When: Sunday, January 31 at 8:00 PM
Where: The Living Theater, 21 Clinton Street (between Stanton and Houston Streets)
Price: $6
Organized by Dorothy Friedman August and special reading by Judith Malina.
Text by Tanja Laden
Based on a 2001 symposium at the Getty Research Institute, Harry Smith: The Avant-Garde in the American Vernacular surveys the artist’s influence on American film, music, and the visual arts.
Featuring color reproductions of Smith’s images, as well as essays by scholars, friends, and colleagues, the book explores the life of the 20th-century Renaissance man best known for his definitive Anthology of American Folk Music — a six-record compilation of commercial songs from 1926-1932 that helped facilitate the folk revival of the ’60s. The multifaceted mystic also achieved cult-hero status in the world of cinema for his experimental films, and received critical praise for his rare, freeform abstract paintings.
Please join for a party in support of the health, wellness, and recovery of DBDBD’s good friend Fabian Alsultany on Saturday January 30th, 2010 at: (Le) Poisson Rouge 158 Bleeker Street New York, New York 10012 (212) 228-4854. Tickets: $12 (advance/door) 11PM -4 AM
The organizers are also raising funds in Fabian’s name for “Doctors Without Borders” to generate funds towards their relief efforts in Haiti.
Live performances by: Hassan Hakmoun & Zahar, Falu, Basya Schechter (Pharaoh’s Daughter), Luqmon Brown (Funkface), Malika Zarra and Haale.
Dafnis Prieto Drummer / Composer
His arrival in the U.S. has been compared by to that of an asteroid hitting New York. Indeed, within a short period of time Dafnis Prieto’s revolutionary drumming techniques had a powerful impact on both the Latin and jazz music scene, locally and internationally. Having studied at the school of Fine Arts in Santa Clara as a youngster and later at the National School of Music in Havana, Prieto obtained a thorough classical education while broadening his knowledge of Afro-Cuban music, jazz and world music outside of the academy.
He first toured Europe with pianists Carlos Maza and Ramon Valle and the groundbreaking group “Columna B.” A resident of New York since only 1999, he has already played in bands led by Henry Threadgill, Steve Coleman, Eddie Palmieri, Chico and Arturo O’Farrill, Dave Samuels & The Caribbean Jazz Project, Jane Bunnett, D.D. Jackson, Edward Simon, Michel Camilo, Chucho Valdez, Claudia Acuña, Roy Hargrove, Don Byron, and Andrew Hill, among others.
As a composer , he has created music for dance, film, chamber ensembles, and most notably for his own bands, ranging from duets to his “Small Big Band” and including the distinctively different groups featured on his three acclaimed recordings as a leader, “About The Monks,” Dafnis Prieto “Absolute Quintet” and Dafnis Prieto Sextet “Taking the Soul for a Walk”. He has received new works commissions, grants, and fellowships from Chamber Music America, Jazz at Lincoln Center, East Carolina University, and Meet the Composer. Various awards include “Up & Coming Musician of the Year” by the Jazz Journalists Association in 2006, a Grammy Award Nomination for ”Absolute Quintet” as Best Latin Jazz Album, and a Latin Grammy Nomination for “Best New Artist” in 2007. He also composed the Title track for the Grammy Winner Album “Song for Chico” by Arturo O’Farril and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra in 2008.
Testing the Limits of Collaboration – painting by Nicky Nodjoumi
Text by Jason Reza Jorjani
On August 15, 2009, in Tehran, Mir Hossein Mousavi announced the formation of The Green Path of Hope, which includes Mehdi Karroubi and Mohammad Khatami among its leadership council. Continue reading
