1. Hazmat Modin

Date: Monday, April 27, 2015
Time: 8:30pm & 10:30pm
Venue: Iridium (1650 Broadway New York, NY 10019, 212-582-2121)
Ticket: $25
Genre: blues/New Orleans brass

HAZMAT MODINE plays the kind of Blues one might have found in a barrelhouse in New Orleans had the city been inhabited by gypsies who performed with Otis Redding and the city had been built on the Black Sea. The band is driven by harmonicas, accordion, tuba, drums, guitars, and a full horn section. Guests play such exotic instruments as the Romanian cimbalom, the banjitar, and the Claviola. Front man Wade Schuman has the appropriately throaty voice of someone who has both hopped freight trains and collaborated with the Throat Singers of Tuva.

For the past eight years, the band has been touring in over 35 countries worldwide. They have collaborated/performed with a vast range of artists including Bombino, Kronos Quartet, Cat Empire, the Gangbe Brass band from Benin, and Natalie Merchant. The title track from their first CD BAHAMUT was recently used in the 3D film Pina by Wim Wenders, and currently in a performance by Pina Bausch and the Stuttgart Ballet. Their second CD Cicada was awarded the Charles Cross award in France for best blues album of the Year, and topped number one on the World Music Charts in Europe.

2. Tani Tabbal

Date: Monday, April 27, 2015
Time: 8pm
Venue: Quinn’s (330 Main Street, Beacon, New York 12508)
Tickets: donation
Genre: jazz/improv

By the age of 14 Tabbal was playing professionally, performing with Oscar Brown Jr. In his teens he also performed with Phil Cohran and the Sun Ra Arkestra.

Tabbal has recorded, performed and toured with a wide range of musicians, including Roscoe Mitchell, Anthony Braxton, Oliver Lake, Muhal Richard Abrams, Henry Threadgill, Richard Davis, David Murray, James Carter, Geri Allen, Karl Berger, Evan Parker, Leroy Jenkins, Milt Jackson, Jackie McLean, Dewey Redman and Cassandra Wilson.

He was also an integral part of the rhythm section of Detroit group Griot Galaxy, along with bassist Jaribu Shahid. In addition, he was in the percussion ensemble “Pieces of Time” along with Andrew Cyrille, Famoudou Don Moye, and Obo Addy.

Tani Tabbal on drums, Adam Siegel on alto sax and Michael Bisio on bass

3. MENAGE

Date:  Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Time: 7pm
Venue: Arlene’s Grocery (95 Stanton St., New York, New York 10002)
Ticket: $8
Genre: power pop

 Toronto-based, indie power pop/rock band Menage just dropped the single Black and White TV, that features Jim Barr (Portishead), follow up to their latest EP and were nominated as “Best Band” in the People’s Choice Awards (International Portuguese Music Awards). “Black And White TV is the perfect fusion of their Portuguese and US influences, and to our ears sounds like what you might get if you fused No Doubt with Evanescence and locked them in a room with a stack of fado CDs for a few weeks.” (Songwriting Magazine)

4.  SEM/Ostravska Banda/THE TRIO

Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Time:  8pm
Venue: Bohemian National Hall (321 E 73rd St, New York, New York 10021)
Ticket: donation
Genre:  jazz/improv

Petr Kotik leads the Orchestra of the SEM Ensemble and members of the Ostravska Banda (Czech Republic) in orchestral works by George E. Lewis, Roscoe Mitchell (with baritone Thomas Buckner), Wadada Leo Smith, and AACM founder Muhal Richard Abrams. The evening also includes a rare New York appearance by The Trio, the distinguished improvising trio of Muhal Richard Abrams, George Lewis, and Roscoe Mitchell.

5. MATT BAUDER AND DAY IN PICTURES

Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Time: 8:30pm
Venue: The Cornelia Street Cafe (29 Cornelia St., NY, NY 10014)
Ticket: $10
Genre: jazz

Matt Bauder is a distinguished saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, bandleader and sideman. Critics say he evokes “an ideal of midcentury jazz modernism, without abandoning an exploratory air” (The New York Times) and “he consistently demonstrates killer chops and impeccable taste both as an improviser and as a conceptualist, finding thrilling ways to use arrangement, composition, and electronic production to forge something new” (The Chicago Reader). In 2007, Bauder formed Day in Pictures, enlisting some of the most compelling figures of Brooklyn’s creative music scene, all renowned composers and band leaders in their own right. The band’s first two albums were released by All About Jazz record label of the year Clean Feed Records. Their self-titled debut was named the #1 jazz album of the year by Magnet Magazine and their second album, Nightshades, received four stars in Downbeat’s Hotbox column. The band is currently performing a new set of material in preparation for recording their third album.

MATT BAUDER AND DAY IN PICTURES
Matt Bauder, tenor sax, comp.;  Nate Wooley, trumpet;  Kris Davis, piano;  Jason Ajemian, bass;  Tomas Fujiwara, drums

6. Jazz Women Advocates Presents: Our Party in the Street for Blind Auditions at Jazz at Lincoln Center

Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Time: 6pm to 7pm
Venue: on the sidewalk outside of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Gala, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Broadway at 60th Street, New York City
Tickets: free
Genre: protest gathering with jazz music

 

 

It’s time for some women on the bandstand! There are many female instrumentalists talented enough to play jazz on a national stage. Unfortunately, despite the numerous contributions of women to jazz music over the years, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra has never had a female permanent member.

Blind auditions in American classical orchestras increased the number of women in classical orchestras from less than 5% in the 1970s to nearly 50% today. We have called on Jazz at Lincoln Center to advertise job openings and hold blind auditions before a committee for new hires.

This event is organized by the Jazz Women Advocates. Featuring live music by saxophonist Virginia Mayhew and the Virginia Mayhew Group, with Roberta Piket.

7.  Brooklyn Raga Massive Presents Jaan Gaathi Band& BRM COMPILATION ALBUM RELEASE PARTY!

Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Time: 8pm to 11pm(
Venue: Bluebird (504 Flatbush Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11225)
Tickets: $10
Genre: nu raga music (?)

After an amazing close out to our run at Studio 487, Brooklyn Raga Massive is moving residencies starting next week! Find us Wednesdays in the Prospect Lefferts neighborhood at the south eastern corner of Prospect Park at BLUEBIRD. We are thrilled to be keeping the Raga music flowing with an amazing lineup for May, so let’s close out April by coming to celebrate our launch party at this amazing bar and restaurant with intimate downstairs listening with full bar, food and now
Featuring: Mitch Marcus (Saxophone)
Sameer Gupta (Tabla, Drumset)
Neel Murgai (Sitar)
Arun Ramamurthy (Violin)
Peter Brendler (Bass)

8. NOURA MINT SEYMALI/FULA FLUTE

Date: Thursday, April 30, 2015
Time:  8pm
Venue: The Roulette (509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217)
Ticket: $30
Genre:  traditional Mauritanian music/Fulani (Guinea) music

Noura Mint Seymali is heir to a Mauritanian iggawin (griot) lineage stretching back for untold generations. Her stepmother Dimi Mint Abba was one of Mauritania’s most famous musicians and a major figure in bringing Mauritanian music to international audiences. As the daughter of the late Seymali Ould Mouhamed Val, a revered scholar-musician credited as the first person to apply written notation to folk music in Mauritania, Noura is a true tradition bearer maintaining an ancient art and adding her personal signature. Her hypnotic grooves meld traditional Mauritanian instruments, like the ardin (harp) and tidinit (skin-faced lute), within an electrified psychedelic rock band. She is accompanied by her husband, guitarist Jeiche Ould Chighaly; bassist Ousmane Touré;  and Senegalese drummer/producer Matthew Tinari. Her CD Tzenni was recently named one of NPR’s Top 50 Albums of 2014.

Bailo Bah is a master of the tambin an endblown three-holed flute used by the Fulani people for various rituals. He grew up in a traditional village in the heart of the Fulani land in the Futa Djalon mountains of Guinea. He was a soloist for twenty-two years with the Ballets Koteba of Abidjan and toured the world with Africa Oye.  Sylvain Leroux was born in Montreal and studied classical flute and jazz. He learned to play the tambin in Guinea and has collaborated for many years with West African musicians and formed Fula Flute with Bailo Bah. He is acknowledged as one of the few Westerners to have mastered this instrument. Together these two musicians perform a hypnotic duet combining voice and flute with a rhythmic intensity that brings to mind the harmonica of of Sonny Terry’s “whooping the Blues”

9. Terry Dame’s Weird Wednesday – Episode XXl – Weird Glass 2

Date: Thursday, April 30, 2015
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 WeirdWednesdays 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.

Featuring Kenny Wollesen who will debut two new percussive inventions, the “Clox Box” and the “Bambingo”. Also joining Kenny will be the inimitable poet musician Daluis Naujo. 

10. Marc Edwards’ Slipstream Time Travel/Spreaders/Eighty Pound Pug/Häßliche Luftmasken

Date: Thursday, April 30, 2015
Time: 8pm
Venue: FAT BABY NYC (112 Rivington St, New York, New York 10002)
Ticket: $t.b.a.
Genre: free style/psychedelic rock/improve

Line Up:

Eighty-pound Pug: Alex Lozupone Project (with David Tamura, Paul Feitzinger, Ayumi Ishito, Bruce Mack)

 

Häßliche Luftmasken (Nick Didkovsky, Joshua Lopes, Samuel Smith, Jonathan Lango)

Marc Edwards & Slipstream Time Travel

11. Trauma Salon : recoil & regeneration

Date: Thursday, April 30, 2015
Time: 8pm
Venue: Panoply Performance Laboratory (104 Meserole Street, Brooklyn, New York 11206)
Ticket: t.b.a.
Genre: multi media/jazz

This is no longer the time for ignoring growth. there was a time when obfuscation was necessary and numbing desired. this time is no longer present (whether you like it or not).
they speak of a beauty that appears of it’s own volition, that is not dialectically bound to the slow ache of decay as it subsides. We cannot be sure that this beauty exists. And so we endlessly reveal.

installment 2:

Lauren Lee
I am going backwards in time, unravelling myself until nothing but bits and pieces of my personality and life are left on the floor. Through this journey I will experience all emotions and no emotions, and the goal is that the audience will as well. I will be joined by Charley Sabatino on bass, who will be doing the same thing, but in reverse, starting from the pieces at the beginning and working toward becoming whole. We will meet in the middle for brief harmony before spiraling out of control in opposite directions again.
www.laurenleeprojectjazz.com/media

Alex Cohen
April has evidently been declared autism awareness month, so I think there would be no better time to discuss my own experiences with the condition. I’ll fully admit that I’m on the spectrum, and have both autism and a mild case of savant syndrome. These conditions affect every facet of my life, and I will discuss what I’ve dealt with throughout my life, and then display some of the supposed ‘upsides’.
https://www.facebook.com/alex.cohen.750546?fref=ts

Andrea Pensado
To my astonishment, Andreita (my ventriloquist doll) has taught me many things, things I still don’t quite get but that go deep within and heal me. Probably the most important one is that healing doesn’t have to be (only) painful. There’s incredible joy hidden within, I (just!) have to learn how to release it. The obstacles are many: fear, control just to name a few. I believe that personal healing is a social responsibility. It’s not an easy process, and I don’t think it has an end, but it’s a path worth walking… maybe just out of gratitude for being alive.
http://www.andreapensado.com/Andrea_Pensado/Home.html

Michael Stablein
These six scores are an autobiographical study in the act of ‘passing’: the ability of a person to be regarded as a member of a social group other than their own, generally with the purpose of gaining social acceptance or to cope with difference anxiety.
The trauma earned in passing or trying to ‘pass’. The trauma earned in doing this ‘passing’ and renouncing one’s difference publicly. The trauma of seeking masculine intimacy that comes at a cost.
www.americanlaboratory.org

Shawn Escarciga will close the evening with a discussion of how we share trauma; how to channel pain creatively and how to face darkness in a way that allows us to present it to others (and ourselves) in a communally healing way

from wikipedia: the regrowth of lost tissues or organs in the human body is being researched. Some tissues such as skin regrow quite readily; others have been thought to have little or no capacity for regeneration, but ongoing research suggests that there is some hope for a variety of tissues and organs. Human organs that have been regenerated include the bladder, vagina and the penis.

beer lovingly provided by Brooklyn Brewery.

http://www.thesupercoda.com/

12. The Firmament/Andrew Wilhite/Brandon Seabrook/One Day Duo/Mike Wilbur

Date: Thursday, April 30, 2015
Time: 9pm
Venue: The Living Gallery BK (1094 Broadway, Brooklyn, New York 11221)
Ticket: $8
Genre: electronics/noise/free style/improv

The Freedom Garden Presents: Night Of The Living Gallery 3:

MIKE WILBUR – 9PM

ONE DAY DUO – 9:30pm
Cory Bracken/Zachary Pruitt

BRANDON SEABROOK – 10PM

ANDREW WILHITE TAPERELEASE (SPECIALGUEST) – !030PM

THE FIRMAMENT-11PM
AdamRobinson/LynThuTun/JohnWelsh

https://freedomgardenmusic.wordpress.com/

https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Firmament/1583636811847969?fref=ts
http://newatlantisrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sylphid-vitalizers
http://corybracken.bandcamp.com/album/real-adult-fake-person
http://zacharypruittsatanandboys.bandcamp.com/

13. Farid Ayaz, Abu Muhammad & Brothers Qawwal

Date: Friday, May 1, 2015
Time:  8pm
Venue: The Roulette (509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217)
Ticket: $35
Genre: qawwali music (Sufi music of Pakistan)

Farid Ayaz, Abu Muhammad & Brothers Qawwal perform qawwali, the ecstatic devotional music of Sufi Muslims made famous in the West by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. The 9-member ensemble has gained international recognition for its renditions of both the popular traditional form and the more introspective ancient classical qawwali that is seldom heard today.   Similar to gospel in its use of call-and-response and spiritual fervor, qawwali songs are accompanied by percussive handclapping, harmonium, tabla (drums), and a chorus.  Qawwali (Urdu for “utterance”) songs range from 13th century mystical Persian poems to more recent Punjabi poems that speak of the intoxication of divine love. The qawwali singer or qawwal is regarded as God’s interpreter and devotees sometimes enter into trance. The group sings in many languages, including Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Hindi, Persian, Arabic, Bengali and Purbi.