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1. Fay Victor The ExPosed Blues Duo
Date: Monday, July 4, 2011
Time: 7pm
Venue: The 55 Bar (55 Christopher St., (Sixth/Seventh Avenue), New York, ( 212 ) 929-9883)
Ticket: $10
Genre: nu blues
Fay Victor-voice & Anders Nilsson-guitar
The Exposed Blues Duo is collaboration between guitarist Anders Nilsson and Fay Victor that has become an improvising blues duo using true blues, blues based material and all the wails and flails they can muster. With pieces ranging from the Rev. Gary Davis, Leroy Carr, Elmer Snowden, Herbie Nichols and Memphis Slim alongside free improvisation and original tunes
2. Leni Stern Band
Date: Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Time: 10pm
Venue: The 55 Bar (55 Christopher St., (Sixth/Seventh Avenue), New York, ( 212 ) 929-9883)
Ticket: $10
Genre: West African music
Leni Stern’s music is inspired by Malian and Senegalese culture. Clearly the German-born, New York-based singer-songwriter-guitarist has found her roots in West Africa. She recorded at singer Salif Keita’s studio in Bamako, Malis. The lineup is: Leni voc and guitar, Mamadou Ba on electric bass, Brahim Fribgane on oud and cajon, Kofu on talking drum and Harvey Wirht on percussion!
3. Mark Miller Septet
Date: Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Time: 10pm
Venue: Miles’ Cafe Jazz Club (212 E 52nd St (3rd Floor), NYC)
Ticket: $10
Genre: Blues / Jazz / Rock
Mark grew up in Racine, Wisconsin and attended nearby Carthage College. In 1992 he moved to Minneapolis to study at the University of Minnesota with Tom Ashworth and Ron McCurdy. An ever-present sound on the Twin Cities music scene in the 1990s, he played with and composed for Motion Poets, Slide Huxtable, Happy Apple, and Jeanay Say Qua. Mark also performed with the Latin Sounds Orchestra, Salsa Del Soul, and the Intergalactic Contemporary Ensemble. Read more about him. Line up: Mark Miller – trombone, Cliff Lyons – saxes, Anton Denner – saxes, Nicki Denner – piano, Sean Harkness – guitar, Gary Wang – bass and William “Beaver” Bausch – drums.
4. Khaira Arby w. SWAY MACHINERY and NETTLE
Time: 8pm
Venue: Brooklyn Bowl (61 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, 718.963.3369)
Ticket: $5 – $10
Genre: Mail folk music/world/Africa
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleeker Street, New York, NY, 212.505.3474)
Ticket: $15
KhaIra Arby was born in the village of Abaradjou in the Sahara Desert north of Timbuktu. Khaira’s parents came from different ethnic backgrounds, mother Songhai and father Berber. You can hear these cultures in her music; she sings in several languages. The instrumentation and rhythms are just as varied with electric guitar and bass, calabash, ngoni, traditional violin, and percussion creating a complex mixture of sound and structure. Some people compare the effect to the rhythms of the camel caravans crossing the Sahara, others to the cosmopolitan city of Timbuktu. By her mid twenties, KhaIRa had made her first recording with the Orchestre Regional de Tombouctou and after a short time was invited to sing with the famous Orchestre Badema in Bamako, the nation’s capitol. She continued to earn her stripes beside such Malian stars as her cousin, Ali Farka Toure and the widely influential Fissa Maiga. Since 1990 KhaIra has focused all her energies on her music. With three albums in her own name and a fourth recently released in August 2010 she is the Voice of Mali’s North. KhaIra sings in many desert traditions and her music takes the listener on an audio journey across the essence of Mali and Tombouctou, a meeting of compass points, religions, cultures, past and present. In 2006 she was named a Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mali. In August 2010, KhaIra and her band toured the United States and Canada performing to rave reviews at venues ranging from small Harlem nightclubs to the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. This tour coincided with the international release of her latest album, Timbuktu Tarab, which has been critically hailed as one of the best new albums of 2010.
Concert review of his artist in DBDBD!
5. Barbez and Anthony Coleman’s Sephardic Tinge
Date: Friday, July 8, 2011
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleeker Street, New York, NY, 212.505.3474)
Ticket: $12
Genre: free Jazz/ experimental rock/gypsy/cabaret
Barbez
Gorgeous old-world cabaret collides with modernity in this unique Brooklyn-based ensemble. Wringing elements of Eastern European folksong, post-war classical, and experimental rock into an otherworldly soundscape, Barbez shifts elegantly between haunting, meditative moments and explosive outbreaks. The group will be presenting several new pieces from a forthcoming recording inspired by ancient Roman-Jewish melodies, as well as new music for a separate album concerning the wars in the Middle East since 9/11. With Dan Kaufman, guitar; Danny Tunick, vibes, marimba; Peter Hess, clarinet, percussion; Catherine McRae, violin; Peter Lettre, bass; John Bollinger, drums.
Anthony Coleman’s Sephardic Tinge
Sephardic Tinge, one of the most compelling projects of legendary downtown pianist and composer Anthony Coleman, blends jazz and Sephardic themes in a sublime and elegant manner. The project began in the mid-90s, when, as Coleman puts it: “I started thinking about the music which had accompanied most of my life in some way or another, I thought about the fact that the Mambo and Cha-Cha had both been dance crazes in the Borscht Belt during the ’40s and ’50s. I thought about Sephardic (Spanish) Jews and how strange and mysterious I had always found the idea of their language, Ladino. I added to this the uses that jazz composers have made of what Jelly Roll Morton called the ‘Spanish tinge,’ Habanera and Mambo patterns, montunos.” In his long and distinguished career Coleman has toured and recorded with John Zorn, Elliott Sharp, Marc Ribot, Shelley Hirsch, Roy Nathanson, among many others, and is currently on the faculty of the New England Conservatory where he teaches jazz and composition.
6. Day In Pictures
Date: Saturday 9, 2011
Time: 4pm-6pm
Venue: Barbes (376 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY)
Ticket: $10
Genre: modern jazz
DAY IN PICTURES is saxophonist and clarinetist Matt Bauder’’s latest band. Downbeat Magazine described the recent debut album as “modern jazz of a half-century past, with an instrumetal line-up and compositions that echoes classic efforts from Prestige, Columbia and Blue Note catalogs with nary a whiff of condescencion or dabbling.” With Matt Bauder – Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet; Justin Walter – Trumpet; Kris Davis – Piano; Jason Ajemian – Bass and Chad Taylor – Drums.
4-5pm Open Rehearsal
5-6pm Performance
