1. Lauren Lee “Space Jazz” Trio w. GOSPEL OF MARS
Date: Monday, December 8, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: Tea Lounge (837 Union St., bet. 6th & 7th Aves., Park Slope, Brooklyn)
Ticket: $10
Genre: jazz
With influences ranging from bebop and free jazz to glam rock and romanticism, Lauren Lee‘s “Space Jazz” Trio takes you on a whirlwind, abbreviated tour through music history with a very modern, sophisticated, and exciting flavor palate sure to please even the most discerning music lover. Featuring Charley Sabatino on bass and Andy O’Neill on drums.
GOSPEL OF MARS: band started on July 16 2012 as a duo between Jef Brown and Aaron Moore with a gig at Zebulon in Brooklyn. Bob Jones joined on double bass in December 2012 and Marcus Cummins joined on soprano and alto sax in April of 2013. Influenced by Can, Kraftwerk, Coltrane, Mulatu Eshete, Ornette Coleman, Mahmoud Ahmend, Fela Kuti, Chico Hamilton, and more, more, more!
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2. Manu Koch & Filtron M – CD Release Party
Date: Monday, December 8, 2014
Time: 9pm
Venue: Iridium (1650 Broadway New York, NY 10019, 212-582-2121)
Ticket: $20
Genre: jazz/Latin jazz/fusion jazz
In the age of musical and cultural multiplicity keyboardist, pianist and composer Manu Koch has created the platform Filtron M to present his blend of sounds with a wide range of extraordinary musicians. A New York resident since 2000 he has toured internationally with Afro Pop icon Angélique Kidjo, the New York Gypsy All-Stars, collaborated on projects with Miles Davis/Santana bassist Benny Rietveld and since 2011 has become a vital element in various productions by singer/songwriter/guitarist Tomás Doncker.
Filtron M’s first recording Mandatory Underground is released on Doncker’s True Groove label and showcases the band units Unique Afrique and Astoria Roots. The latter will be featured at this CD Release Party which includes bassist Panagiotis Andreou, drummer Mauricio Zottarelli and percussionist Sebastian Nickoll, who collectively have worked with artists such as Hiromi, Esperanza Spalding, Lee Ritenour, Eliane Elias, Wayne Krantz, Now vs Now, Pedrito Martinez Group, Ralph Irizarry & Timbalaye and many more.
Chilean vocalist/guitarist Camila Meza and kanun master Tamer Pinarbasi from Turkey will join the Astoria Roots unit and promise an exciting night of eclectic music.
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3. Tesla Coils
Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Time: 9pm – 10pm
Venue: Nublu (62 Ave C, NY)
Ticket: $10
Genre: free jazz/improv/electro-acoustic sound scapes
Tesla Coils – Blaise Siwula reeds, Harvey Valdes tesla guitar and Gian Luigi Diana laptop will present their unique electro-acoustic sound. Their first CD Tesla Coils on Setola-Di Miale is available and receiving positive reviews. Great time to check them out in the intimate and warm Nublu.
4. FLY MAGIC
Date: Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Time: 7pm
Venue: Whynot Jazz Room (14 Christopher Street, New York, New York 10014, 646-756-4145)
Ticket: $t.b.a.
Genre: jazz
FLY MAGIC‘s dynamic and emotive music merges the free spirit of Berlin with the urban vibrancy of NYC and combines elements of jazz with minimalism, classical, post-rock and today’s song culture. The quartet features Timo Vollbrecht– sax, Keisuke Matsuno-guitar, Sam Anning-bass, and Nathan Ellman-bell-drums.
5. Sarah Cahill and Adam Tendler present the second and final BERIO
Date: Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Time: 7pm
Venue: The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University (1161 Amsterdam Ave, New York, New York 10027)
Ticket: $t.b.a.
Genre: experimental classical music/modern music
“Maverick pianists” (The New Yorker) Sarah Cahill and Adam Tendler present the second and final BERIO IN NYC concert at Columbia University’s Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America.
The program focuses on the complex and diverse piano works that pioneering experimental Italian composer Luciano Berio composed while living in New York City, including Erdenklavier (1969), Cinque Variazione (1952/3, rev. 1966), Rounds (1967), Sequenza IV (1965/66), Wasserklavier (1965), and the rarely-performed “Memory” for electric piano and electric harpsichord (1969/73).
Cahill and Tendler will also present later works, including Feuerklavier (1989) and the miniatures Touch (1991) and Canzonetta (1991) for piano four-hands, and throughout the program will deliver a lecture that Berio presented at New York’s Hunter College in 1965.
Sarah Cahill, recently called “fiercely gifted” by the New York Times and “as tenacious and committed an advocate as any composer could dream of” by the San Francisco Chronicle, has commissioned, premiered, and recorded numerous compositions for solo piano. Composers who have dedicated works to her include John Adams, Terry Riley, Frederic Rzewski, Pauline Oliveros, Annea Lockwood, and Evan Ziporyn, and she has also premiered pieces by Lou Harrison, Julia Wolfe, Ingram Marshall, Toshi Ichiyanagi, George Lewis, Leo Ornstein, and many others.
Adam Tendler has been called “an exuberantly expressive pianist” who “vividly displayed his enthusiasm for every phrase” by The Los Angeles Times, a “maverick pianist” by The New Yorker, a “modern-music evangelist” by Time Out New York, and an “intrepid” pianist” who “has managed to get behind and underneath the notes, living inside the music and making poetic sense of it all,” by The Baltimore Sun, who continued, “if they gave medals for musical bravery, dexterity and perseverance, Adam Tendler would earn them all.” His new memoir, “88×50,” about the fifty-state tour he conducted out of his car, is a 2014 Kirkus Indie Book of the Month and Lambda Literary Award Nominee.
6. Adventures in Bluesland
Date: Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Time: 10pm
Venue: Falucka Lounge NYC (162 Bleecker St, New York, New York 10012)
Ticket: free (for free admission just say you’re there to see the band)
Genre: blues/rock/soul
Adventures in Bluesland feature the original songs of native Texan Phil Gammage (lead vocals, guitar, blues harp) as well as a diverse selection of classic blues covers. The music is influenced by old-school Texas and Chicago blues that gets audiences dancing and keeps them drinking. It is not your typical “bar blues band”. The musicians of Adventures in Bluesland have performed with some of the world’s finest artists including David Bowie, Carolina Slim, Amy Winehouse, John Cale, poet John Sinclair, and Tommy Ramone. The band is based in New York and perform at numerous venues throughout the United States.
7. Stephanie Rooker
Date: Thursday, December 11, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: Sacred Arts Research Foundation (107 Green St #G55, Brooklyn, New York 11222)
Ticket: $25
Genre: African-American Spirituals & Gospel Music workshop
There is an inherent power in African-American spirituals and gospel music. The sanctity of this musical lineage transcends its religious context. This workshop traces the power of gospel and the spirituals to their historical, cultural, and elemental sources. Empower your ability to self-soothe, turn inspiration into aspiration, and heal through song.
Stephanie Rooker is a composer, vocalist, cross-cultural music educator, and sound healing facilitator. With a background in Ethnomusicology, Stephanie employs a distinctive grasp of cross-cultural indigenous archetypes, incisive listening, and mindful facilitation to bridge the gap between sacred and secular forms and demonstrate the vast possibilities of broadening cultural awareness and promoting healing through music. She is certified as an Integrative Sound & Music Practitioner by the Sound & Music Institute in New York, an organization which she now assists with program coordination. She has also completed a 200-hour practitioner certification in Yoga of the Voice, as developed by Silvia Nakkach/Vox Mundi School.
Stephanie offers private, passive or participatory sound healing sessions for individuals, couples, and groups. Based on fundamental elements of sound healing, these sessions employ a array of sound modalities –including numerous vocal techniques, tuning forks, shamanic medicine melodies, dronal music, drumming, and more!– to shift & align personal vibrations for optimal physical, emotional, and interpersonal health, healing, and well-being.
8. Golden Drum and Didge Project
Date: Friday, December 12, 2014
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Studio Anya (49 W 24th St 8th Fl, New York, New York 10010)
Ticket: $25
Genre: Shamanic chanting, mantras, overtone singing, Native American songs, indigenous music, didgeridoos…
Dream Seed is a two-hour sound bath hosted by members of Golden Drum and Didge Project. Shamanic chanting, mantras, overtone singing, Native American songs, indigenous music, didgeridoos, crystal singing bowls, bells, gongs, harmoniums, tuning forks and other overtone-emitting instruments are used to create an environment conducive to deep relaxation and inward investigation. Participants are led through guided meditations and sound healing practices designed to harmonize body, mind and spirit.
9. Ben Tyree & BT3
Date: Friday, December 12, 2014
Times: 12:30am
Venue: Blue Note (131 West 3rd St., New York, NY 10012, 212-475-8592)
Tickets: $10
Genre: jazz/jazz rock
A product of the diverse Washington, DC music scene, guitarist Ben Tyree is a performer and composer of virtuosic ability, infectious groove, and eclectic tastes. All of those elements are placed on stunning display on his latest release, Burn It! LIVE, a blistering live set from the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s prestigious BAMcafé Live series. That album follows his gorgeous, classically-influenced acoustic solo album Thoughtform Variations, ample evidence of his diversity and range.
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10. The Meaning of Life
Date: Friday, December 12, 2014
Time: 10pm
Venue: Nola Darling (161 W 22nd St, New York, NY10011)
Tickets: $t.b.a.
Genre: indie rock/dream pop
The NYC-based indie-alternative, dream-pop band The Meaning of Life dropped earlier the new single “I Want To Do With You What Spring Does With The Cherry Trees.” which will be video screened. This Brooklyn-based band formed during the summer of 2011, consisting of Marta DeLeon on bass and vocals and Christian Gallardo on guitars, keys and tambourine.
Listen to and share “I Want To Do With You What Spring Does With The Cherry Trees”
11. Elemental Sounds & Rhythms ™ with Nacho Arimany
Date: Saturday, December 13, 2014
Time: 10am
Venue: Sacred Arts Research Foundation (107 Green St #G55, Brooklyn, New York 11222)
Ticket: $150
Genre: music workshop ( body percussion exercises, vocal exercises, group relaxation and sound work)
For thousand of years indigenous cultures have understood the profound effect that the rhythmic patterns and sounds of nature have on our well-being. This eternal pulse of life is woven throughout nature, from our own DNA to the galaxies, making it the source of deep transformation and healing.
In this 2-day intensive workshop we will explore the rhythmic and elemental patterns of nature and learn to entrain with them using our own movement and sound. Through the use of body percussion exercises, vocal exercises, group relaxation and sound work using clay, wood, metal and water percussive instruments we will explore and experience how the inner and outer rhythms of nature help us integrate balance in our lives.
Come and discover the full musical potential of your body and let unfold your true voice naturally. Get the experience of full synchronicity within your self and with the Universe. More info on this workshop can be found at
http://nachoarimany.com/
Saturday, December 13, 2014 and Sunday, December 14, 2014, 10am-5pm both days.
Cost: Full weekend is $250; Single day is $150.
12. Underground Horns & Brown Rice Family
Date: Saturday, December 13, 2014
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Drom (85 Avenue A, NY, NY 10009, 212- 777-1157)
Ticket: $15
Genre: Afro Funk, Hip Hop, New Orleans, Haitian and Ethio Jazz
In Almost Blue, their highly anticipated third album, Underground Horns are mixing Afro Funk, Hip Hop, New Orleans, Haitian and Ethio Jazz elements into a dance inducing audio gumbo. They are calling their trademark sound” MUSIC FOR THE PEOPLE!”
Brown Rice Family is a multi national band with members hailing from Japan, Jamaica, Haiti, Nigeria, South Africa and USA.This world roots band normally fuses genres but this time around they just simply fell in love with the “Latin Goes Ska “vibe.
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13. Chat Logs, Anwar Sadat, Tropical Trash & Bad Behavior
Date: Saturday, December 13, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: Shea Stadium BK (20 Meadow St., Brooklyn, NY, 11206)
Tickets: $8
Genre: acid/diy/no wave/noise/psychedelic/punk & weed heavy rasta
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14. Lauren Lee “Space Jazz” Trio & Ras Moshe “Music Now” Trio
Date: Saturday, December 13, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: 5c Cafe and Cul (310 E 4th St, New York, New York 10009)
Tickets: $10
Genre: jazz/improv
An evening of meditative, energetic, thoughtful music. Let us all try to find peace, justice, and tranquility in a world that lacks it.
Lauren Lee “Space Jazz” Trio (info above)
Lauren Lee, vocals/piano/composition
Charley Sabatino, bass
Andy O’Neill, drums
Ras Moshe “Music Now” Trio
Ras Moshe, woodwinds
Chris Forbes, piano
TBA
15. FUTURE DRONEnyc
Date: Saturday, December 13, 2014
Time: 11:45pm
Venue: Nublu (62 Ave C, NY)
Ticket: $10
Genre: jazz/improv
Drummer Joe Hertenstein’s FUTURE DRONEnyc with Anthony Coleman keys and Ken Filiano bass and featuring Jack Wright sax
16. Michal Urbaniak
Date: Sunday, December 14, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: Drom (85 Avenue A, NY, NY 10009, 212- 777-1157)
Ticket: $25
Genre: jazz
Michal Urbaniak is one of the biggest jazz stars. Violinist, saxophonist, composer, arranger, developer of young talents. Since 1973 he has been living in New York. He became a world famous jazz star after recording the TUTU album with Miles Davis.
Many times he has received and given many invitations to co-perform with such famous jazz masters like: Quincy Jones, Billy Cobham, Stephane Grappelli, Joe Zawinul, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Kenny Garrett, George Benson , Marcus Miller, Jaco Pastorius, Toots Thielmans, Kenny Kirkland, Larry Coryell, Lennie White, Alphonze Mouzon.
He is a creator, leader, composer and arranger of his own projects: “Jazz Legends”, “Fusion”, “Urbanator”, “UrbSymphony”. Michal Urbaniak has performed several times at Carnegie Hall and at many famous world and NY jazz clubs like Blue Note, Village Vanguard, Sweet Basil. He has received awards, has been a winner of numerous foreign plebiscites and in 1992 his name appeared in first place in the prestigious “Down Beat” jazz magazine in 5 categories among the biggest jazz stars. He has recorded over 60 albums.
The members are:
Michal Urbaniak – Violin
Mike Flythe – Drums
Billy ‘Spaceman’ Patterson – Guitar
Yayoi Ikawa – Keys
Al MacDowell – Bass
