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Music listings – 5/13 through 5/19

1. JAIMEO BROWN AND TRANSCENDENCE featuring JD Allen, Chris Sholar and vocalist, Falu.

Date: Tuesday May 14, 2013
Time:  9:30pm
Venue: Drom (85 Avenue A, NY, NY 10009, 212- 777-1157)
Ticket: $19
Genre: jazz

Transcendence marks the Motéma Music debut from Jaimeo Brown, a brilliant 34-year-old drummer, composer and conceptualist. With an intriguing amalgam of modern jazz, Southern black spiritual music, East Indian Carnatic music, blues, and hip-hop/electronica production tactics, Transcendence introduces Brown as a fearless renegade – an artist who seeks new pathways for personal musical expression through honoring a deep and broad lineage of musical and cultural traditions. Brown’s chemistry with guitarist/producer Chris Sholar (Q’tip, Kanye West, Jay Z) and jazz sax titan JD Allen is extraordinary.

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Music listings – 5/6 through 5/12

1. Craig Taborn Trio

Date:  Monday, May 6, 2013
Time:  8pm
Venue: The Roulette (509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217)
Ticket: $20
Genre: jazz

Craig Taborn, piano
Thomas Morgan, double bass
Gerald Cleaver, drums

“[Taborn’s Chants]… confirms his standing as an inspired bandleader-composer, one of the smartest and slipperiest in his peer group” –The New York Times

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Music Listings – 4/22 through 4/28

1. GO: ORGANIC ORCHESTRA

Date: Monday, April 22, 2013
Time: 8pm
Venue: ShapeShifter Lab (18 Whitwell Pl, between Carroll St & 1st St, Brooklyn, NY 11215, 646-820-9452)
Ticket: $15
Genre: jazz/jazz orchstra improv

Composer Adam Rudolph returns with another series of Go: Organic Orchestra to Shapeshifter. In concert he will conduct between 20 – 35 musicians in a spontaneous way, using a newly created score of music/letter grids, language themes, tone rows, traditional and synthetic scales, diadic and intervalic harmonies, The compositions will also utilize Rudolph’s rhythm concept of “Cyclic Verticalism” to generate form and weave what he calls an “audio syncretic music fabric”. The music is “organic” in the sense that the compositions and conducting exist as an inspiration and context for the musicians to express themselves by using their instruments as an amplifier for their inner voice.

2. Soul Understated featuring Mavis “Swan” Poole

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Music listings – 4/15 through 4/21

1. Spectrum Event—James Nares’s “Street,” Featuring Thurston Moore

Date: Monday,  April 15, 2013
Time:  6:30pm until 9:00pm
Venue: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (82nd Street at 5th Avenue, New York, New York 10028)
Ticket: $22
Genre: video & music

Join Spectrum as Thurston Moore, co-founder of Sonic Youth, performs live in front of a projection of “Street,” a video by British-born artist James Nares that features Moore’s original music.

Over the course of a week in September 2011, Nares—a New Yorker since 1974—recorded sixteen hours of footage of people on the streets of Manhattan from a moving car. He then greatly slowed his source material, editing down the results to one hour of steady, continuous motion and scoring it with music for a twelve-string guitar composed and performed by Moore. Nares’s video forms the centerpiece of the exhibition “Street,” on view at the Museum through May 27, 2013.

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