1. Evolving Music
Date: Monday, February 17, 2013
Time: 7:30pm to 11pm
Venue: Clemente Soto Velez Center (107 Suffolk St, New York, NY 10002)
Tickets: $15 per set
Genre: jazz/improv
7:30PM – 8:30PM – A Poetic Piano Slide or TPP
Steve Dalachinsky – words
Connie Crothers – piano
Steve Swell – trombone
8:45PM – 9:45PM – ”RelativE ResonancE”
Kris Davis – piano
Chris Tordini – bass
Devin Gray – drums/composition
10:00PM – 11:00PM – Conly+Jones
Sean Conly
Darius Jones
2. The Red Black and Green Revolutionary Eco-Music Tour!
Date: Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Time: 7pm-9pm
Venue: Baruch Performing Arts Center – Baruch College (Englemen Recital Hall, Level B2), 25th St. (bet. 3rd and Lexington Aves.), NYC
Ticket: general admission $20, students $10 (must have ID, box office only), CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS
Genre: big band jazz/contemporary jazz
Featuring:
Fred Ho (Concept/Composer)
Adam Fischer (Cello)
Ernesto Villalobos (Violin)
Jay Rodriguez (Alto Sax)
Salim Washington (Tenor Sax)
Livio Almeida (Tenor Sax)
Ben Barson (Baritone Sax)
Winston Byrd (Trumpet)
Jon Mark McGowan (Trumpet)
Nabate Isles (Trumpet)
Adam O’Farrill (Trumpet)
Earl McIntyre (Trombone)
Richard Harper (Trombone)
Amanda Ruzza (Bass)
Zack O’Farrill (Drums)
Albert Marques (Piano)
Marie Incontrera (Conductor)
Special Guest Dave Taylor (Bass Trombone) 2.23 only
The Red, Black and Green Revolutionary Eco-Music Tour will perform the music of two legendary and influential big band jazz composers: Cal Massey, a leading 1960s African-American composer whose long-lost magnum opus “The Black Liberation Movement Suite” is one of the 20th century’s great undiscovered long-form works; alongside famed composer, political activist, ecosocialist and “Best baritone saxophonist of all time” (The New Yorker) Fred Ho, who will be showcasing the world premiere of his newest work, “The Revolutionary Gardens of Harlem Suite: A Tribute to Clifford Thornton.”
The tour will collaborate with Vermont’s premier performing Arts institutions, across a diverse spectrum of urban and rural locales, including the University of Vermont’s Lane Series, BARNArts in Barnard, Johnson State College’s Art and Music program, the Goddard College Concert Series, and the Governor’s Institute in Vermont. It is sponsored by the Canaday Foundation and Goddard College.
Alongside the musical performance of these two majestic suites, Clare Dolan, veteran of the Bread and Puppet circus and director of the Museum of Everyday Life, will present a new Cantastoria work on the life and work of Cal Massey, the legacy of the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, and their relevance and resonance in Vermont.
The 16-piece EcoMusic Big Band includes some of the nation’s most acclaimed jazz musicians, including bass trombonist Earl McIntyre (Duke Ellington, Mel Lewis/Thad Jones), trumpeter Winston Byrd (Paquito D’ Rivera, Clark Terry), and Fred Ho’s saxophone protégé Ben Barson (Arturo O’Farrill, Craig Harris). Tenor saxophonist and distinguished jazz scholar Salim Washington (Pharoah Sanders, Randy Weston) will be accompanying the tour as performer and a speaker, having worked with the music of Cal Massey for decades.
The tour will also launch the release of Truth And Dare: A Comic Book Curriculum for the End and the Beginning of the World, a graphic novel written by the environmental and social justice advocacy nonprofit Ecosocialist Horizons, and featuring artwork from the internationally renowned comic collective World War Three Illustrated. Both a comic book and a teaching tool, this affordable comic book for all ages will promote a popular understanding of the ecological and social challenges humanity faces, and the political and economic strategies to find solutions.
3. Sharkmuffin
Date: Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Time: 11pm
Venue: PIANOS (158 Ludlow St., New York, NY 10002
Ticket: $8
Genre: indie rock/garage rock
4. Red Bull Sound Select presents: New York, curated by Giant Step featuring Thundercat , ASTR , and Tondrae Kemp w/ special guests
Date: Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012, ph: 212- 505-3474)
Ticket: $10
Genre: Hip-Hop to Reggae, Rock, Electronic and Soulful
Bassist/songwriter/vocalist Stephen Bruner, aka Thundercat, has music deeply rooted within. Bruner takes his jazz roots and works with a mix of artists that suit his wildly experimental sensibilities – ranging from Flying Lotus, Erykah Badu, and Stanley Clarke, as well as more recent collaborations with Wiz Khalifa and Earl Sweatshirt, to name but a few. After meeting and touring with Flying Lotus, the two artists collaborated on Lotus’ 2010 LP ‘Cosmogramma’ on the track ‘MmmHmm.’ Their kindred sense of musicality led to Thundercat’s 2011 solo debut ‘The Golden Age of Apocalypse,’ co-produced by Flying Lotus, which opened Bruner up to a new stratosphere of songwriting and artistic exploration.
ASTR is a duo that lives, works and writes music in New York City. After meeting three years ago in a Manhattan yoga class, they discovered they shared a musical and artistic sensibility informed by cinema noire, Miami Vice and urban dreamscapes. ASTR was soon born. –
Zoe is a New York native and former major label refuge. After a hiatus from music to explore the world via spirituality she met Adam, a recovering vinyl addict with a penchant for 60′s / 70′s cinema scores, Disco, and the fingers for anything with keys (vintage synths, guitar and bass).
Transplanted from New Orleans into the metropolis of New York, Tondrae Kemp has been growing exponentially since his departure to the big city. Where he was once known as a soul singer, he is now expounding on that notion by adding the potential for any genre to find its way into the music. From Hip-Hop to Reggae, Rock, Electronic and always Soulful, TK could take you anywhere at any moment. Always with a fresh approach and always unhindered. Imagine Zappa influenced by Public Enemy and Stevie Wonder. Something different and sincere. As funny as it is musically fresh. Tondrae would say that he’s “Just channeling whatever comes out. A true expression that I haven’t attempted to gate or limit by description. An honest flow and expression.”
5. WILLIAM HOOKER – LIVE MUSIC/SILENT FILM PROJECT (BODY AND SOUL, MICHEAUX FILM OF 1925)
Date: Thursday, February 20, 2014
Venue: David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center (NY)
Time: 7:30pm
Ticket: free
Genre: jazz
The kinetically charged, free-time percussionist William Hooker leads his ensemble in an original score accompanying a screening of Oscar Micheaux’s controversial 1925 film, Body and Soul. Featuring Paul Robeson in his screen debut, the iconic film addresses issues of race, crime, and sexuality, and will be followed by an audience discussion with Hooker and film enthusiast Chris Sampson.
Working on the periphery of the jazz world since he moved to New York in 1974, William Hooker’s drumming and spoken word poetry have been matched with some of the finest improvising talent across generations and stylistic boundaries.
Featuring: MARK SMITH (b), TAYLOR RYAN (?), DAVE ROSS (g), SKYE STEELE (vio), TOM ZLABINGER, RAS MOSHE (sax), MATT LAVELLE (tr) and WILLIAM HOOKER (dr).
6. AyoINMotion
Date: Monday, January 20, 2014
Time: 9:30pm
Venue: Drom (85 Avenue A, NY, NY 10009, 212- 777-1157)
Ticket: $10
Genre: hip-hop music on a bed rock of jazz/afrobeat/soul infused instrumentals
AYo and The AY0INM0TI0N band play energetic live hip-hop music on a bed rock of jazz/afrobeat/soul infused instrumentals. Drawing from AYo’s powerful lyrics and charismatic stage presence, the band is personified by amazingly talented musicians who believe that showmanship goes hand in hand with musicality. The lyrical content in AYo’s music illustrates his experiences as a child growing up during military tyranny in Nigeria and subsequently moving to the inner city of Flint, Michigan. AY0INM0TI0N is a band to watch, feel and experience. His 5-piece band features a back-up vocalist, bass, guitar, keyboard, drums and an occasional horn section.
7. Sean Noonan Pavees Dance featuring Malcolm Mooney (CAN) & Alex Marcelo
Date: Saturday February 22, 2014
Time: 9:30pm
Venue: ShapeShifter Lab (18 Whitwell Pl, between Carroll St & 1st St, Brooklyn, NY 11215, 646-820-9452)
Ticket: $12
Genre: Afro-Celtic Punk Jazz
Described as a fermentation of Afro-Celtic Punk Jazz, Pavees Dance wanders through an all new array of Sean Noonan compositions brewed in a wide spectrum of poetry by Malcolm Mooney from his earlier years with CAN to the present.
Noonan describes himself as an “Irish griot”, one who collects tales, legends, and life stories over the course of his journeys and transforms them into the raw material, not only from drumming, but in all of his music. Together with Alex Marcelo, his alter ego, they track down Malcolm Mooney, the original Can singer (back to “Monster Movie”). The latter remains famous for having been the shooting-star voice, half Soul, half psychedelic, of one of the more influential experimental Rock band in History. If it wasn’t for a few cameo appearances on stage, Mooney has devoted himself to poetry, sculpture and teaching for forty years. His return is one of many beautiful gifts the “Irish griot” gives us.
Pavees Dance make available to the public a pre-release limited edition CD Picture Book “There’s Always the Night” that feature 6 New Songs and 14 new art works by Mooney in an collectors item lyric CD book. You can pre-order at: http://noonansmusic.com/pavees-dance/
