1. Alexander McCabe 4
Date: Monday, October 18, 2010
Time: 8pm & 9pm
Venue: Rosie O’Grady’s (149 West 46 Street, New York, NY 10036)
Ticket: $20 (for both sets) includes 1 Drink
Genre: Jazz
Alexander McCabe is a saxophonist and composer. Originally from Boston, he has been performing in and around the New York City area since the 1980’s. Alexander was a featured soloist with the Ray Charles Orchestra and was an original member, and toured with, the Chico O’Farril Afro-Cuban big band.
Members: Paul Odeh on piano, Ugonna Okegwo on bass and Rudy Royston on drums
2. BRIM: Eve Beglarian\’s River Project Band
Date: Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Time: 8:30pm
Venue: The Roulette (20 Greene St., NY)
Ticket: $15
Genre: chamber, choral, and orchestral music
BRIM is a new performance project created to perform the music Eve Beglarian has been writing in response to her four-month trip down the Mississippi River by kayak and bicycle in 2009.
The current line-up of BRIM is Mary Rowell (one of Eve’s fellow-travelers on the River journey) on violin, vocals, and mandolin, Cristian Amigo on guitar and vocals, along with Eve doing vocals, keyboard, bass, and electronics. BRIM will be joined this evening by special guests including pianist Lara Downes and the trombone quartet Guidonian Hand for a show that promises to be a celebratory introduction to a whole new phase of Eve’s work.
3. Kiko Klaus
Date: Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Time: pm
Venue: Nublu (62 Ave C)
Ticket: free
Genre: afro-brazil
Kiko Klaus is getting noticed as one of the most promising artists of the Brazilian musical scene. Klaus has a great voice and a unique style that easily mixes Afro-Brazilian rhythms like maracatu, ciranda, samba with percussive elements from Candomblé and Umbanda rituals.
4. Toby Driver w/ Tartar Lamb 2 – new premieres
Date: Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Time: 8:30pm
Venue: The Roulette (20 Greene St., NY)
Ticket: $15
Genre: avant-electronic
TARTAR LAMB is an avant-electroacoustic band hailing from New York City, led by composer Toby Driver. Their hallucinatory music has its roots in doom-goth, progressive rock, and new age, and has combined these influences with their experiences in the modern classical and avant-jazz worlds of downtown New York to create a completely unique, complex, heartbreaking, and meticulously composed genreless sound all their own. Tonight at Roulette, TARTAR LAMB will be performing their 2010 four-movement suite, “Polyimage of Known Exits,” a terrifying take on euthanasia and regret. “Polyimage…” features heavy electric bass, piles of delay pedals, brutal noise, processed woodwinds, demented melodies, and haunted vocals in glacial freefall around the galactic moebius of Kronos. Following this, Driver and the members of Tartar Lamb will premiere new material in a similar vein.
5. My Pet Dragon @ CMJ 2010 Music Marathon
Date: Thursday, October 21, 2010
Time: 8pm – 9pm
Venue: The Trash Bar (256 Grand Street, Brooklyn, NY)
Ticket: t.b.a.
Genre: indie rock
My Pet Dragon are Todd Michaelsen and Reena Shah combining elements of rock, pop, electronica, folk and experimental music, My Pet Dragon will be releasing a maxi single entitled “Flow”.
6. Fishbone w/ Noah featuring Wu-Tang Killa Beez: Prodigal Sun, Shyheim and Choco and Tamar-kali
Date: Friday, October 22, 2010
Time: 7 pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012, ph: 212- 505-3474)
Ticket: $20
Genre: alternative, punk, ska, rock and roll
Fishbone is an alternative rock band that plays a fusion of ska, punk rock, reggae, funk, heavy metal and more. The band was formed in 1979 in the ghettos of South Central Los Angeles by Angelo Moore, also known as “Dr. Madd Vibe” (vocals, saxophones ranging from sopranino to bass, and theremin); Kendall Jones (guitar); John Norwood Fisher (bass); Philip “Fish” Fisher (drums); “Dirty” Walter A. Kibby II (vocals, trumpet); and Chris Dowd (keyboards, trombone). The group came from the same Los Angeles scene that spawned the Minutemen, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jane’s Addiction.
The other bands sharing the night with Fishbone are: Noah featuring Wu-Tang Killa Beez: Prodigal Sun, Shyheim and Choco, and Tamar-kali
7. NOMO + In Tall Buildings
Date: Saturday, October 23 , 2010
Time: 9pm
Venue: Zebulon (258 Wythe Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211)
Ticket: donation
Genre: Afrobeat/world jazz/indie rock
Nomo were conceived in 2003 when University of Michigan jazz studies graduate and multi-instrumentalist (tenor sax, keyboards, electric mbiri) Elliot Bergman and some of his acquaintances began jamming at an Ann Arbor, MI, house where many of them lived. This led to the eventual formation of the group. THE WASHINGTON POST says: Elliot Bergman’s Nomo is one of the tightest, swingingest Afrobeat world-jazz bands on the planet.
In Tall Buildings is Erik Hall . He is a natural multi-instrumentalist, equally at home playing electric guitar and percussion in NOMO, fuzzed-out bass in His Name Is Alive, or Motown-inspired drums in Saturday Looks Good To Me. He is a one man band.
8. Jordan McLean: Piano Music & Song Trio Anneke
Date: Sunday, October 24, 2010
Time: 10pm
Venue: The Stone (is located at the corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street)
Ticket: $10
Genre: contemporary
The ideals of Elegant Dissonance set the artistic direction of this play-any-where chamber group. Original orchestrations of the music of Federico Mompou is the featured repertoire, and the music of Charles Ives, Samuel Barber, Benjamin Britten, Siberian and Turkish folk songs, TV on the Radio, and Mr. McLean’s original work round out the groups’ repertoire. Members are: Jordan Mclean (trumpet), Anneke: Schaul-Yoder (cello), Derin Oge (piano),
Jordan McLean (trumpet, orchestrations) and Amir Ziv (percussion).
