Date: Monday, June 6, 2011
Time: 7:30 & 10pm
Venue: The Stone (is located at the corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street)
Ticket: $10
Genre: Contemporary Jazz/improve

During the ‘70- and ‘80’s, the Woodstock-based Creative Music Studio was considered the premier study center for contemporary creative music. Founded in 1971 by Karl Berger , Ingrid Sertso and Ornette Coleman, CMS brought together leading innovators in the jazz and world music communities. Unprecedented in its range and diversity, CMS was an acknowledged phenomenon in the international music world.

Date: Monday, June 13, 2011
Time: 9:30pm
Venue: Joe’s Pub (425 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10003, 212-967-7555)
Tickets: $12
Genre: World

An inspiring new international voice, who is both influenced by jazz and is bringing her own culture and creativity to the melting pot, is Malika Zarra. Born in Morocco, raised in France, and now thriving in the metropolis of New York City, this polyglot composer, producer and singer has invented a new Moroccan urban-world-jazz by tastefully using traditional North African chaâbi, Berber and Gnawa polyrhythms to underpin her distinctly contemporary urban compositions – which she sings in Berber, Moroccan Arabic, French, and English – all the while maintaining a sophisticated improvisational modern jazz approach. Oran Etkin’s latest CD, Kelenia (Motema Music), has been hailed as “ebullient” by the New York Times, “Mellow and Fairly Magical” by the Village Voice and described as “Astounding rhythmic excitement and exulted moments of beautiful lyricism” by Jazz Improv.

The CD features Oran’s working group with Malian griot musicians Balla Kouyate, Makane Kouyate and bassist Joe Sanders as well as vocalist Abdoulaye Diabate, Grammy Award Winning artists Lionel Loueke and John Benitez and a string quartet on one track. Even before it was released, Kelenia debuted at # 10 on the nationwide radio charts and All Music Guide has declared that Oran “sets a new standard for world music in the decade of the 2000s.”“Bold and brassy” – Jazz and Blues Report

Motema Night marks The Koko Jones Band’s New York City debut at Joe’s Pub. Music is literally in her blood – her Grandmother played piano with Bessie Smith– and early on Koko was introduced to traditional Congolese, West African and Latin hand drumming, leading to key positions with the LaRoque Bey Drummers and the Titos Sompa’s Tanawa Congolese Dance Company. Koko’s world/soul and jazz credentials include recordings/tours as a percussionist with The Isley Brothers in the 1980’s as well as with renowned artists Archie Shepp, Whitney Houston, Randy Weston, TK Blue, Little Louie Vega and many more.

3. The Nilsson Brothers with Joe Fonda

Date: Monday, June13, 2011
Time: 8pm
Venue: the University of the Streets (130 east 7th street. 2nd floor. NY)
Ticket: $10
Genre: Jazz

A night of challanging Jazz. Th e line up: Anders Nilsson (guitar), Peter Nilsson (drums) and  Joe Fonda! (bass).

4. Andy Bey Solo

Date: Monday and Tuesday, June 13 & 14, 2011
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: JAZZ STANDARD (116 East 27th Street, New York, NY 10016-8942, (212-576-2232)
Ticket: $25
Genre: Jazz/vocal

After a 22 year absence from recording, the unique singer/pianist Andy Bey launched a remarkable comeback in 1996 with the first of four acclaimed albums, culminating in his Grammynominated live set American Song (12th Street Records). Soon Andy was back on the airwaves and drawing a new generation of listeners to his nonpareil live performances. In past Jazz Standard engagements, Andy has performed with a trio including bass and drums, but this rare solo performance should prove an especially intimate and rewarding experience. One of the great jazz singers of our timeHis voice is still an extraordinary instrument, capable of foggy depths, penetrating highs and a sort of mezzo-falsetto that stretches his supple baritone into the alto range. (Nate Chinen, The New York Times)

5. Nels Cline & Marc Ribot

Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Time: 8:30pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012, ph: 212- 505-3474)
Ticket: $20
Genre: experimental guitar music

Nels Cline is one of the most versatile, imaginative and original guitarists active today. Combining breathtaking technique with an informed musical intelligence, the self-taught Cline displays a mastery of guitar expression that encompasses delicate lyricism, sonic abstractions, and skull-crunching flights of fancy, inspiring Jazz Times to call him “The World’s Most Dangerous Guitarist.” Cline has performed on over 100 albums spanning numerous genres. In addition to his latest trio The Nels Cline Singers, formed with drummer Scott Amendola and bassist Devin Hoff, Cline is also the lead guitarist for the critically acclaimed rock band Wilco, which he joined in 2004.

Marc Ribot, who the New York Times describes as “a deceptively articulate artist who uses inarticulateness as an expressive device,” has released 19 albums under his own name over a 25-year career, exploring everything from the pioneering jazz of Albert Ayler to the Cuban son of Arsenio Rodríguez. His latest solo release, Silent Movies (Pi Recording 2010) has been described as a “down-in-mouth-near master piece” by the Village Voice and has landed on several Best of 2010 lists including the LA Times and critical praise across the board.

Date: Thursday, June 16, 2011
Time: 8pm
Venue: The Stone (is located at the corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street)
Ticket: $10
Genre: Jazz/improve

Pianist Matthew Shipp is one of New York’s most talked–about talents, one who has “not only stretched the definitions of jazz, but also exponentially advanced his own ideas about it conceptually and technically.” (Thom Jurek, AllMusic.com). Alto saxophonist/composer Darius Jones “has the capacity for a proud, rafters–raising tone on alto saxophone, and as an improviser he’s fearless but disciplined.” (Nate Chinen, The New York Times).

Date: Thursday, June 16, 2011
Time: 8pm
Venue: Drom (85 Avenue A, NY, NY 10009, 212- 777-1157)
Ticket: $10
Genre: chamber jazz

 

Date: Friday, June 17, 2011
Time: 6pm-10pm
Venue: Central Park/Mainstage (NY)
Ticket: free, but $3 donation
Genre: various Turkish music

 

We have the honor of returning to SummerStage this June with Istanbulive for an unprecedented third year. Over 12,000 fans have attended the previous two editions, and we plan to up the energy yet again. This year we’ve got one of the most famous and influential Turkish artists of all time – world renowned composer, writer, film director and musician Zülfü Livaneli. 2011 marks the 40th anniversary of his career. He will be joined on stage by NY Gypsy All-Stars and other guests for an amazing summer outdoor event. Also on the bill is maNga, an alternative / hip-hop / electronic / rock band with a legion of loyal fans spread across Europe. With a Best European Act award at the 2009 MTV Europe Music Awards under their belt and a second place ranking at the 2010 Eurovision Song contest, maNga is an energetic force of musicianship.

Bardo Pond has the outward specifications of a rock band — guitars, bass, keyboards, drums, occasional but crucial flute and violin and vocals — but the rivers that converge into the band’s oneiric flow have their headwaters in the outlands of ecstatic jazz, free noise and the avant-garde. Their slow-motion avalanches of churning instrumentation and voice suggest drugged states but don’t necessarily require them.

Free sound mavericks White Out first arose from the subterranean depths of New York’s fading meat packing district in the fall of 1995. White Out’s core nucleus of Lin Culbertson and Tom Surgal employ a unique array of instruments including: analog synthesizers, cast off effects units, electric autoharp, flute, expanded drum kit, singing bowls, springs, Cambodian shells, temple woodblocks, chains, metal scraps, air tubes, gongs, bells, whistles, etc. Shape-shifting from gig to gig, record to record, White Out never plays the same thing twice. Over the years White Out has cultivated an extended family of accompanists to join them on their sonic odyssey. These guest artists include: Jim O’Rourke, Thurston Moore, Nels Cline, William Winant, and Mike Watt among others.

Metal Mountains is a new group that features the songs, singing and guitar playing of Helen Rush (Tower Recordings), some tunes and guitar-playing of P.G. Six and the lovely violin of Samara Lubelski.

10. Underground Horns