1. Evolving Music (Ingrid Laubrock residency)
Date: Monday, March 10, 2014
Time: 7:30pm to 11pm
Venue: Clemente Soto Velez Center (107 Suffolk St, New York, NY 10002)
Tickets: $11 per set
Genre: jazz/improv
7.30 pm Ingrid Laubrock (ts) + Mary Halvorson (g)
8.45 pm Isabelle Duthoit (cl,voc) + Franz Hautzinger (tpt)
10pm, XXL with Ingrid Laubrock, Tom Rainey, Daniel Carter, Josh Sinton, Sara Schoenbeck, Kirk Knuffke, James Brandon Lewis, Patrick J Breiner, Steven Leffue, Ras Moshe, Michel Gentile, Catherine Sikora, Ben Syversen, Mike McGinnis, Jen Baker, Brian Drye, Michaël Attias, Briggan Krauss, Travis Laplante, Isabelle Duthoit, Franz Hautzinger, Ben Gerstein, Yoni Kretzmer, Dan Peck, Jon Irabagon, Ben Holmes, Stephanie Richards + others
2. Women’s Jazz Festival: The Blues Project
Date: Monday, March 10, 2014
Time: 7pm to 8:30pm
Venue: Schomburg Center (515 Malcolm X Blvd, Harlem, NY 10037)
Tickets: $25
Genre: tap dance and music
Michelle Dorrance‘s company, Dorrance Dance features some of today’s best tap artists including co-choreographers of The Blues Project Derick K. Grant and Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards. Award-winning musician, composer, and founder of the band BIGLovely Toshi Reagon created the music for The Blues Project, which will be performed live by Reagon and four other musicians on acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, drums and percussion, and violin.
3. True Groove All-Stars
Date: Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: Cutting Room (44 E 32nd St, New York, New York 10016)
Tickets: $20
Genre: funk/Afro Beat/blues
The True Groove All-Stars Presents An Evening of Global Soul………… Music ranging from afro-beat to blues to soul to pop to post-modern, experimental, rock-n-roll and funk – backed by one of the baadest bands in the land.
Featuring Tomás Doncker, Marla Mase, Kevin Jenkins, Lael Summer, Samuel Claiborne, Heather Powell, Charlie Funk, Lola Danza, Mamadou Diaite, Natalie Smith and special guest the legendary NO WAVE PUNK FUNK ICON JAMES CHANCE!
True Groove All-Stars Band is:
Tomás Doncker: guitars, vocals
James Dellatacoma: guitars/sound effects
Josh David: bass/vocals
Manu Koch: keyboards
Nick Rolfe: keyboards/vocals
Michael Faulkner: drums/vocals
Daniel Sadownick: percussion
David Barnes: harmonica
Steve Bernstein: trumpet
Mark Henry: saxophones
Artur U: guitars
THIS EVENT WILL BE STREAMED LIVE VIA GANDER TV:
https://www.gander.tv/
4. Charles Gayle Trio & Bern Nix Quartet
Date: Tuesday, March 11, 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
First Show of a New Series Sponsored by The Jazz-Foundation America
Charles Gayle Trio
|Charles Gayle – tenor saxophone/piano|
|Francois Grillot – bass|
|Reggie Sylvester|
Deeply committed to free improvisation and the jazz tradition in all its manifestations, Charles Gayle is a blazing saxophonist, a fluent pianist and, has more recently been playing the double bass. Here he is heard at his best, in classic form on the tenor horn with an exhilarating trio.
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Bern Nix Quartet
|Bern Nix – guitar/compositions|
|Matt Lavelle – trumpet/alto clarinet|
|François Grillot – bass|
|Reggie Sylvester – drums|
The Bern Nix Quartet is everywhere and exactly-where and the overall effect is dizzying in the best possible way. This is the next obvious step in the harmolodic world. To the uninitiated, this visionary music can be somewhat confounding. To those who know better, this stuff is pure sustenance.
-John Pietaro “The Cultural Worker”
5. Adventures in Bluesland
Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Time: 9pm
Venue: The No Malice Palace (197 E 3rd Street between Ave A & B, 212-254-9184)
Tickets: $10
Genre: blues
Adventures in Bluesland is a blues oriented band, featuring the original songs of native Texan Phil Gammage as well as a diverse selection of blues covers. It is not your typical “bar blues band”. Musicians include Gammage (lead vocals, guitar, blues harp), Don Fiorino (lap steel guitar), Kevin Tooley (drums, vocals), Johnny Cement (bass), and very often special guest performers. They are New York-based and play at numerous venues throughout the northeast United States.
6. Falu
Date: Thursday, March 13, 2014
Time: 8:30pm
Venue: Greenwich House Music School (46 Barrow Street, New York, New York 10014, 212-242-4770)
Ticket: $15
Genre: nu Indian music
Best known for her fusion experiments with rock, jazz, funk and traditional Indian music, Falu (aka Falguni Shah) explores the quieter, classical side of her musical heritage. She is internationally recognized vocalist from Mumbai, Indian, known for her rare ability to seamlessly blend a modern, inventive style with more classical Indian styles.
7. LA CURVA by ISRAEL GALVAN
Date: Thursday, March 13, 2014 and Friday, March 14, 2013
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Pace University’s Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts (3 Spruce Street New York, NY 10038, 212-346-1715)
Tickets: $55, $40 and $35
Genre: Flamenco dance
Curated by Livesounds.org
The exquisitely innovative Flamenco dancer Israel Galván was recently called a “genius” in The Guardian’s review of La Curva, an exploration of the vibrations created in an empty space. Well known in dance circles for his intricate and intriguing contemporary works that are deeply rooted in traditional Flamenco tradition, Galván uses every surface of the stage and his own body as an auditory accessory alongside an ensemble of vocals, piano, and the rhythmic beats of Palmas.
“…La Curva… is a joyous, witty collision of sound and image, made riveting by Galván himself. With his long legs and fiercely carved profile he’s a master of traditional flamenco; but his mercurial body also flickers through skidding cartoon comedy, ballerina delicacy and exotic stillness. He possesses an almost preternatural poise, yet some of his movements are so fast you can hear the whiplash displacement of air.“ – The Guardian
This event is part of the NY Flamenco Festival.
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8. FURNISHED SOUND: An exhibit and performance by Ken Butler and Ed Potokar
Date: Friday, March 14, 2013
Time: 7pm
Venue: The Firehouse Space (246 Frost St., East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211)
Ticket: $10
Genre: music and exhibition
FURNISHED SOUND: An exhibit and performance by Ken Butler and Ed Potokar… with special guests Terry Dame and Chris Butler.
Artist-musicians Butler and Potokar combine their unique sensibilities as instrument designers and performers to explore the merger of form and function. In the process, they re-think the possibilities inherent to domestic objects in the context of a collective living space. One of the collaborations features Butler’s “Urban Grand Piano” and Potokar’s “Two String Bass Dining Chair” and “Drum Table” creating a tantalizing piano trio designed to deliver an unusual and transformative musical journey. Expect odd juxtapositions and angular audio projections that cross the boundaries of art and design.
9. DJ Logic/Joey DeFrancesco All-Star Band & Brian Landrus Kaleidoscope
Date: Friday, March 14, 2013
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: 92Y Concerts (1395 Lexington Avenue,New York, NY 10128, 212-415-5500)
Tickets: $20
Genre: nu soul & jazz/club
Combining the sounds of soul jazz and nu-jazz, DJ Logic comes to 92Y with his closest friends to present an evening of unexpected, evocative songs.
DJ Logic & Friends
DJ Logic, turntables
Lamont McCain, bass
James Hurt, keys
Justin Tyson, drums
Igmar Thomas, trumpet
Joey DeFrancesco brings a modern funky energetic approach to the Hammond B3 organ. His All-Star band performs with the funk, pulse and sweeping melodies from Jimmy Smith and others.
Joey DeFrancesco All-Star Band
Joey DeFrancesco, organ
Brian Lynch, trumpet
George Garzone, tenor sax
Nir Felder, guitar
Billy Hart, drums
“Landrus is a once-in-a-generation musician.” —News-Press
Fresh from their latest album Mirage, Brian Landrus Kaleidoscope brings a shimmering, tender opening set of beautiful and fresh music, including “A New Day” and “Arrival” with electric quartet and string quartet.
Brian Landrus Kaleidoscope
Brian Landrus, baritone and bass saxophones, bass clarinet, bass flute
Billy Hart, drums
Nir Felder, guitar
Leo Genovese, piano, Rhodes
Lonnie Plaxico, electric and acoustic bass
Sara Caswell, violin
Joyce Hammann, violin
Judith Insell, viola
Jody Redhage, cello
Ryan Truesdell, conductor
10. ALESSANDRA BELLONI (Workshop)
Date: Saturday, March 15, 2014
Time: 2pm – 5pm
Venue: Golden Drum (97 Green St Apt G24,Brooklyn, New York 11222)
Ticket: $75
Genre: frame drumming workshop
Rhythm is the Cure with Alessandra Belloni – Workshop. Golden Drum is proud to present a workshop with renowned tambourine virtuoso/singer/dancer/actress Alessandra Belloni.
The workshop shall give people the means to fortify themselves against daily stresses. Students shall become empowered through discovery of the ancient art of frame drumming and a technique of music and dance therapy that shall enable them to discover the means to achieve homeostatic balance and inner relief of stress, while restoring spiritual and physical energy.
The class is designed to follow the method described in Ms. Belloni’s book/dvd Rhythm is the Cure. This enables students to continue their studies independently after the course is complete.
11. The Sway Machinery with Mitra Sumara & DJ Joro Boro
Date: Saturday, March 15, 2014
Time: 9pm
Venue: Littlefield (622 Degraw St, Brooklyn, New York 11217)
Tickets: $15
Genre: latin jazz/afro beat/Iranian pop of the 60’s
The horn-driven quintet Sway Machinery draws on a mélange of influences—from Latin jazz to Ashkenazi cantorial tropes—to forge a dance-friendly, at times ecstatic sound. The group, founded by the guitarist and singer Jeremiah Lockwood, the grandson of the esteemed cantor Jacob Konigsberg, sought to meld Lockwood’s Jewish musical roots with a wide-ranging interest in world music. –THE NEW YORKER, February 2013
In keeping with the flow of energies between Persians and Jews documented in the Scroll of Esther…The Sway Machinery will be joined by Mitra Sumara, a band that plays pre-Revolutionary Iranian pop music, leaning heavily towards the funkiness that was the zeit-geist of serious music heads in the ’70s. You will surely enjoy what they bring.
Also in attendance will be local favorite and Mehanata regular, DJ Joro Boro, keeping things warm before, after and between sets.
buy tickets here:
http://www.ticketfly.com/
12. Googoosh (Iran)
Date: Saturday, March 15, 2014
Time: 9pm
Venue: Colden Auditorium Queens College (65-30 Kissena Boulevard Flushing, NY 11367-15)
Tickets: $65 – $300
Genre: Iranian pop
Faegheh Atashin, also known by her stage name Googoosh, is an Iranian singer and actress. She is known for her contributions to Iranian pop music, but also starred in a variety of movies from the 1950s to the 1970s.
13. a new black arts movement presents revolutionary matriarchy
Date: Sunday, March 16, 2014
Time: 4pm
Venue: Bed Stuy Super Club (613 Jefferson Avenue)
Tickets: $10
Genre: music & talk
Join this month as we celebrate revolutionary matriarchy
we are building towards a revolutionary matriarchal future, which will be the opposite of patriarchy, not its mirror image. matriarchy will be a revolutionary future, in which social construct of gender is eliminated and humanity is re-socialized, in which values of caring, nurturance, creativity, compassion and collectivity prevail. we denounce gynocide: the ways that capitalism and white supremacy have attempted to break the spirit of struggle by inflicting violence upon and de-valuing womyn and all we represent.
featuring performances and talks by
Kai Diata
Nzinga
Audry Funk
Kanya D’Almeida
Ayanna R’auf
Queen Pepsi of Universal Zulu Nation
Harrabic Tubman of Existence is Resistance
Temper-Mental MissElayneous
Marine Futin
Cherub Chopp Stewart
Urban Art Beat youth and mentors (Jessie Davis, Kelly Jones, Danielle Bero, Fatimah Sillah and more!)
hosts Augustina Warton & Namibia of Art is Love & Action
dj sss (spiritchild)
more TBA like live puppets, participatory art, live visual arts etc
www.movementinmotion.com
www.scientificsoulsessions
www.xspiritmental.com
14. The 2014 New Music Bake Sale
Date: Sunday, March 16, 2014
Time: 4pm
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: live performances, bountiful beverages, merchandise
Brought to you by Newspeak and Exapno, The New Music Bake Sale is delicious event featuring live performances, bountiful beverages, merchandise, revelry, buffoonery, tomfoolery, and of course… plenty of baked goods. All your favorite up-and-coming New York New Music Ensembles come together under one roof. Live performances delight us all day while we snack and smile. Local musicians and organizations each have tables to sell their wares – from CDs to cupcakes. It’s a chance for each group to raise both funds and awareness in the community.
Tickets: $10
More information here
With performances by:
4PM: Exapno members Amirtha Kidambi and Matthew Gantt
5PM: Newspeak
6PM: Rhymes With Opera
7PM: ensemble, et al.
8PM: Hotel Elefant
9PM: Talea Ensemble
10PM: Contemporaneous
15. Lo’ Jo
Date: Sunday, March 16, 2014
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Joe’s Pub (425 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10003, 212-967-7555)
Tickets: $20
Genre: West African/ambient/folk music/cabaret music
Lo’Jo has developed its unique world music profile ever since singer and keyboardist Denis Péan and violinist and kora-player Richard Bourreau first got together 30 years ago in their hometown of Angers, western France. The six-piece band’s stated obsession has remained the same – to make music unlike any already in existence. Lo’ Jo freely crosses stylistic boundaries, its kaleidoscopic sound bringing together French chanson, elements of jazz and sophisticated pop, reggae and dub, circus and cabaret music, as well as a spectrum of inspirations from klezmer and East European Roma tunes to West African and Maghrebian traditions – not forgetting maloya from the Indian Ocean island of Réunion. And Péan’s rough-edged Tom Waits-like voice contrasts beautifully with those of sisters Yamina and Nadia el Mourid, Lo’Jo’s compelling fusion of poetic words and imaginative music celebrates a sense of multicultural community beyond and before globalization.
