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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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Music Listings – 9/2 through 9/8/2013

1. Kinan Azmeh

Date: Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Joe’s Pub (425 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10003, 212-967-7555)
Tickets: $20
Genre: between Jazz, classical music, and the music of his homeland, Syria

Syrian clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh is the first Arab to win the first prize at the Nicolay Rubinstein international competition in Moscow 1997. A graduate of the Juilliard School in New York, the High Institute of Music and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Damascus. He is currently working towards his music doctoral degree at the City University of New York.

Kinan has appeared as soloist, composer and improviser worldwide including The Library of Congress, The Kennedy Center, Opera Bastille, Berlin’s Philharmonie, The Mozarteum, Carnegie Hall, UN’s General Assembly and the Damascus Opera for its opening concert. He has shared the stage and recorded with artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Daniel Barenboim, Marcel Khalife, Aynur and Zakir Hussein.

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