1. Carte Blanche
Date: Monday, February 24, 2014
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Drom (85 Avenue A, NY, NY 10009, 212- 777-1157)
Ticket: free
Genre: vintage standards white-hot with classic French, Latin and American jazz standards from the 1920s, 30s and 40s.
6-piece jazz ensemble Carte Blanche keeps vintage standards white-hot with classic French, Latin and American jazz standards from the 1920s, 30s and 40s.
Carte Blanche has become a familiar late-night act at New York’s most popular speakeasies and music venues: from Chinatown’s well-hidden Apotheke to the LES staple Rockwood Music Hall, the 6-piece ensemble in white silk and sequins has gathered a following who love them for their look as much as their commitment to preserving the standards of a bygone era. The group frequently charms the discerning show-goers of the popular show “Sleep No More” as the surprise act on the stage of the Manderley Bar- the secret bar at the back of the show.
2. Artists’ Pay for Radio Play – Rally and Concert (sponsored by the Content Creators Coalition)
Date: Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Time: 6pm – 9pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012, ph: 212- 505-3474)
Ticket: free
Genre: rally and music
The United States is the only democratic country in the world where artists don’t get paid for radio airplay. Currently, the short list of countries that share the United States’ position on this issue includes: Iran, North Korea, China, Vietnam, and Rwanda. On February 25th join music makers and music lovers alike in urging Congress to support artists’ pay for radio play.
For more information and to sign the petition for Artists’ Pay For Radio Play visit CCC-NYC.ORG
Artists and activists to perform and/or speak include:
David Byrne (Talking Heads)
Marilyn Carino (Mudville) & Mike Mills (REM)
John McCrea (CAKE)
Tift Merritt
Jennifer Charles (Elysian Fields)
Marc Ribot (Tom Waits, Allen Toussaint, John Zorn, Elvis Costello, Diana Krall)
Wendy Oxenhorn (Executive Director, Jazz Foundation of America)
Chris Ruen (author of “Freeloading: How Our Insatiable Hunger for Free Content Starve Creativity”)
Jason Moran (by video)….Many many more…
FREE w/ RSVP: rsvp@lprnyc.com
This is a general admission, standing event. Happy hour from 6-7pm including $3 beer and $5 well drinks.
3. Roy Campbell Day Memorial
Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: The Roulette (509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217)
Ticket: $15 suggested donation. Profits to go to the Roy Campbell Fund. Make reservations in advance : http://
Genre: jazz/improv
6:45 Slide Show
Roy Campbell’s music
7:10 Intro Speak
Valerie Morris (Roy Campbell’s sister)
7:20 Opening Song – Prayer
(composed by William Parker on the death of R.Campbell’s father)
Fay Victor – voice
Charles Downs – drums
Andy Bemkey – piano
William Parker – bass, composition
7:30 Ahkenaten Ensemble
Brian Carrott – vibes
Hill Greene – bass
Jason Kao Hwang – violin
Warren Smith – drums
7:45 Speaker – Bob Craddock
7:50 Hempstead Music School
Donald Hanson – saxophone
Bruce Edwards – guitar
Hill Greene – bass
Chris Sullivan – bass
Bevin Turnbull – piano
Christine Bard – drums
8:05 Speaker
Matt Lavelle reading Roy Campbell’s poem
8:10 Piano
Stephanie Stone
8:15 Nemesis
Matt Lavelle – trumpet
Flip Barnes – trumpet
Asim Barnes – guitar
Warren Smith – drums
8:40 Speaker – William Parker
08:45 Charles Gayle Solo
8:50 Tazz Quartet
Joe McPhee – trumpet and sax
Andy Bemkey – piano
Chris Sullivan – bass
Michael T.A. Thompson – drums
9:00 Poetry – Steve Dalachinsky
9:05 NU Band
Mark Witecage – alto clarinet
Joe Fonda – bass
Lou Grassi – drums
9:20 Speak
9:25 4 for Roy
William Hooker- drums
Connie Crothers – piano
Daniel Carter – sax, trumpet
Ras Moshe – sax
9:40 Speak
9:45 Roy Campbell Film by O’Haire and Sternbach
Short documentary
10:00 Roy Campbell’s “Thanks to the Creator”
arranged & conducted by William Parker
Dave Douglas – trumpet
Lewis Barnes – trumpet
Matt Lavelle – trumpet
Taylor Ho Bynum – cornet
Ted Daniel – cornet
Graham Haynes – cornet
Joe Daley – tuba
Dave Hofstra – tuba
Steve Swell – trombone
Andrew Lamb – sax
Charles Gayle – sax
Mark Whitecage – sax
Avram Fefer – sax
Dave Sewelson – sax
Kali Fasteau – sax
Andrew Bemkey – piano
Jason Kao Hwang – violin
Hill Greene – bass
Chris Sullivan – bass
Henry Grimes – bass
Fay Victor – voice
Lisa Sokolov – voice
4. TOM RAINEY & INGRID LAUBROCK
Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: Barbes (376 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY)
Ticket: $10
Genre: jazz/improv
TOM RAINEY & INGRID LAUBROCK. Celebrate the release of their first duo recording “And Other Desert Towns”
Ingrid Laubrock – saxophone; Tom Rainey – drums.
5. Nashaz
Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Time: 8:30pm-10:30pm
Venue: Jebon Sushi NYC (15 St. Marks Place, New York, New York 10003)
Ticket: $10
Genre: Arabic music/jazz
About the Arabic Jazz band, Nashaz http://
Transplanted to Brooklyn from New Orleans, Brian Prunka brings together jazz adventurousness, New Orleans rhythm, and years of experience with Arabic music as an essential voice in the band. Aside from leading Nashaz, he has performed internationally with Simon Shaheen, Michael Bates, Ravish Momin, the New York Arabic Orchestra, The Vancouver International Orchestra, Zikrayat, The Near East River Ensemble, and others. Joined by a coterie of top-notch NY jazz and world musicians like Kenny Warren on trumpet (Slavic Soul Party), and Vin Scialla (Snehasish Mozumder), expect an evening of seductively fascinating music.
6. WEIRD WEDNESDAYS (on Thursdays) By Terry Dame
Date: Thursday, February 27, 2014
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Barbes (376 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY)
Ticket: $10
Genre: unconventional music?
WEIRD WEDNESDAYS (on Thursdays). Terry Dame presents an ongoing monthly music series dedicated to instrument inventors and players of found objects and other musical oddities. Dame is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and instrument builder and leader of the invented instrument ensemble Electric Junkyard Gamelan. Terry Dame’s Weird Wednesdays did start on a Wednesday, but to make it weirder, it will be now happen every last Thursday of the month…because Thursday is the weirdest Wednesday of all.
7. Truculently Audacious
Date: Thursday, February 27, 2014
Time: 9:30pm
Venue: ShapeShifter Lab (18 Whitwell Pl, between Carroll St & 1st St, Brooklyn, NY 11215, 646-820-9452)
Ticket: $10
Genre: Classical/Jazz/Pop
Truculently Audacious will be playing songs from their new album “Numbers.” The members are: Holly Cordero – bass, Drew Williams – sax, bass clarinet, Renato Diz – piano, and Steve Picataggio – drums)
8. Kavita Shah & Lionel Loueke
Date: Friday, February 28, 2014
Time: 7pm – 8:15pm
Venue: Rubin Museum of Art (150 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011, 212-620-5000)
Ticket: $20
Genre: singer-song writer/brazil/jazz
Kavita Shah Music – Vocal
Lionel Loueke – Guitar/Vocal
9. Nasheet Waits’ Equality
Date: Friday, February 28, 2014
Time: 9pm & 10:30pm
Venue: The Cornelia Street Cafe (29 Cornelia St., NY, NY 10014)
Ticket: $10
Genre: jazz
The members are: Darious Jones, alto sax; David Virelles, piano; Mark Helias, bass; Nasheet Waits, drums
Nasheet Waits’ Equality is a band whose position and philosophy are revealed in the name. All members contribute material and have an equal responsibility for the execution of its content. The group’s first eponymous recording Equality was released in 2009 on the Fresh Sound label. The group included Jason Moran, Logan Richardson and Tarus Mateen. Equality has also been graced with the presence of Stanley Cowell, piano and John Hebert, bass. Whatever the personnel, a seamless nature exists. The goal simply is to offer creative music with energy and integrity.
10. Simon Shaheen
Date: Saturday, March 1, 2014
Time: 7pm talk on Arab Music by Simon Shaheen and 8pm (show)
Venue: The Roulette (509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217)
Ticket: $30
Genre: talk and Arabic music
Simon Shaheen performs works from the classical Arab repertoire – traditional and contemporary pieces from the Levant and Egypt. The music is composed in the traditional maqam, a modal form that utilizes microtonal intervals and requires considerable improvisational skill. It is melismatic, often deeply meditational and virtuosic. He is joined by the exquisite Lebanese vocalist Rima Khcheich in a program encompassing music from the ancient courts of Al-Andalus to songs from the 1940s and ‘50s Egypt and Lebanon by such composers as Mohamed Abdel Wahab, the Rahbani Brothers, and Zakariyya Ahmad.
11. Cheryl Pyle Trio
Date: Sunday, March 2, 2014
Time: 7pm
Venue: Parkside Lounge (317 East Houston, New York, New York 10002, 212-673-6270)
Ticket: t.b.a.
Genre: jazz/improv
Cheryl Pyle -flute /Johnny Engle-guitar-keys/Gary Poulson – drums + Anthony Cerretani – live painting…
The versatile flutist Cheryl Pyle received her BA in music from the University of California at Berkeley having received her Associates Degree from Mesa College . Her teachers included Merrill Jordan, Janet Maestre, Francis Watson, and Jayn Rosenfeld. She took Master Classes with Jean-Pierre Rampal, Julius Baker, James Newton. Since moving to New York in the fall of 1980, Ms. Pyle has been heard in a variety of settings. She has appeared at such jazz clubs as the Blue Note, Jazz Forum, Seventh Avenue South, Angry Squire, Kave Haz, the Garage, Cornelia Street Café, CBGB’s Art Gallery, St. Peter’s Church, Amazonas, Fat Baby’s, Bar on A, Abc no Rio ,Brecht Forum, Sycamore, Zirzamin, Frost Gallery and Birdland. She was also heard at the Annual Women’s Jazz Festival as well as the Mount Vernon Jazz Festival in New York. For more details and music information go to http://www.cherylpyle.blogspot.com.
