Artist: Mazz Swift, Tomeka Reid, and Silvia Bolognesi
Title: Hear In Now
Label: Rudi Records
Genre: nu chamber music/jazz
Review by Matt Cole
Date: January 13, 2013
Venue: Webster Hall (NY)
Text by Dawoud Kringle
On Sunday,. January 13, 2013, globalFest 2013, a non-profit organization presented a festival of 12 artists within one night at New York City’s famed Webster Hall. This Herculean effort brought an amazing variety of artists from around the world. It was, with the overlapping scheduled performances, impossible to catch everyone. But for the loyal readers of DooBeeDooBeeDoo, I put every effort in covering what I could.
Kayhan Kalhor and Erdal Erzincan (photo by Dawoud Kringle)
Date: December 19, 2012
Venue: the STONE
Review by Dawoud Kringle
On a cold night close to Christmas, and close to December 21, bassist/composer/ bandleader Damon Banks appeared at The Stone.
Damon Banks is a well known bassist in New York who has worked with Miki Howard, Hassan Hakmoun, Karsh Kale, George Benson, SoSaLa, and many others. On this night, he was joined by Graham Haynes (trumpet), Manu Koch (keys), Bruce Cox (drums), and Brian Prunka (guitar and oud. Prunka also plays with Banks in SoSaLa and leads his own band Nashaz).
Artist: Tomas Doncker
Title: Power of the Trinity
Label: True Groove Records
Genre: Global Soul/R&B/Soul/touch of Ethiopian music/dub
Preview, buy and download CD here
Review by Dawoud Kringle
Text by Bill McKormick
On 12/21/12, the Mayan calendar came to an end. Many people thought the world would end on that day (and some made a pile of money from that fear). Some new age adherents interpreted the event (which was based on an actual astronomical phenomenon: the ancient Mayans were very good with observational astronomy) as signaling a shift in human consciousness; the beginning of an apotheosis.
In New York City, at the Hotel Pennsylvania, the Meta Center of New York, and New Life magazine and expo joined forces to present an event to celebrate this. They featured several people who offered a variety of presentations revolving around this theme / event.
However, there was, as I understand it, a last minute addition to the program. This was an impromptu duet between new age musician David Young, and multi-instrumentalist, iconoclast Dawoud.
