Category Archives: Music Listings

Music Listings – 10/7 through 10/13/13

1. Kavita Shah’s VISIONS

Date: Monday,  October 7, 2013
Time: 8pm to 9pm
Venue: ShapeShifter Lab (18 Whitwell Pl, between Carroll St & 1st St, Brooklyn, NY 11215, 646-820-9452)
Ticket: $12
Genre: traditional sounds of the Indian tablas and West African kora interlaced with jazzy elements
Hailed by Downbeat as Best Graduate Jazz Vocalist (2012) and winner of an ASCAP Young Jazz Composers Award (2013), Kavita Shah makes her debut with “Visions.” Co produced by renowned Benin-born guitarist Lionel Loueke (Herbie Hancock, Terence Blanchard), “Visions” features the traditional sounds of the Indian tablas and West African kora interlaced with those of a jazz quintet. In the musical conversation that ensues, a surprisingly fresh, genre-bending sound is born: one anthematic of Ms. Shah’s multiculural, global generation.

Kavita Shah – voice, arrangements, compositions
Yacouba Sissoko – kora
Stephen Cellucci – tablas
Michael Valeanu – guitar
Guy Mintus – piano
Sam Anning – bass
Guilhem Flouzat – drums

+ Special Guest Adam O’Farrill

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Music Listings – 9/30 through 10/6/2013

1. Timo Vollbrecht NY & Drew Williams Nonet

Date: Monday, September 30, 2013
Time: 8pm & 9pm
Venue: LaunchPad (721 Franklin Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11238)
Ticket: $5
Genre: jazz

8pm – The four jazz musicians who sign under the name of the Timo Vollbrecht New York Group are passionate improvising artists. This explains the diverse, dynamic and at the same time constantly creative musical style of this New York based group. The musicians, who come from different continents, bring their cultural backgrounds to the bandstand in order to collectively explore the unknown. Melodic elements from classical music merge with the colorful harmonies and intricate rhythms of jazz, creating a vibrant, genuine sound.
They were brought together by the city of New York: Here, German saxophonist Timo Vollbrecht and Berliner guitarist of Japanese origin Keisuke Matsuno met bassist Sam Anning (Australia) and drummer Jason Burger (USA). Their high quality of musicianship, as well as the looseness with which they improvise, make this band a powerful cultural cocktail that captivates the audience from the first note on.

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Music Listings – 9/23 through 9/29/2013

1. Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi (from SoSaLa)

Date: Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Time: 8:30pm til 9:30
Venue: Cafe Nadery – Manhattan (16 W8th Street, New York, New York 10011)
Ticket: donation
Genre: nu world trash

Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi is from New York, an Iranian musician, band leader of SoSaLa, music activist, editor of the music on-line magazine DooBeeDooBeeDoo NY , guest lecturer…and martial arts master in Kendo (Japanese sword fencing). He moved to NY from Tokyo, Japan in 2008. In 2009 during the Green Movement in NY he played his sax in front of thousands of Iranian-American people at places, such as Union Square, Columbus Circle, in front of the UN, Brooklyn Bridge, NYU, Columbia University and at various panels. 

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Music Listings – 9/9 through 9/15/2013

1. Tomás Doncker Band and the True Groove Global Soul Family

Date: Monday,  September 9, 2013
Times: 8pm & 10:30 pm
Venue: Blue Note (131 West 3rd St., New York, NY 10012, 212-475-8592)
Tickets:  $10/$15
Genre: jazz/funk/Ethiopian

As a prime mover on New York’s downtown “No Wave” scene in the early 1980s, Tomas Doncker cut his teeth as a guitarist with such genre-busting groups as James Chance & The Contortions, Defunkt, J. Walter Negro & The Loose Jointz and many more. Eventually he went international, touring and recording in Japan with jazz pianist Masabumi Kikuchi, and producing studio and songwriting sessions with Boosty Collins, Yoko Ono, jazz saxophonist Sadao Watanabe and Grammy-winning producer Prince Charles Alexander, Ivan Neville (on his solo album Thanks), Bonnie Raitt, Meshell Ndegeocello, …and the list keeps growing. –

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