Author Archives: Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

Music Listings – 6/22 through 6/28/2015

1. Eric Person Duoscope

Date: Monday, June 22, 2015
Time: 8pm
Venue: Quinn’s (330 Main Street, Beacon, New York 12508)
Tickets: donation
Genre: jazz

The esteemed Hudson Valley saxophonist Eric Person — a veteran of such ensembles as World Saxophone Quartet, as well as a sideman with major artists like Dave Holland, McCoy Tyner, Chico Hamilton, Ronald Shannon Jackson, John Hicks, along with many other groups under his own leadership — brings his new project “Duoscope”, which also features drummer/percussionist Shinnosuke Takahashi, into Quinn’s for the Monday Jazz Sessions series.

2. The Welf Dorr Unit

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Concert Review: Raga Masters Come To St. Peter’s (NY) Performing Classical Indian raga

Photo by Veronique Lerebours

Photo by Veronique Lerebours

Date: Friday, June 12, 2015
Venue: St. Peter’s Chelsea Episcopal Church (NY)
Review by Dawoud Kringle

All videos and photos courtesy of HarmoNYom”s Veronique Leboures
All photos by HarmoNYom”s Veronique Lerebours

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Music Listings – 6/15 through 6/21/2015

1. InnoVe Gnawa Band & The Stooges Brass Band

Date: Monday, June 15, 2015
Time: 8pm
Venue: BROOKLYN BOWL (61 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211, 718-963-3369)
Ticket: $8 – $10
Genre: Gnawa & New Orleans brass music

Innove Gnawa Band is a gnawa band comprised of artists from different parts of Morocco. Led by master Maalem Hassan BenJaafer, InnoVe Gnawa celebrates this ancient spiritual music of North Africa in NYC with an innovative, hypnotic, and ecstatic take on this trance-inducing folk tradition.
Stooges Brass Band has earned their rank as one of the elite brass bands in New Orleans. The band consistently provides a welcome blast of true New Orleans spirit engaging audiences with their innovative blend of traditional New Orleans brass sounds, contemporary jazz and hip-hop beats. Continue reading →