoustic improvisation. The ensemble creates acoustic sound-sculptures and slow moving sonic landscapes through the use of a variety of strategies. Nontraditional techniques and instrumental preparations are employed by the trio to produce a wide range of timbers. The musical scope of the ensemble stretches from heated silences to relentless drones, to frantic hyperactivity.
Naked Roots Conducive
Natalia Barnatny Steinbach and Valerie Kuehne (Valerie Kuehne is a cross-pollinated work of chaos. Fusing together music, performance art, narrative, and experimental curation.)
“Trois Gnossiennes” by Erik Satie
Played as a jazz head in an ensemble format with lead sheets arranged by Brian McCorkle.
The Case for Bushwick in New Cartography an impassioned rationality by Colleen McCarthy-Smee.
6. Kevin Nathaniel Hylton: Rhythms of Africa
Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Time: 7:30pm – 9:30pm
Studio: Golden Drum (97 Green St Apt G24,Brooklyn, New York 11222)
Ticket: $t.b.a
Genre: African rhythms
Kevin Nathaniel (www.mbirasanctuary.com) is a pioneer on the world music scene for NYC, He was one of the early musicians to introduce New York audiences to the magical sound of the mbira. An internationally celebrated musical inspiration for the new age, meditation, and yoga world, his recordings are available on iTunes and CDbaby. He produces live music events weekly in NYC that encourage peace and global harmony.
7. Renegade Sufi
Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Time: 6pm
Venue: Rubin Museum (150 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011, 212-620-5000)
Ticket: free
Genre: psyechedelic sitar music
Renegade Sufi is an ensemble led by multi-instrumentalist/composer/improvise Dawoud who has performed and recorded with such artists as Lauryn Hill, James Blood Ulmer, and Nona Hendryx. Renegade Sufi plays a singular blend of sitar-based electronic jazz. The group expands upon classical raga with otherworldly electronics, hypnotic drum loops, and free-jazz-style improvisation to produce deep, trancelike grooves. Dawoud from the midwest, USA, yet a Muslim-Sufi somehow steeped in the mysticism of the Far East, carrying the Ravi Shankar/George Harrison banner into the next generation. Jimmy Lopez will join on percussion
8. Tomas Doncker BAND
Date: Thursday, October 23, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: Milk River (960 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11238)
Tickets: $15
Genre: blues, funk, afro-beat
Milk River in association with True Groove Global SOUL presents a weekly Global Soul Celebration. Kicking off this collaboration will be the Tomas Doncker BAND in an evening of blues, funk, afro-beat featuring special guests. Tonight is the celebration of the release of Funky World a True Groove Club/Dub/Dance Compilation. NO COVER NO MINIMUM (but please support Milk River as you can)
9. WOMEN’S VOICES FESTIVAL
Dates: Friday, October 24, 2014
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: St. Peter’s Church (619 Lexington Avenue at 54th Street, New York, NY 10022, Telephone 212 935 2200)
Ticket: (suggested donations) $30, $40 VIP (front rows); $20 Students & Seniors w/ID (cash only at door).
Genre: Indian vocal classical music
HarmoNYom in collaboration with Robert Browning Associates, is presenting the WOMEN’S VOICES FESTIVAL at Saint Peter’s Church in New York City on October, 10, 17 and 24, 2014. This is the first Women Festival ever presented in New York!
The mesmerizing vocalist Anandi (Aka Sukanya) Bhattacharya became a child prodigy in a family filled with renowned musicians and singers, including her father, slide guitar master Debashish Bhattacharya, who has been her constant guide, and her grandmother, whose vocal music grew and was nurtured within the family. Anandi started training under her aunt Sutapa Bhattacharya at the age of three, and gave her first radio performance at four. When she was 12, she studied under Vidushi Shubhra Guha. Her singing is a mixed style of Agra, Patiala and Maihar traditions. A young singer, born in 1996, she has toured and recorded (Madeira, Beyond the Ragashere) with her father, including an experimental program on Tagore’s songs. She performed extensively with her father first time in USA in the year 2012 at the age sixteen. She has performed in NPR tiny desk concert as well extensively in UK and Australia recently.
www.youtube.com/
www.debashishbhattacharya.
Accompanied by Pt. Ramesh Misra on sarangi www.rameshmisra.com and Subhasis Bhattacharya on tabla
Invited Guests: Pta. Tripti Mukherjee (Vocalist & disciple of Pandit Jasraj) & Suphala (Tabla musician & disciple of Ustad Zakir Hussain).
10. NYC Screening of Fred Ho’s Last Year
Dates: Saturday, October 25, 2014
Time: 2:30pm – 4:30pm
Venue: Producers Club Theatres (358 W 44th St, New York, New York 10036)
Ticket: (suggested donations) $30, $40 VIP (front rows); $20 Students & Seniors w/ID (cash only at door).
Genre: music documentary film screening
This is the very last screening of Fred Ho’s Last Year currently scheduled, so don’t miss it! More info at http://discoverfredho.org/
11. Mitra Sumara as part of the “Iranian-American Literary Arts Festival”
Date: Saturday, October 25, 2014
Time: 8pm – 9pm
Venue: Cafe Nadery – Manhattan (16 W8th Street, New York, New York 10011)
Ticket: https://www.facebook.com/
Genre: Iranian 60’s pop music
Mitra Sumara is New York City’s only Farsi Funk group. This international party band gets down with the vibrant pop and funk music of 60s/70s Iran, an infectious pre-Revolutionary sound which combined the beats of Fela Kuti, salsa, and disco with Middle Eastern melodies and flowery poetry.
Interpreting hits by Iran’s beloved singers Googoosh, Pooran, Aghassi, Leila Forouhar, Nooshafarin, and Zia Atabi’s intoxicating Bandari beat tunes, Mitra Sumara’s repertoire also includes American hits of the era translated into Farsi. East meets West meets East while delighted audiences sing along.
12. HAZMAT MODINE
Date: Saturday, October 25, 2014
Time: 7pm
Venue: TERRA BLUES (149 Bleecker Street, NYC 212.777.7776)
Ticket: t.b.a.
Genre: nu blues/ New Orleans brass
One of New York’s most original bands, HAZMAT MODINE delivers a rustic, deliriously Dionysian blend of whorehouse Blues, Reggae, Klezmer, Country and Gypsy-tinged music.
13. Red Barrat
Date: Saturday, October 25, 2014
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012, ph: 212- 505-3474)
Ticket: $22
Genre: a merging of hard driving North Indian bhangra rhythms with elements of jazz, go-go, brass funk, and hip-hop
Formed in 2008, Red Baraat is a pioneering eight-piece band from Brooklyn, New York. Conceived by Sunny Jain, the group has drawn worldwide praise for its singular sound — a merging of hard driving North Indian bhangra rhythms with elements of jazz, go-go, brass funk, and hip-hop. Created with no less a purposeful agenda than manifesting joy and unity in all people, Red Baraat’s spirit is worn brightly on its sweaty and hard-worked sleeve. And is being returned to them in cities all over the world, as word spreads of the band’s incredibly powerful live performances.
14. Creative Music in DC – A Night of New Music, the October Revolution w. SoSaLa
Date: Sunday, October 26, 2014
Time: 7pm
Venue: Union Arts DC (411 New York Ave NE, Washington, District of Columbia 20002)
Ticket: donation
Genre: a series of duo performances
CREATIVE MUSIC is the improvisational and compositional expansion of the world’s musical traditions. Entering the world of creative music merely demands an ability to listen, sustain attention, and challenge your own conceptions of music. We focus on improvisation, composition, listening, ensemble playing, history, theory, critique, creative concepts and our connections to other genres, fields and disciplines. And most importantly, we put it all to the test in musical performance.
This month of October 2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution in Jazz, organized by trumpeter Bill Dixon in New York City. The goal was to provide a platform for musicians dedicated performing original and improvised music, but were not able to find steady work in this approach. It ultimately lead to the creation of the Jazz Composer’s Guild and was another important statement in organizing musicians and artists in practicing self-determination in their artistic careers and in the community.
For this performance, musicians from DC, with a few special guests from, New York City will collaborate in a series of duo performances. This is in recognition of a historical event, showcasing a community of musicians who have been influenced by the October Revolution.
Musicians include Ras Moshe, Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi (SoSaLa DC music collective), Kamyar Arsani (SoSaLa DC music collective), Brian Settles, Aaron Martin, Jamal Moore, Jeron White, Warren “Trae” Cruddop III (SoSaLa DC music collective), Luke Stewart (SoSaLa DC music collective), Nate Scheible, and more!
Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi (tenor sax and vocals) and Kamyar Arsani (daf, percussion and vocals) will perform nu world trash music, oriental music meets jazz meets improv meets music activism!
15. Lauren Lee “Space Jazz” Trio
Date: Sunday, October 26, 2011
Time: 7pm – 8:30pm
Venue: Caffe Vivaldi ( 32 Jones St., NY, 212.691.7538)
Ticket: free
Genre: jazz
With influences ranging from bebop and free jazz to glam rock and romanticism, Lauren Lee‘s “Space Jazz” Trio takes you on a whirlwind, abbreviated tour through music history with a very modern, sophisticated, and exciting flavor palate sure to please even the most discerning music lover. Featuring Charley Sabatino on bass and Andy O’Neill on drums.
16. Mathias Kunzli CD Release Show
Date: Sunday, October 26, 2011
Time: 9:30pm
Venue: Joe’s Pub (425 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10003, 212-967-7555)
Tickets: $18
Genre: dreamy sound scapes and heavy hitting beats
Multi-disciplined drummer/percussionist Mathias Kunzli is celebrating the release of his album Playground – a live recording of an all-improvised solo show. Kunzli creates music from the heart. Through his improvisations he invites his audience on a journey between dreamy sound scapes and heavy hitting beats. He has toured or recorded with Regina Spektor, Moby, Lauryn Hill, Yo-Yo Ma Silk Road Project, Vieux Farka Toure, John Zorn, The Paul Winter Consort, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and Brooklyn Rider.
17. Recommended Fall Festival: FIAF’s “Crossing the Line” from September 8 through October 20, 2014
