1. 2014 Composers Now Festival – February 1-28
The Composers Now Festival celebrates living composers, the diversity of their voices, and the significance of their musical contributions to our society. During the month of February, the fifth annual festival brings together nearly 100 performances and innovative multi-media events presented by venues, ensembles, composers, orchestras, opera companies, dance companies, and others, throughout New York City. Experience the sounds and get to know the creators behind the music. From jazz to indie-rock, from classical to electronic and beyond, join us on a broad-stroke sonic journey through NYC’s new music landscape. Composers will be in attendance at all events and will be interacting with audiences. Composers Now is a project partner of The Fund for the City of New York. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the ASCAP Foundation, the Cheswatyr Foundation and the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation.
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2. Kavita Shah
Date: Monday, February 3, 2014
Time: 8:30 & 10:30pm
Venue: Bar Next Door (129 MacDougal St., New York, NY 10012, Tel: (212) 529-5945)
Ticket: $12
Genre: Brazilian jazzy music
Kavitah Shah will serenade you with modern takes on her favorite Brazilian standards (and not so standards).
Members: Kavita Shah – Voice, Yotam Silberstein – Guitar and Rogerio Boccato – Percussion + Special Guests
3. Evolving Music Series
Date: Monday, February 3, 2014
Time: 7:30pm to 11pm
Venue: Clemente Soto Velez Center (107 Suffolk St, New York, NY 10002)
Tickets: $15 per set – $20 for 2 / $5 for Jam // students & seniors: $8 / $15 for 2 / $5 JamSession
Genre: jazz/improv
Featuring bassist Shayna Dulberger Residency in February
7:30 – Lester St. Louis ”In iij Noct” Ensemble
Todd Neufeld – guitar
Daniel Weiss – guitar
Lester St. Louis – cello, electronics
Pascal Niggenkemper – bass
8:45 – Shayna Dulberger Quartet Music
Yoni Kretzmer – sax
Chris Welcome – guitar
Mike Pride – drums
10:00 Stillness Like Water Falling
Yuko Otomo – words
Patricia Nicholson – words, movement
Shayna Dulberger – bass
4. N / A, The Real Loveless, CMK & Haussmann
Date: Monday, February 3, 2014
Time: 9pm
Venue: PIANOS (158 Ludlow St., New York, NY 10002
Ticket: $8
Genre: indie rock/alternative
7:30 :: Christina Marie Karr
8:30 :: Haussmann
9:30 :: The Real Loveless
10:30 :: N / A
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5. Ricardo Ribeiro
Date: Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Time: 7pm
Venue: The Graduate Center The Graduate Center Elebash Hall (365 Fifth Ave., NY, NY 10016, Ph: 212.817.8215)
Ticket: $25
Genre: Fado
The resonant voice of the extraordinary 28-year-old fado singer Ricardo Ribeiro is as traditional as it comes: no pop sweetening, exotic embellishments or rock and roll influences. Fado is one of the world’s oldest styles of urban song, born on the streets and alleys of typical old Lisbon neighborhoods, and bears the influence of former Portuguese colonies, including several African countries and Brazil. Pedro Joia, the superb Portuguese guitarist who accompanies many of the biggest fado stars, will join Ribeiro.
…absolutely extraordinary… – Songlines, UK
6. Jack Walrath & Masters of Suspense
Time: 7:30pm & 9:30pm
Venue: Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola (33 W. 60th St., New York, N.Y., 212-258-9595)
Ticket: $30-$45
Genre: Contemporary Jazz
Perhaps best-known for performing and writing with legends like Ray Charles, Gary Peacock, and as one of Charles Mingus’ longest-tenured sidemen, trumpeter Jack Walrath is also a spirited bandleader and composer in his own right. Long-recognized as a virtuosic trumpeter, Walrath has distinguished himself in numerous aspects of his career, which now includes a GRAMMY® Award nomination for the Jack Walrath Quintet; commissions from a truly staggering variety of ensembles; and multiple composition and performance grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Aaron Copland Composition Grant, and more. Though his music is fresh and original, Walrath’s natural fit with Mingus is evident, and those who would enjoy the rhythmic intensity, regular mood shifts, and simultaneously challenging and supportive rhythm section associated with Mingus–albeit in a more straight-ahead context–will find a lot to enjoy in these sets.
7. Timo Vollbrecht Group
Time: 8pm & 10pm
Venue: Kitano (66 Park Avenue/East 38th Street, New York)
Genre: Contemporary Jazz
Line-up: Timo Vollbrecht – sax | Kenny Werner – piano | Sam Anning – bass | Jason Burger – drums
8. Sweet Banditry/Pulverize the Sound/Ava Mendoza / Ron Anderson Duo
Date: Friday, February 7, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: JACK ( 505 ½ Waverly Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11238 Between Fulton – Atlantic in Clinton Hill, C or G train to Clinton-Washington)
Ticket: $10
Genre: jazz/improv/electronics/noise
Sweet Banditry celebrates the release of their debut release, Farvefisen blomstrer, on Marsken Records!
Sweet Banditry is:
Louise D.E. Jensen – vocals, saxophone
Brandon Seabrook – guitars
Tom Blancarte – bass
Kevin Shea – drums
“Squalling feedback and a fracas of inhuman screams conspire to create a racket that I can only describe as utterly fucking deranged”
– Whisperin and Hollerin
Pulverize the Sound is:
Peter Evans – trumpet
Tim Dahl – bass
Mike Pride – drums
Ava Mendoza / Ron Anderson Duo
Ava Mendoza – guitar
Ron Anderson – guitar
9. Alessandra Belloni
Date: Friday, February 7, 2014
Time: 8pm – 10pm
Venue: Golden Drum (97 Green St Apt G24,Brooklyn, New York 11222)
Ticket: $10
Genre: tambourine-mediterranean music
Golden Drum is proud to present a concert and workshop with renowned tambourine virtuoso/singer/dancer/
10. DecaDence (Dahlia F. Dumont)
Date: Saturday, February 8, 2014
Time: 10pm to midnight
Venue: Silvana (300 West 116th St (between Manhattan & 8th Ave) New York, New York 10026)
Ticket: donation
Genre: reggae-French accordion, tango and samba
Brooklyn girl Dahlia F. Dumont (and registered nurse) with a different kind of reggae, mixing it with French style and Tex-Mex accordion, some tango, ska and samba. Her years in Senegal and France sparked her love for world fusion music.
11. 75 Dollar Bill w. special guests
Date: Saturday, February 8, 2014
Time: 8:30pm
Venue: Troost (1011 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11222)
Ticket: t.b.a.
Genre: Wood / Metal / Plastic. Pattern / Rhythm / Rock
Rick Brown was born in San Francisco, CA and is a clerical worker at a law school in NYC. And Che Chen was born in New Haven, CT and works for a cancer diagnostics company in Stonybrook, NY. They met via myspace and started playing together as 75 Dollar Bill approximately eight years later. Brown plays percussion and homemade horns and Chen plays electric guitar.
75 Dollar Bill have been playing on the 2nd Saturday of each month for a while. [11/9, 12/14, 1/11 so far]. They’ve been having a great time doing these regular gigs with different arrangements, different people and different sets of music. Two sets each night, with strings (Karen Waltuch viola, Andrew Lafkas double bass) for next one.
12. Drunken Foreigner Band +Platinum Vision+Evil Sleeve
Date: Saturday, February 8, 2014
Time: 9pm
Venue: COCO 66 (66 Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY)
Ticket: $10
Genre: Minimalist Funk. Repetition experiments. Improvisation exercises.
When these three CSC Funk Band bandmates’ bands get together, expect an epic night of jams…
9pm->Drunken Foreigner Band (featuring David Kadden of Invisible Circle)
10pm->Evil Sleeve (featuring Jesse Lent of The Monte Vista)
11pm->Platinum Vision (featuring Matt Mottel of Talibam!)
13. The Mast & Archie Pelago
Date: Saturday, February 8, 2014
Time: 10:30pm
Venue: Mercury Lounge (217 East Houston St., New York, NY 10002)
Price: $10
Genre: psychedelic/ambient/electronics
The Mast is vocalist and instrumentalist Haleh Gafori and percussionist and beat maker Matt Kilmer. Incorporating live vocals, electronics, and percussion in their shows, The Mast creates a full-spectrum sonic experience that features “Haleh’s phenomenally powerful, nuanced, and hypnotic voice and Matt’s gorgeous deft beats (both sequenced and live)” (Wompblog). Influenced by early IDM, post dubstep, and experimental beat music as well as acts like Mount Kimbie, Massive Attack, and Bonobo, The Mast creates a warm and inviting sound that booms through the subwoofers, propels the body to dance, and soaks the mind in a bath of endorphins.
Archie Pelago is a production and live performance trio based in Brooklyn, NY. Formed in late 2010, the trio of Hirshi (trumpet/DJ), Cosmo D (cello/Ableton) and Kroba (sax/Ableton) combine their varied backgrounds in jazz and classical music with a common love for rhythm and the wide-open possibilities of electronic music. In the studio, the three produce collectively and prominently feature their instruments, lending deeply emotive patterns and textures to their tracks. On the stage, the group innovatively combines DJ-style performance with live playing and processing of their instruments, conjuring singular renditions of their original works as well as music that inspires them.
14. HAZMAT MODINE
Date: Saturday, February 8, 2014
Time: 7pm
Venue: TERRA BLUES (149 Bleecker Street, NYC 212.777.7776)
Ticket: t.b.a.
Genre: nu blues/ New Orleans brass
One of New York’s most original bands, HAZMAT MODINE delivers a rustic, deliriously Dionysian blend of whorehouse Blues, Reggae, Klezmer, Country and Gypsy-tinged music.
