Category Archives: NY Musicians

TriBeCaStan new live footage!

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TriBeCaStan are: John Kruth – mandolin, mandocello, banjo, flute, harmonica, Irish whistle
Jeff Greene – marimba, yayli tambor, mandolin, hurdy gurdy, flutes
Todd Isler – drums
Dave Dreiwitz – bass
John Turner – trumpet
Kenny Margolis – accordion
Ibrahim Gonzalez – conga, percussion
with guests:
Matt Darriau – clarinet, alto sax, bagpipe, kaval
Steve Turre – trombone, conch shells

Performing live in Soho Jan 7, 2011

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Introducing Satish and his FIREBIRD?!

Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

Since coming to New York I have been hungry to see and meet all kinds of musicians. I have met so many great musicians meanwhile that I decided to feature some of them in DooBeeDooBeeDoo. So when my guitarist, Alejandro Castellano, talked about an Indian-American trumpet player by the name of Satish, I immediately got interested in this gentleman. I liked the idea that an Indian-American plays the valve/slide trumpet and incorporates Indian scales and sounds in his music.

I asked him to hook me up with Satish. He emailed me his Facebook address and his website. In his website, which was very interesting, I found out about his projects and music background. After doing my Satish research I decided to meet him in person which happened at Nublu, October 29th, when he was playing with the Underground Horns.

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Linebreak: Poetics of Iran in Brooklyn, New York.


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Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

Let me introduce a new Iranian-Turkish music and poetry project from Brooklyn, New York: Linebreak. 

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Daniel Schnyder’s “SUNDIATA KEITA” concert with the RSB at the Philharmonie Berlin 6 Mai, 2009!

Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

One important activity in life is to interact with people around you. Every day you meet people here and there. If you like them and care for them, they become friends later. Or the other extreme way…they could become enemies. Music, which is an element and part of life, is also about interaction. Such as the interaction between a musician and his audience, between a composer and the orchestra performing his composition, between musicians and musicians of the same group.

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