Category Archives: Music Listings

Music listings – 4/18 through 4/24

HARLEM FOR JAPAN BENEFIT CONCERT

Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Time: 6:30
Venue: Aaron Davis Hall (133rd and Convent Avenue, on the campus of The City College of New York)
Ticket: suggested donation is $25.00 Or donate what you can. All donations are appreciated.
Checks should be made payable to any one of these three organizations: The Japan Society, The Consulate General of Japan and The Japan Chamber of Commerce (J.C.C.). Call 212 926 2550 to RSVP
Genre: music and dance

The City College of New York, Community Works, The Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce, The Harlem Arts Alliance, Voza Rivers/New Heritage Theatre Group and Katsuya Abe invite you to HARLEM FOR JAPAN BENEFIT CONCERT. oin Rhythm and Blues legend and Grammy nominee Chuck Jackson, International Japanese artists: Toya, Yuichiro Oda, and Yuko Darjeeling, National Jazz Museum in Harlem All Star Band, Oscar and Grammy nominated IMPACT Repertory Theatre, Harlem vocalists: Janice Marie Robinson, Claude Jay, Lady Cantrese, and Lee Olive Tucker; Pianists Matthew Whitaker, Choreographer Obediah Wright and the Balance Dance Company, Keith “The Captain” Gamble, Lonnie “The Prince of Harlem” Youngblood, Jazzmobile and Manhattan School of Music Musicians and others…

FAMORO DIOUBATE’s KAKANDE

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Music listings – 4/11 through 4/17

1. Mademoiselle Fleur

Date: Monday, April 11, 2011
Time: 8pm
Venue: The Shrine (2271 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd, NY)
Ticket: donation
Genre: French Jazz

Mademoiselle Fleur is with an interesting life story involving a journey from her native Morrocco to France and now USA… Mademoiselle Fleur performs some of the most beautiful pieces of French music (with personal arrangements) and enjoys to do this in New York, this jazzy city that is now her home.

2. Neighborhood Concert: New York Arabic Orchestra, featuring Bassam Saba

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Music listings – 4/4 through 4/10

1. GATO LOCO

Date: Monday, April 4, 2011
Time: 9:30pm
Venue: Barbes (376 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY)
Ticket: $10
Genre:  Cuban Son dance music

GATO LOCO  play arrangements of early Cuban son dance hits from the 1920s-1940s. The quartet plays the great compositions of Ignacio Pinero, Arsenio Rodriguez, Chano Pozo, Quarteto Habanero, Casino De La Playa, Maria Teresa Vera, as well as traditional folk songs, all filtered through subsonic instruments played as delicately as possible. tuba, bari sax, baritone acoustic guitar, and acoustic bass guarantees that you feel the music, rather than hear it. With Stefan Zeniuk (Bari Sax), Ari Folman-Cohen (bass), Joe Exley (tuba), Clifton Hyde (baritone guitar) and Greg Stare (congas).

2. THE FELLOWSHIP BAND

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Music listings – 3/28 through 4/3

1. Avram’s Electric Kool-Aid

Date: Monday, March 28, 2011
Time: 11pm
Venue: Nublu
Ticket: $10
Genre: Funk/Jazz/improve

Inspired by Ornette Coleman’s Primetime, Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew, Moroccan Gnawa music, and Stanley Turrentine, we will be playing my original compositions, featuring improvisations by some of NYC’s most creative groove players. Avram’s Electric Kool-Aid featuring: Kenny Wessel (Guitar), Dave Phelps (Guitar), Chris Eddleton (Drums), Todd Isler (Percussion), Stuart Popejoy (Electric Bass) and Avram Fefer (Saxes and Composition).

2. Chicha Libre

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