Review by Dawoud Kringle
Roulette hosted the 19th Annual Vision Festival. At their venue in Brooklyn, the excitement in the air was quite noticeable. The line up that Arts for Art put together promised to be a great event.
As I arrived, I caught the end of CHILE / NEW YORK / AfghanIRAQ, a film by Michael Lucio Sternbach and Zak Sherzad celebrating the work of artist Jeff Schlanger.
This was followed by the poet Steve Dalachinsky, who
Date: Monday, June 16, 2014
Time: 7:30pm to 11pm
Venue: Clemente Soto Velez Center (107 Suffolk St, New York, NY 10002)
Tickets: $11 per set
Genre: jazz/improv
7:30PM – 8:30PM – Celestial MoonBeamsFunk
Sabir Mateen – sax & voice
Daniel Carter – trumpet & voice
Mazz Swift – violin & voice
Todd Nicholson – bass & voice
Patricia Nicholson – dance & voice
T.A. Thompson – drums & voice
8:45PM – 9:45PM – Sabir Mateen’s Omni Sound
Warren Smith – percussion
Hilliard Greene – bass
Matt Lavelle – brass
Sabir Mateen – woodwinds
Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi
I totally agree with Ari in all the things he says in this podcast interview about how “freelancing” musicians or bands need to deal with clubs.. Actually, I’ve been advising musicians around me almost the same things. I think that the time has come that musicians and bands know how to deal with clubs. Yes, you can’t play for free anymore, as far as you’re professional and live from your music. But you have to collaborate with clubs to make a gig a success. As a musician you need to know what your responsibilities are. You need to know how clubs make business. You just can’t ask for a guaranty and expect that a crowd will show up. On the contrary, it’s very important that musicians can negotiate things with the clubs. You have to be flexible in your demands. Being a musician means to be the composer-performer and your own manager at the same time. In fact, you make yourself famous and the clubs could be a great help for you. But you need to know how to deal and work with them.
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Review by Dawoud Kringle
Photo by Marylin Schwartz
A grainy, seemingly vintage film of a music aficionado thumbing through a stack of records, and pulling out an LP of the New York Art Quartet forms a silent, yet eloquent imagery. Putting the vinyl on a turntable, the sound of free jazz greets us. Flash forward to the present day. Older master jazz musicians set up their instruments, and begin playing a free form music over which a poetic voice declares, “Everything that you don’t understand is explained in art.”
Date: Monday, June 9, 2014
Time: 7:30pm to 11pm
Venue: Clemente Soto Velez Center (107 Suffolk St, New York, NY 10002)
Tickets: $11 per set
Genre: jazz/improv
7:30PM – 8:30PM – Steve Swell/Reggie Nicholson
Steve Swell – trombone
Reggie Nicholson – drums
8:45PM – 9:45PM – Davis/Ishenko/Spanos
On Ka’a Davis – guitar, violin
Dimitry Ishenko – bass
George Spanos – drums
10:00PM – 11:00PM – Steve Band
Steve Swell – trombone
Rob Brown – alto sax
Larry Roland – bass
Reggie Nicholson – drums
