1. Jope Fiddler Trio CD Pre-Release Show
Date: Monday, April 6, 2015
Time: 8pm
Venue: Quinn’s (330 Main Street, Beacon, New York 12508)
Tickets: donation
Genre: nu jazz/world/avant garde
From the opening notes of I’m In, trombonist, composer, bandleader Joe Fiedler, bassist Rob Jost and drummer Michael Sarin make it clear that this is going to be an adventurous, imaginative, funky and fun listen. Fiedler’s new recording, the fourth from his trio, and the second album on his label, Multiphonics Music, presents a departure from his previous trio sessions, as Fiedler set out to play tunes with more traditional jazz forms, and that possessed more blues elements. With I’m In Fiedler has once again used his curious mind and explorer’s heart to great advantage, finding brilliant new approaches on his horn, and new heights of mastery with his composer’s pen. – all about jazz
2. Kavitah Shah Trio feat. Lionel Loueke and Rogerio Boccato
Date: Monday, April 6, 2015
Time: 8:30pm & 10:30pm
Venue: Iridium (1650 Broadway New York, NY 10019, 212-582-2121)
Ticket: $25
Genre: vocal jazz
In a collaboration that has been called “breathtakingly beautiful” byDownbeat, vocalist/composer Kavita Shah joins forces with Benin-born jazz guitarist/vocalist Lionel Loueke and Brazilian percussionist Rogério Boccato for a special performance.
Kavita Shah, a native New Yorker, was praised by NPR for her “amazing dexterity for musical languages.” Her debut VISIONS, co-produced by Loueke, incorporates elements of Indian, African, and Brazilian music into a jazz-based repertoire; it was dubbed a “sparkling debut” (Boston Globe), “daring and ambitious” (Jazzwise), “stunning” (Aquarian Weekly) and “one of the most unique and global inspired debut releases in some time” (Critical Jazz). A graduate of Harvard College and Manhattan School of Music, Shah regularly tours across North America and Europe and has collaborated with Sheila Jordan, Peter Eldridge, Steve Wilson, François Moutin, Yacouba Sissoko, Stephen Cellucci, and Samir Chatterjee.
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3. Colonel Presents: Chat Logs/Dog/Advertisin & Girls and God
Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Time: 8pm
Venue: Palisades (906 Broadway, Brooklyn, New York 112060
Ticket: $7
Genre: indie-alternative rock/noise
Chat Logs – http://
Dog – http://
Advertising – http://
Girls and God (Dave Scanlon…whose also in JOBS, which used to be called Killer Bob, but is now called JOBS) – http://
4. Luciano Troja, John Murchison and Blaise Siwula CD Release Show
Date: Wednesdayy, April 8 , 2015
Time: 7pm
Venue: ShapeShifter Lab (18 Whitwell Pl, between Carroll St & 1st St, Brooklyn, NY 11215, 646-820-9452)
Ticket: $10
Genre: free jaz/improv
Blaise Siwula on clarinet and saxophones, Luciano Troja on piano and John Murchison on bass.
Beneath the Ritual the latest CD from NoFrillsMusic will be having a performance party of sorts….actually week until April 12th. But this night Blaise Siwula, Luciano Troja and John Murchison will be improvising spontaneous compositions beneath the ritual. saxophones, clarinets, grand piano and bass.
5. Sacred Arts Research Foundation 1 Year Anniversary Celebration w. Xalam Trio
Date: Thursday, April 9, 2015
Time: 7pm
Venue: Sacred Arts Research Foundation (107 Green St #G55, Brooklyn, New York 11222)
Ticket: free
Genre: music of sound healing instruments/New Age?
Sacred Arts Research Foundation would like to acknowledge all of its participants, teachers and community members that helped make events, workshops and happenings at The Ark a grand success in its very first year of existence!
7-7:30pm Complementary Hors d’oeuvres
7:30-8:30pm Special Lecture with Maestro Manuel Rufino
8:30-9pm Vegetarian Dinner Served ($10 per person)
9:15pm Xalam Trio: Brandon Terzic, Kane Mathis and Luke Notary
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6. The Retro Remix Orchestra
Date: Thursday, April 9, 2015
Time: 9pm
Venue: Pete’s Candy Store (709 Lorimer St, Brooklyn, NY 11211)
Tickets: $10
Genre: swing & gypsy jazz
The Retro Remix Orchestra/Duo is a specialty swing band playing all your favorite hits of the 80s and 90s in gypsy and swing styles. With Lauren Lee, vocals/piano and Charley Sabatino, bass w. special guest horns and sit-ins.
Line up:
Lauren Lee, vocals/piano
Jessie Bunting, clarinet
Evan Francis, tenor sax
Eric Loffswold, bari sax
Michael Sarian, trumpet
John Blevins, trumpet
Kevin Virgillio, trombone
Charley Sabatino, bass
Andy O’Neill, drums
7. Michael Wimberly Quartet
Date: Thursday, April 9, 2015
Time: 7pm – 8pm
Venue: Clemente Soto Velez Center (107 Suffolk St, New York, NY 10002)
Tickets: $15 per set
Genre: jazz/improv/world
Line up:
MICHAEL WIMBERLY (Drums)
JUAN QUINONEZ (Guitar)
LARRY ROLAND (Bass)
with Special Guests…
ABDOULAYE N’DIAYE (Tenor Sax)
JALALU KALVERT NELSON (Trumpet)
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8. Sean Noonan
Date: Friday, April 10 & Saturday, April 11, 2015
Time: 8:30pm
Venue: IBeam Brooklyn (168 7th St., Brooklyn, NY)
Ticket: $15
Genre: jazz/improv
Drummer, composer, storyteller Sean Noonan describes himself as an ‘Irish griot,’ one who collects tales, legends, and life stories over the course of his journeys and transforms them into the raw material that informs not only his drumming, but the entirety of the music he creates; as if Samuel Beckett were on drums.
On Friday: Sean Noonan “Bruised by Noon” solo drum set/storytelling
“Brewed by Noon” Afro-Celtic Trio
Alex Marcelo piano
Peter Bitenc bass
Sean Noonan drums/compositions
“Pavees Dance”
Brandon Seabrook guitar/banjo
Alex Marcelo piano
Peter Bitenc bass
Sean Noonan drums/compositions
On Saturday: Sean Noonan Bruised by Noon solo drum set/storytelling
“Eye to Eye”
Kirk Knuffke cornet Christof Knoche bass clarinet Sean Noonan drums
“Man No Longer”
Kirk Knuffke cornet Jonathan Moritz sax
Alex Marcelo piano Peter Bitenc bass Sean Noonan drums/compositions
9. SPRING TOGETHER
Date: Friday, April 10, Saturday, April 11 & Sunday, April 12, 2015
Time: 8pm on Friday & Saturday, on Sunday 4pm
Venue: Medicine Show Theatre (549 W 52nd St, New York, New York 10019)
Ticket: $20
Genre: multi media
Dance Projects Inc./ Beth Soll & Co presents an evening of dance, music, poetry, visual art, film, & theater. Directed by Janet Aisawa and Beth Soll with Elisa Decker, Carlos Fittante, Andrew Gurian, John Nichter, Jeff Platz, Sally Ann Parsons, Raphael Simons, and Gary Winter.
“Spring Together” is an evocative program of multidisciplinary works made in response to two germinal pieces by master choreographer Beth Soll and trapeze artist extraordinaire Janet Aisawa. In the making of their solos, Soll and Aisawa have been influenced by each other’s work, and in turn they have invited artists from other fields to make their work in an open-ended reaction to the original solos. Responding to the dances by Ms. Aisawa and Ms. Soll will be visual artist Elisa Decker, Baroque Fusion choreographer Carlos Fittante, film artist Andrew Gurian, musician Jeff Platz, writer Raphael Simons, and playwright Gary Winter. Costumes by Sally Ann Parsons and lighting design by John Nichter.
10. African & Caribbean Jazz Trio
Date: Friday, April 10, 2015
Time: 7pm – 9pm
Venue: Inkwell on Rogers (408 Rogers Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11225)
Ticket: $5
Genre: jazz/improv/world
LEOPOLDO FLEMING (percussion with Nina Simone) and WARREN SMITH (marimba and percussion with Max Roach, Aretha Franklin, Miles Davis) join saxophonist EDITH LETTNER, playing mainly original compositions. Melodic solos and vibrant grooves are the ingredients of this special world music and jazz flavored ensemble.
11. QUEBECOIS MUSIC FESTIVAL, Le Bruit Court dans la Ville concert & dance party with Pierre Chartrand
Date: Friday, April 10, 2015
Time: 8pm
Venue: The Roulette (509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217)
Ticket: $25
Genre: Quebec’s traditional music
Composed of three legends of Quebec’s traditional music scene, Le Bruit Court dans la Ville (The Buzz around Town) features fiddler Lisa Ornstein, button-accordionist/singer Normand Miron, and guitarist/singer André Marchand. They have been on the roster of virtually every groundbreaking band over the past 30 years: Ornstein and Miron were bandmates in La Bottine Souriante, the iconic trad supergroup which helped to kickstart Quebec’s folk music revival, and Miron and Marchand have been members of the extraordinary a cappella trad band Les Charbonniers de l’Enfer (The Coalmen from Hell). The artists have been playing as a trio since the 1990s, entrancing audiences with their fiery dance music and dazzling harmonies. For this dance concert they will by joined by Pierre Chartrand, a highly accomplished traditional Quebecois dance leader and caller.
12. East Village Pharmacy ft Shelita Thomas
Date: Friday, April 10, 2015
Time: 9pm
Venue: Ashford & Simpson’s Sugar Bar (254 W 72nd St, New York, New York 10023)
Ticket: $10
Genre: reggae
The band originated as a jazzy dub reggae band in 2000 when Sugarcane (bass) and Tad Pain (trumpet) lived above the East Village Pharmacy hence the name. Since then their sound has moved to reggaeton with their hit animated video “A la Playa (con Big Mato)” and more recently a roots reggae record “Little Mama” recorded with Hempress Sativa at the 12 Tribes of Israel Headquarters in Kingston, Jamaica pressed with VP Records. This track was featured in Sugarcane’s London award winning film “Countryman 2 : Listen to the Ocean”
Their current lineup features Bajan beauty Shelita Thomas, German sax man Welf Dorr (Underground Horns), Trini drummer Steve Romeo (Midnite), and Bolo, a keyboardist from Dominica.
13. QUEBECOIS MUSIC FESTIVAL feat. Le Vent du Nord
Date: Saturday, April 11, 2015
Time: 8pm
Venue: The Roulette (509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217)
Ticket: $25
Genre: Quebec’s traditional music/progressive folk
Le Vent du Nord, One of the most beloved Québecois bands in the world, is a driving force in progressive folk. With its infectious, joyful music (akin to the Celtic sounds of Ireland, Scotland and Brittany) and humor, the group has become a compelling ambassador of French-Canadian culture around the world. Its repertoire includes traditional and original songs and dance tunes that capture the energy and mirth of a Saturday night kitchen party. The dynamic quartet is composed of Nicolas Boulerice (hurdy-gurdy, vocals), Simon Beaudry (guitar, bouzouki, vocals), Olivier Demers (violin, mandolin, vocals), and Réjean Brunet (accordion, vocals). This program is part of the group’s US CD launch tour for Têtu (Determined) on the Borealis label.
14. CINEMA CINEMA/LOCKTENDER/NY in 64 & SANGHARSHA
Date: Saturday, April 11, 2015
Time: 3pm – 7pm
Venue: ABC No Rio (156 Rivington Street between Norfolk and Suffolk, Lower East Side. F train to Delancey)
Ticket: $7-$12 Sliding Scale
Genre: post punk/experimental/improv
Line up:
Cinema Cinema (experimental DIY Brooklyn post-punk duo returning to ABC, fresh off a European tour!)
Locktender (experimental skramz/post-rock from Cleveland, ex-Men As Trees!)
NY in 64 (NJ progressive instrumental post-rock, current and ex-East Of The Wall/Capacities/You And I/The Assistant/Black Kites!)
Sangharsha (gritty, sludgy, Nepali hardcore from Queens!)
15. Greg Squared and Friends
Date: Saturday, April 11, 2015
Time: 6pm
Venue: Barbes (376 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY)
Ticket: $10
Genre: Balkan music fusing with jazz, art song, pop, experimental, and other styles
GREG SQUARED & FRIENDS Every Saturday in April. The clarinet and saxophone player has specialized in music from across the Balkan for the better part of this century. He has learned directly from some of the masters including Selim Sesler, Ferus Mustafov and the late Sami-Buco Zekirovski (of Esma Redzepova’s band) and he regularly regularly performs with Raya Brass band and Sherita as well a host of side projects.
Each week this month, he will be joined by a variety of musicians, showcasing many aspects of his musical personality.
This Week: LONG SHADOW with ASTORIANI. Long Shadows is the brand new duo project of musician-composers Greg Squared and Rima Fand. Together they are stretching their musical palette to include jazz, art song, pop, experimental, and other styles yet to be discovered. Instruments so far include piano, sax, flute, guitar, and voices.
Astoriani plays traditional Greek folk music with an accent from New York’s most diverse borough. Rima Fand-violin, vocals; Matthew Fass-accordion; Matt Moran-percussion; Greg Squared-clarinets, vocals; Demetri Tashie-laouto.
16. Beyond Duo
Date: Saturday, April 11, 2015
Time: 7pm – 9pm
Venue: Art on A Gallery and Shop (24 Avenue A, New York, New York 10009)
Ticket: t.b.a.
Genre: jazz/improv
Beyond Duo:
BERN NIX – GUITAR
CHERYL PYLE – FLUTE
17. Bassoon/Huldra/Elagabalus/ TBA
Date: Saturday, April 11, 2015
Time: 8pm
Venue: Lucky 13 Saloon (644 Sackett St, Brooklyn, New York 11217)
Ticket: $8
Genre: metal rock
Bassoon “unholy union of high-brow fusion and low-end sludge” “riffs are interesting, original post-Zep, post-Zap, post-Maha sorts of things”
Huldra The Blackened Outer Crust of Metal
Elagabalus Thought experiments from the cave of nowhere.
18. 75 Dollar Bill
Date: Saturday, April 11, 2015
Time: 8:30pm & 11pm
Venue: TROOST (1011 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11222)
Ticket: donation
Genre: Wood / Metal / Plastic. Pattern / Rhythm / Rock
75 Dollar Bill (Che Chen-guitars and Rick Brown-percussion) return to their favorite venue. This month they’re happy to be playing again with Steve Maing on 2nd guitar and Andrew Lafkas on bass, though they’ll also play some duo stuff. Maybe some guest appearance
Their first legit album is out now on Other Music Recording Co. Wooden Bag is a 500 copy vinyl release (with download) with hand-stamped covers, with a pretty raw, maraca-heavy sound with just the two of us. We have a limited supply for sale at these gigs.
19. UNSEEN RAIN FESTIVAL: Sumari, Pat Hall, Harmolodic Monk
Date: Sunday, April 12, 2015
Time: 7pm
Venue: ShapeShifter Lab (18 Whitwell Pl, between Carroll St & 1st St, Brooklyn, NY 11215, 646-820-9452)
Ticket: $15
Genre: jazz/free jaz/improv/global folk
7PM–Sumari, 8PM-Pat Hall’s Time Remembered Organ Group, 9PM-Harmolodic Monk
The artist-directed independent label, Unseen Rain Records, is bold in concept, producing radically expansive recordings of innovative jazz and improvised music. UR’s array of CDs and digital downloads have been hailed as “visionary” in the international media. The Unseen Rain Festival will feature three vastly different improvisational music ensembles that offered recent releases. The event unites them under the label’s banner.
SUMARI: The evening will open with the “other-world art music” of Sumari. The channeling of free improv and global folk culture with a boundless sense of the new are the path coursed by Matt Lavelle (trumpet, flugelhorn, alto clarinet), Jack DeSalvo (cello, electric and acoustic guitars, mandola, banjo) and Tom Cabrera (drumset, dumbeq, bodhran, tar, riq, percussion). The band members individually have held ground with such noted avant jazz strongholds as Ronald Shannon Jackson’s Decoding Society and the Bern Nix Quartet.
PAT HALL’S TIME REMEMBERED ORGAN GROUP: Trombonist Pat Hall, a veteran of Wadada Leo Smith’s ensembles, will perform with the combo heard on his starkly original album “Time Remembered: a Tribute to Bill Evans”. Hall’s Time Remembered Organ Group will offer unique adaptations of Evans’ immortal music. The album has been acclaimed by critics, celebrating the bold concept and arrangements of this jazz icon’s compositions. Joining Hall are Greg “Organ Monk” Lewis (Hammond B3), Marvin Sewell (guitar) and Mike Campenni (drumset).
HARMOLODIC MONK: The evening will close with the duet of Matt Lavelle (trumpet, flugelhorn, alto clarinet) and John Pietaro (vibraphone, hand drums, frame drums, percussion) aka Harmolodic Monk. The pair perform the repertoire of Thelonious Monk, reconstructed by way of Ornette Coleman’s music-liberating philosophy. The pedigree is there: Lavelle spent years studying with Coleman and still performs with Bern Nix; Pietaro is a mainstay of Karl Berger’s Improvisers Orchestra. Harmolodic Monk’s debut release, called “Disc of the Year” by several new music bloggers, compels listeners with blurred harmonies, stinging accents, crushes, soaring melodic lines and at least a little bit of the shock of the new.
UNSEEN RAIN RECORDS: MAKING THE INVISIBLE AUDIBLE
UNSEEN RAIN is visionary record label offering jazz and improvised music by contemporary innovators on various media. UR is focused on high production values and recognizes the entire process surrounding a recording as art.
FOR MORE INFORMATION SEE www.unseenrainrecords.com
20. AStridd Beautiful Catastrophe Video Release Party!
Date: Sunday, April 12, 2015
Time: 8pm
Venue: 49 Wycoff Street, Apt 2A, Brooklyn, NY (Directly across from the Jefferson L stop)
Ticket: $5 donation
Genre: nu jazz/nu soul
10PM Sharp – aStridd Video Premier screening
Followed by aStridd performance featuring brand new songs + DJ set from afrobeat/cumbia “Names You Can Trust” : https://www.facebook.com/
http://www.nyctrust.com/
https://soundcloud.com/
Also, for FREE aStridd merch, click into our website and SUBSCRIBE: http://astridd.com/
** Note: The aStridd performance will be filmed and recorded by the director of the video,
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21. Evolving Pop-Up theme is OUR EARTH / OUR WORLD Music Series
Date: Wednesday, April 1 through Friday, May 1, 2015
Time: 7pm – 11pm
Venue: Clemente Soto Velez Center (107 Suffolk St, New York, New York 10002)
Ticket: one set: $11 / two sets: $16 / 3 sets: $22
Genre: Free jazz, music, poetry, dance, visual art & conversations
April Evolving Pop-Up theme is OUR EARTH / OUR WORLD. Incudes a VISUAL ART SHOW featuring Jeff Schlanger, musicWitness® and musician portraits by Bill Mazza and environmentalist / photographer Carolyn Monastra.
Tue 7th
7 pm Steve Dalachinsky – poet / Mara Rosenbloom – piano
8 pm Waldman / Chuma / Pickett: Anne Waldman – poet / Yoshiko Chuma – dance / Lenny Pickett – sax
9 pm Selma: Lewis “Flip” Barnes – trumpet / Asim Barnes – guitar / Jared Michael Nickerson – el. bass / Hiroyuki Matsuura – drums
Wed 8th
7 pm 4 Dancers in a Room Part1: Lance Gries / Paul Singh / Chisa Hidaka / Elena Demyanenko
8 pm 4 Dancers Improv + The Nu Band
9 pm The Nu Band: Joe Fonda – bass / Lou Grassi – drums / Mark Whitecage – alto sax / Thomas Heberer – trumpet
Thu 9th
7 pm Michael Wimberly Quartet: Larry Rolands – bass / Juan Quinonez – guitar / Michael Wimberly – percussion / saxophonist TBA
8 pm Crothers / Otomo: Connie Crothers – piano / Yuko Otomo – poetry
9 pm Nick Lyons – sax / Ryan Messina – trumpet / Carol Liebowitz – piano
Fri 10th
7 pm Mara Rosenbloom Trio: Mara Rosenbloom – piano / Sean Conly – bass / Jeff Davis – drums
8 pm Connie Crothers Trio: Connie Crothers – piano / Mike Bisio – bass / Michael TA Thompson – drums
9 pm Chancey / Sanchez / Tamez: Vincent Chancey – french horn / Angelica Sanchez – piano / Omar Tamez – guitar
Sat 11th
7 pm Jalalu Kalvert Nelson “All Lives Matter” for voices & instruments; “A Mother`s Lament”- in memory of the young Black Men killed by US Police 2014-15
Voices: Tak Iwasaki, Dominique Simmoneaux, Anais Maviel Nadav Lachish – bass/ Ian Manouach – soprano sax/ Jacob Melchoir, percussion Satoshi Kataoka – guitar / Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson – composer, trumpet, piano, vocals
8 pm Maryanne deProphetis’ Fido Trio: Maryanne deProphetis – voice / Ron Horton – trumpet / Satoshi Takeishi – drums
9 pm Josh Sinton Group: Josh Sinton – baritone / Jason Ajemian and Adam Hopkins – bass
