Category Archives: Musicians

Recommended Concert: Renegade Sufi & Truculently Audacious @ Drom next Sunday!

Photo courtesy of Dawoud

Photo courtesy of Dawoud

Date: Sunday, November 24, 2013
Time: 6pm – 8pm
Venue: Drom (85 Avenue A, NY, NY 10009, 212- 777-1157)
Ticket: $1o
Genre: sitar-based electronic jazz/jazz

Renegade Sufi is an ensemble led by multi-instrumentalist/composer/improviser Dawoud who has performed and recorded with such artists as Lauryn Hill, James Blood Ulmer, and Nona Hendryx. Renegade Sufi plays a singular blend of sitar-based electronic jazz. The group expands upon classical raga with otherworldly electronics, hypnotic drum loops, and free-jazz-style improvisation to produce deep, trancelike grooves. Dawoud from the midwest, USA, yet a Muslim-Sufi somehow steeped in the mysticism of the Far East, carrying the Ravi Shankar/George Harrison banner into the next generation.

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Indiegogo Campaign (6 more days): Susan Deyhim – The House is Black: a 75-minute stage and film performance

A multimedia project inspired by the life and works of Iranian icon, poet and filmmaker, Forough Farrokhzad, presented at CAP UCLA.

(This campaign is raising funds on behalf of C3 Center For Conscious Creativity, a verified nonprofit. The campaign does not necessarily reflect the views of the nonprofit or have any formal association with it. All contributions are considered unrestricted gifts and can’t be specified for any particular purpose.)

Drummer & Composer Ronald Shannon Jackson Dies at 73 Leader of the Decoding Society also played with Ornette Coleman and many others…

Text by Jeff Tamarkin (published here: http://jazztimes.com/articles/108150-drummer-composer-ronald-shannon-jackson-dies-at-73

Ronald Shannon Jackson, a drummer and composer who worked largely within the realms of free jazz, funk and fusion, died Oct. 19, in Ft. Worth, Tex. Jackson’s passing was confirmed by his cousin, Tobi Hero, on Jackson’s Facebook page. Jackson was suffering from leukemia and had been living in a hospice. He was 73.

Jackson recorded more than 20 albums as a leader and served as a sideman with such pioneers of jazz’s avant-garde as Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman and Albert Ayler. (The drummer was in fact the only musician to work with all three.) Jackson’s band the Decoding Society, formed in 1979, incorporated contemporary elements such as rock, funk and dance and included, at various times, such now well-known players as Billy Bang, Byard Lancaster, Zane Massey, David Fiuczynski, Jef Lee Johnson, Melvin Gibbs, Robin Eubanks and Vernon Reid.

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DooBeeDoo Endorsed KICKSTARTER Campaign: “THE ZOO KEEPER’S HOUSE” – a new CD by Jemeel Moondoc

I hope to be recording a new CD titled ‘THE ZOO KEEPER’S HOUSE’ this  October 2013. This Kickstarter project was started specifically to raise funds, $3,400.00 to pay musicians for the recording session.  RelativePitch Records will cover the cost of the recording and all post production costs including distribution. However they will not pay musician fees for the recording session. This Kickstarter project will cover this short fall. Understanding the current economic situation and its effect on the recording business. especially in this small Avant-Garde Jazz market. This has become more typical than most people realize. The ‘ZOO KEEPER’S HOUSE’ will be a series of compositions by me,  performed/recorded in a variety of group settings: a duo with bass and alto sax,  trio with bass, drums and alto sax, a quartet with bass, drums, soprano sax and trumpet. a quartet with bass, drums, alto sax and piano. a quintet with bass, drums, trombone, trumpet and alto sax and a sextet with the traditional jazz rhythm section with trombone, trumpet and alto sax. The ‘ZOO KEEPER’S HOUSE’ will include compositions of the blues. ballads and the up-tempo post be-bop avant-garde jazz that I have become known for; ‘THE ZOO KEEPER’S HOUSE’ will invoke feelings and emotions that one could only imagine feeling, as we walk through the ‘ZOO KEEPER’S HOUSE’ filled and encrusted with the ageless but modern existence of mankind. – Jemeel Moondoc

Musicians slated to perform on ‘The Zoo Keeper’s House’: Jemeel Moondoc – Sax, Roy Campbell Jr. – trumpet, Steve Swell – trombone, Hill Green – bass, Newman Taylor Baker – drums, Matt Shipp – Piano.

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DooBeeDoo Endorses: the 9th NY Gypsy Festival’s Fundraising campaign!

Dear Friends & Supporters!

We are only a few days away form this year’s Gypsy Festival and turn to you today to consider donating to the ninth edition of the NY Gypsy Festival. Over the years NYGF has continued to grow as a grassroots festival supported purely by ticket purchases and without receiving any major sponsorship. For this year’s festival we have created an Indiegogo crowdsourcing campaign to supplement the ticket purchases so we can continue bringing you top notch performances with bands from different genres and corners of the world. Perks include festival passes, music from participating artists, t-shirts and special VIP packages. It is our intention to continue our labor of love and offer you the culture of a people and hope that you welcome them, as we do, with open arms. Thanks for your support in advance.

Serdar Ilhan & Mehmet Dede
NY Gypsy Festival Producers

A Message from the Producers:

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