Date: Monday, October 6, 2014
Time: 10:30 – 11:30pm
Venue: Rockwood Music Hall (196 Allen St, New York, New York 10002)
Ticket: $10
Genre: progressive jazz/Gypsy music
Now Vs Now is a progressive-electro-jazz-rock trio headed by Jason Lindner (keyboards) & featuring Panagiotis Andreou (bass) & Mark Guiliana (drums).
Date: Monday, September 29, 2014
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012, Phone: 212- 505-3474)
Ticket: $20
Genre: classical/cello music/contemporary music
Oliver Coates makes his NYC debut at Le Poisson Rouge on 9/29/14 with a night of long melodies over cello drones, shimmering textures degrading Chopin samples and a unique collaboration with legends of downtown dance music and minimalism Zummo, Brooks and Ruyle. Coates plays soundtrack music from Under the Skin by Mica Levi, Bach, Xenakis, arrangements of Squarepusher Tommib Help Buss and Messiaen Oraison and drone pieces for polyphonic curved bow and electronics.
He will then perform with composer and trombonist Peter Zummo and his regular collaborators Ernie Brooks and Bill Ruyle. These three have collaborated closely with the late cellist Arthur Russell, and with each other, since the late 1970s, as well as serving time in such legendary outfits as the Lounge Lizards (Zummo), the Modern Lovers (Brooks) and LaMama (Ruyle). The performance serves as a prelude to a UK sextet tour around Zummo’s music with Ralph Cumbers (Bass Clef) and Kevin McIvor (DJ Twitch from Optimo). Continue reading
Date: Monday, September 22 through Sunday, September 28, 2014
Time: 11am to 7pm
Studio: FlickerLab (78 Crosby Street, Suite: #203, NY, NY 10012)
Ticket: free
Genre: exhibition and music
Animation and technology studio FlickerLab is leaving their studios in SoHo and headed to Dumbo, Brooklyn. In celebration of this transformation and farewell, FlickerLab is sponsoring the exhibition Are We Already Gone? Artists On the Art of Leaving, a Time-Mark after their 15 years in Manhattan. Read more here: https://doobeedoobeedoo.info/?p=21614&preview=true
Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012, Phone: 212- 505-3474)
Ticket: $18
Genre: jazz
Featuring also Steven Bernstein, Tony Scherr, Briggan Krauss, Kenny Wollesen, Greg Saunier (of Deerhoof), Doug Wieselman, and Adam Brisbin
Sex Mob began merely as a setting to feature the slide trumpet of leader Steven Bernstein, but has grown into a band with a much larger mission: to put the fun back in jazz music. After assembling the band (Bernstein, slide trumpet; Briggan Krauss, alto sax; Tony Scherr, bass; Kenny Wollesen, drums), Sex Mob began a residency at the Knitting Factory, playing predominantly originals written by Bernstein. During a special evening of film music, the crowd went crazy for the “James Bond Theme,” and Bernstein realized that the audience was much more attuned to their playing when they recognized the tune. The band started to expand their songbook, but not to the same old, tired jazz standards. Songs by Prince, the Grateful Dead, the Rolling Stones, and even the “Macarena” could find their way into a Sex Mob set, the only rule being that the song had to have such a strong melody that it could withstand serious deconstruction. Bernstein said in Jazz Asylum, “I realize that’s what jazz musicians have always done. That’s how Lester Young got popular; it’s how Charlie Parker got popular; it’s how Miles Davis got popular; that’s how John Coltrane got popular. They played the songs that everyone knew and because they could recognize the song, then that invited them into their style.”
Photo courtesy of Ribab Fusion
Artist: Ribab Fusion
Date: September 24, 2014
Venue: Rockwood Music Hall II , New York, NY
Genre: world music/modern Moroccan traditional music
To really make a monochord like the Amazigh (Berber) ribab sing, you have to have the chops of Jimi Hendrix. Or so insists Foulane Bouhssine of Ribab Fusion, who’s on a mission to turn the bowed, one-string fiddle into a furiously funky sign of a new era.
