Date: August 14, 2014
Venue: Spike Hill (NY)
Review by Dawoud Kringle
Photos and videos by Dawoud courtesy of BT3
Williamsburg Brooklyn in the summer. Nothing like it; a perfect night to hear some live music. On this night, I ventured into Spike Hill to hear BT3 .
Ben Tyree on guitar
Artist: Kali Z. Fasteau
Title: Piano Rapture
Label: Flying Note Rec
Genre: jazz/improv
CD Review by Matt Cole
Kali Z. Fasteau is an accomplished composer and multi-instrumentalist, having traveled all over the world learning and playing various woodwind and string instruments and absorbing the music of the many places she has lived and created. On Piano Rapture, she returns to her first instrument, presenting nearly an hour of spontaneous compositions for both solo piano and small ensemble. Her collaborators on this project include reed players Kidd Jordan, L. Mixashawn Rozie, and J.D. Parran; and percussionist Ron McBee.
Photo courtesy of GREX
Date: Friday, July 25, 2014
Venue: Spectrum (NY)
Review by Dawoud Kringle
Artist: The Bushwick Hotel
Title: Graffiti of the Young Man’s Mind
Label: self produced
Genre: indie rock
CD Review by Dawoud Kringle
One of the most interesting, although potentially incongruous, manifestations of American music is when jazz musicians play rock / pop music. Of course, there is nothing new about this. Frank Beecher of rock & roll pioneers Bill Haley and the Comets was a jazz musician. The musicians who played on the Motown soul and R&B hits of yesteryear came from a jazz tradition. And who can forget Steely Dan, who mixed jazz to pop, and unintentionally had young rock audiences believing they’d invented major 7th chords? When jazz musicians enter the rock/pop world, they invariably make a contribution to the music that rock musicians along rarely can.
Text by Hans Tammen (producer of the Dark Circuits Festival 2014)
Date: Saturday, June 14 through Monday, June 23, 2014
Venues: Harvestworks, REVERSE, Silent Barn, Outpost Artists Resources, Spectrum, MakeMusicNY, The Firehouse, Eyebeam and Shapeshifter Lab.
Genre: contemporary electronic music
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