Date: Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Time: 8pm
Venue: The Bowery Electric (327 Bowery, New York, NY 10003) Get Directions
Ticket: $ t.b.a.
Genre: blues, brass
The Stumblebums are an incendiary force on the New York City music scene. Even though the band has deep respect and admiration for the art of both Louis Armstrong and Nirvana; the Stumblebums reject nostalgia in favor of riotous spontaneity.
Date: Monday, August 23, 2010
Time: 9pm
Venue: Nublu (62 Avenue C, East Village, New York, NY)
Ticket: $10
Genre: Jazz/Funk
Avram’s Electric Kool-Aid is playing his original compositions, with improvisations by some of NYC’s most creative groove players. The music has a variety of influences, including Ornette Coleman’s Primetime, Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew, Moroccan Gnawa music, and Stanley Turrentine. The members are: Avram Fefer (sax), Kenny Wessel (gui),
Dave Phelps (gui), Chris Eddleton (dr) and Todd Isler (perc).
Date: Monday, August 16, 2010
Time: 8:30pm
Venue: The Delancy (768 Delancy, NY)
Ticket: free
Genre: soft-goth/ singer song writer
Ajda the Turkish Queen performing solo for the first. “My influences are both Western and Middle Eastern (Turkish mother but grew up in Texas). The songs are alternative in the vein of Sonic Youth and the Cocteau Twins, I suppose, and I have been told I have a “commanding wail-like moan”.
Date: Monday, August 9, 2010
Time: 11pm
Venue: Nublu (62 Avenue C, East Village, New York, NY)
Ticket: $10
Genre: Jazz?Funk
Avram’s Electric Kool-Aid is playing his original compositions, with improvisations by some of NYC’s most creative groove players. The music has a variety of influences, including Ornette Coleman’s Primetime, Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew, Moroccan Gnawa music, and Stanley Turrentine. The members are: Avram Fefer (sax), Aaron Whitbey (key), Dave Phelps (gui) and Chris Eddleton (dr).
Date: Monday 2, August 4, 2010
Time: 9;30pm
Venue: Barbes (376 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY)
Ticket: $10
Genre: Boogaloo, Latin Swing and Shingaling
SPANGLISH FLY. Every Monday in August.
The sounds of 1960’s Spanish Harlem. With Atsushi Tsumura, trumpet; Charly Rodriguez, timbales; Christelle Durandy, percussion; Dmitri Moderbacher, bass; Erica Ramos, lead vocals; Gabo Tomasini, percussion; Jonathan Flothow, bari sax; Jonathan Goldman a/k/a Jonny Semi-Colón, trumpet; Martin Wallace, piano; Mick Santurio, congas; Rose Imperato, tenor sax; Sebastian Isler, trombone. “What Sharon Jones did for oldschool soul, what Antibalas did for Afrobeat and what Chicha Libre is doing for chicha, Spanglish Fly is doing for bugalu. . As dance music, it’s irresistible.” — Lucid Culture
