Date: Monday, April 7, 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
7:30 Rob Brown/ Daniel Levin
Rob Brown – alto
Daniel Levin – cello
8:45 Rob Brown Quartet
Kenny Warren – trumpet
Peter Betenc – bass
Juan Pablo Carletti – drums
Text by Kosi
My name is Kosi. You’ve probably met me at an open mic, or you heard me singing “Summertime” in the subway tunnel in the dead of winter. You may have heard me performing at bars and music venues across the city with my trusty sidekick, Aron Marchak. I was the girl in the dress crouching in her high heels. It’s nice to see you again, friend. Perhaps, wherever it is that you met me, you picked up my debut solo album, One More Cup of Coffee, which I released last year. Perhaps you enjoyed it and maybe that’s why you’re here.
Well, I’m at it again, and this time I’m bringing more of my very talented friends along. My second album, Pictures of Us, will feature some of the finest jazz musicians in New York City. Aron was fantastic in my first album, and yes, he will be featured prominently in this one as well, but more musicians means more possibilities to explore. If you liked my first album, you’ll love what we’re doing now.
Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi
Finally the Justice For Jazz Artists (J4JA) campaign’s leader John O’ Connor published the letter in Allegro (http://www.local802afm.org/2014/03/its-about-time/) which was written by seven prominent jazz musicians: Ron Carter, Jason Moran, Bob Cranshaw, Bill Frisell, Joe Lovano, Christian McBride and Jimmy Owens. The letter was sent to the owners and management teams at the Blue Note, the Jazz Standard and Birdland around November 2013 with the intention to get the owners of these clubs to the negotiation table. I can’t understand, why they didn’t send the same letter to the other jazz three clubs: the Village Vanguard, Iridium and Dizzy’s, and why it took so much time to publish it?
Apparently the club owners haven’t responded yet which proves again that this kind of communication and strategy can’t do anything good for the J4JA campaign. What is worse: after sending out the letter, Ron Carter, Joe Lovano, Bill Frisell and Christian McBride continue to play at the Blue Note which is unacceptable?! All these musicians should re-think, why they have been endorsing the J4JA campaign. Sending that letter out and yet performing at these clubs is just contra productive. This behavior makes them and jazz musicians in general look stupid and would show that jazz musicians are as greedy as the club owners. I can’t agree with John O’Conners’s comment “The letter…illustrate the commitment that musicians are making to the Justice For Jazz Artists campaign.”
Artist: Mem Nahadr
Title: Femme Fractale
Label: Madwoman Multimedia
Genre: Neo Soul/R&B
Release date: April 8, 2013
CD Review by Dawoud Kringle
Mem Nahadr, a New York City based internationally acclaimed singer, songwriter, performance artist film composer, author, independent filmmaker and multidisciplinary video/sonic visionary, has composed an operatic vision.
Text by by Trichordist Editor
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