1. Nomoto, Bassoon, Platinum Vision, Brandon Seabrook / Jim Sykes Duo
Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Time: 8pm
Venue: Coco SixtySix (66 Greenpoint Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11222)
Tickets: $8
Genre: free style rock/improv/alternative country/blues-jazz
NOMOTO ( free style rock/improv)
Bassoon (alternative country)
Platinum Vision (PLATINUM VISION is Matt Mottel’s band of dreams turned into actuality;
the classic archetypal NYC sonic architecture: blues jazz orgy psychadelic rock New York)
Brandon Seabrook / Jim Sykes Duo (free jazz?)
2. The 13TH LADY GOT CHOPS Women’s History Month Music & Arts Festival
Date: March 3 through March 31, 2015
Time: see below
Venues: see below
Ticket: $see below
Genre: jazz
The 13TH LADY GOT CHOPS Women’s History Month Music & Arts Festival
Mar 3
Jazz vocalist Noël Simoné Wippler and her Band of Friends
Harlem On 5th Restaurant
2150 5th Ave NYC (@ 132nd St) 10037 9pm $10
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Mar 6
Jessica Valiente and Anaisa @
Bean Runner Cafe
201 S Division St. Peekskill NY 10566 8pm $15
Mar 8
ANNETTE A.AGUILAR &
Latin Brazilian Jazz Quartet.
BROWNSTONE JAZZ
107 Macon St Brooklyn 11216 4pm-7 $20
Mar 10
BERTHA HOPE TRIO
Harlem On 5th Restaurant
2150 5th Ave NYC (@ 132nd St) 10037 8pm $20 /$10seniors
Mar 13
Teri Roiger Trio
Bean Runner Cafe
201 S Division St. Peekskill NY 10566 8pm $10
Mar 14
Brooklyn’s Own Songbird Extraordinaire
Tulivu Donna Cumberbatch &
Philadelphia’s Finest Jazz Guitar
Mistress Monnette Sudler
Sista’s Place
456 Nostrand Ave Brooklyn 11216
FOR RESERVATIONS CALL!(718) 398-1766
Mar 15
Kim Kalesti’s Kimsitry & the Living Museum @
St Marks In The Bowery
131 East 10th St NY 10003
3:30pm suggested donation
Mar 15
BROWNSTONE JAZZ
107 Macon St, Brooklyn 11216 4pm-7 $40
TINA FABRIQUE and Friends featuring Sheryl Bailey -guitar,
Lucianna Padmore-drums
Mar 17
Harlem On 5th Restaurant
2150 5th Ave NYC (@ 132nd St) 10037 9pm $10
Nora McCarthy Qu’ART’et
Nora McCarthy – Voice
Sarah Slonim – piano
Jennifer Vincent – bass
Sylvia Cuenca – drums
Mar 20
Kim Clarke& MAGNETS!
EAST ELMHURST PUBLIC LIBRARY 7PM free concert
95-06 ASTORIA BLVD
EAST ELMHURST NY 11369
Mar 21
Miki Hayama Trio 8pm $15
@ The BeanRunner Cafe
Peekskill NY 10566 8-11p
Mar 22
BROWNSTONE JAZZ 4-7p $20
107 Macon St Brooklyn 11216
proudly presents Marylyn Myrthil and Friends
Brooklyn’s Up and Coming Artist of 2015
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Mar 24
Harlem On 5th Restaurant 9pm $10
2150 5th Ave NYC (@ 132nd St) 10037
JULIE BLUESTONE QUARTET
Mar 28
First Reformed Church of Jamaica
159-29 90th Ave Jamaica, NY 11432 1pm-4 $20
AQUA NINJAZ Dynamic Musique in Tribute of:
George Duke, Jef Lee Johnson and Donald Blackman
featuring special guest artist Bernard Wright(Who Do You Love) https://www.facebook.com/
Mar 29
BROWNSTONE JAZZ
107 Macon St Brooklyn 11216 4pm-7 $40
Kim Clarke Jazz Trio with guest artist Lakecia Benjamin on Alto Sax.
Tickets for this concert available @ http://www.ticketweb.com/
Mar 30 Cornelia St Cafe 29 Cornelia St NYC 10014
Judi Sivano & Michael Abene
Mar 31
Harlem On 5th Restaurant
2150 5th Ave NYC (@ 132nd St) 10037 9pm $10
CHERYL PYLE- ROBERTA PIKET DUO 9pm
3. Tom Chess
Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Time: 8pm
Venue: Cafe Nadery – Manhattan (16 W8th Street, New York, New York 10011)
Ticket: donation
Genre: oriental music/oud music
Tom Chess is a Multi-instrumentalist/
He has also conducted workshops and master classes/lectures and performances in the NYC Public school system as well as New Jersey and Universities and institutions such as Asia Society NY, Johnson State College Vermont, Columbia University, SUNY Fredonia College, McDaniels College, Carrol Community College, Md, and Gettysburg College Pa.
He currently lives in NYC where he performs with his different ensembles and works as a freelance musician. He has performed at Lincoln Center, The Turkish Embassy, The Pakastani Embassy, the Asian Society, The Natural History Museum, The Metropolitan Museum, The Himalayan Museum of Art and The United Nations among countless other venues in NYC and the United States. He has also performed on NPR and PBS. He has performed in Africa, Canada, Holland, and Italy. He has played on Grammy Nominated recordings. He has been awarded grants from the Turkish American Society and The Maryland Council For The Arts. He has been nominated for an 2012 Independent Music Award.
4. East Village Pharmacy feat. Shelita Thoma
Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Time: 6:30pm
Venue: Mercury Lounge (217 East Houston St., New York, NY 10002)
Price: $10
Genre: reggae
The band originated as a jazzy dub reggae band in 2000 when Sugarcane (bass) and Tad Pain (trumpet) lived above the East Village Pharmacy hence the name. Since then their sound has moved to reggaeton with their hit animated video “A la Playa (con Big Mato)” and more recently a roots reggae record “Little Mama” recorded with Hempress Sativa at the 12 Tribes of Israel Headquarters in Kingston, Jamaica pressed with VP Records. This track was featured in Sugarcane’s London award winning film “Countryman 2 : Listen to the Ocean”
Their current lineup features Bajan beauty Shelita Thomas, German sax man Welf Dorr (Underground Horns), Trini drummer Steve Romeo (Midnite), and Bolo, a keyboardist from Dominica.
5. Happy You / Loosie /Danger, U.S. & Girls and God
Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Time: 8pm
Venue: Bar Matchless (557 Manhattan ave @ Driggs Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11222)
Ticket: $7
Genre: indie rock/experimental folk/noise/classical
Happy You // family rock
https://
http://happyyou.me/
Loosie // fever dream pop
Alex Kirkpatrick – drums and songs
Sara McDonald – vox
Louis Cohen – guitar
Dominic Mekky – piano etc.
Ben Murphy – bass
Danger, U.S. // guitar
Tom Csatari Music and Cameron Kapoor duo
Girls and God // experimental folk/noise/classical
Dave Scanlon – guitar, voice
6. APNM presents a Tribute Concert for Rolf Schulte
Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Time: 8pm
Venue: Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Music Center (129 W. 67th Street, New York, NY 10023)
Ticket: $35
Genre: classical music
Association for the Promotion of New Music honors classical violinist ROLF SCHULTE for lifetime achievement of this most extraordinary artist, who has devoted himself courageously to the cause of living American composers. Hundreds of composers owe him a debt for championing their works, including: Elliott Carter, Donald Martino, Fred Lerdahl, Milton Babbitt, and Mario Davidovsky. Mr. Schulte, on principle, championed these works to small acclaim, compared with the recognition he would have received had he played just the standard repertoire. We wish to give Rolf the acknowledgment he deserves, and to give a new audience the benefit of his artistry.
Rolf Schulte, solo violin
Stephen Gosling, piano
Misha Amory, viola
Eric Bartlett, cello
David Grossman, bass
CLAUDE DEBUSSY Sonate
HAYES BIGGS a new work
IGOR STRAVINSKY Airs du Rossignol et Marche Chinoise from Le Rossignol
JOHN PEEL Cadenza from Violin Concerto
FRED LERDAHL Waltzes
7. RAM Concert: “Perceptions of Beauty” – Queens Performance
Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Time: 8pm
Venue: The Little Secret Theatre (4402 23rd Street, Long Island City, New York 11101)
Price: $10
Genre: classical music
Join us for an evening of new music for combinations of clarinet, violin, viola, cello, and piano with 5 world premieres by RAM composers GUY BARASH, DAVID FETHEROLF, GILBERT GALINDO, WANG JIE, and FRANCES WHITE. This show will also be the second performance by the newly formed RAM PLAYERS, this time with clarinetist Thomas Piercy, violinist Karen Kim, violist Robert Meyer, cellist Kate Dillingham, and pianist Amir Khosrowpour.
About the Program
In this program of music for clarinet, violin, viola, cello, and piano, RAM composers explore the elusive concept of beauty. With “Talkback V” for cello and computer, Guy Barash explores new playing techniques, enhanced timbre and other sonic features that are characteristic of the cello by magnifying subtle nuances of the instrument and bringing them to the foreground. “Talkback”, Barash says, “just like in online media, is a response to something more substantial: western tradition, the canon. It is smaller but often as significant as it is a sincere manifestation of the zeitgeist.” Wang Jie’s “Nose On Fire” for clarinet and piano explores both instruments’ beauty in virtuosity and companionability. David Fetherolf’s “TRIO” for bass clarinet, violin, and viola deals with motivic development somewhat influenced by analytical cubism. Gilbert Galindo’s “Echoes of the Divine” for violin, viola, cello, and piano pits expressive yearnings amidst a seemingly static sonic background, utilizing the basic textures of melody, accompaniment, and chorale. Another piano quartet on the program, “That of which I speak has all, all passed away” this time by Frances White hints at a mysterious, unknowable narrative. The title of White’s work is a line taken from a poem by the tragic Roma poet Papusza.
If you can’t make it to the Wednesday show in Queens, come to the Manhattan performance:
Friday, March 6, 2015, 8:00 PM at Benzaquen Hall/The DiMenna Center (450 W 37th Street, New York, New York 10018)
Admission: $20, complimentary wine reception to follow
8. Chris Pitsiokos Trio / UNDERMINE TRIO
Date: Thursday, March 5, 2015
Time: 8:30pm
Venue: Spectrum (121 Ludlow, Second Floor, New York, NY, 650-400-5100)
Ticket: $t.b.a.
Genre: nu jazz/improv
8:30pm: Chris Pitsiokos Trio (feat. Max Johnson and Kevin Shea)
9:15pm: UNDERMINE TRIO (Chris Pitsiokos – Brandon Lopez – Tyshawn Sorey)
9. Heather Powell
Date: Thursday, March 5, 2015
Time: 8pm
Venue: Duet Brasserie (37 Barrow St, New York, New York 10014)
Ticket: t.b.a.
Genre: folk / pop / singer-songwriter
This week True Groove Thursdays at Duet Brasserie is featuring Heather Powell debuting songs from her recent release, A Haze of Grays and Blues.
10. Golden Drum and Didge Project
Date: Friday, March 6, 2015
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Golden Drum (97 Green St Apt G24,Brooklyn, New York 11222)
Ticket: $20
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.
11. Warren Smith & Edith Lettner CD release show
Date: Friday, March 6, 2015
Time: 9:30pm
Venue: ShapeShifter Lab (18 Whitwell Pl, between Carroll St & 1st St, Brooklyn, NY 11215, 646-820-9452)
Ticket: $10
Genre: jazz/improv
Warren Smith & Edith Lettner Dialogues, CD release show!
Warren Smith – percussion, vibraphone, drums,
Edith Lettner– alto & soprano saxphone, duduk
On this live recording, saxophonist Edith Lettner (who also plays the Armenian duduk) presents herself in an exceedingly clairaudient improvisational union with veteran percussionist Warren Smith. What you can expect is improvisational music on a high level.
Lettner proves to be a sensitive and virtuoso instrumentalist who doesn’t dread leaving her comfort zone while she trenchantly interacts with her partner Smith. Their range covers careful touches to swirling cascades of notes, occasionally suggesting a penchant for small intervallics, many times even in parallel or jumbled in lively alternation. It’s a treat hearing how Lettner can get persistently wound up in small motifs and particles while she continuously refines them as if she were possessed (in the most positive sense of the word, naturally). Smith is a fabulous conversationalist and you wouldn’t expect anything else from such an accomplished player.
12. Raquy Danziger
Date: Saturday, March 7 and Sunday March 8, 2015
Time: 5pm
Venue: Sacred Arts Research Foundation (107 Green St #G55, Brooklyn, New York 11222)
Ticket: 3 hours each day of workshop: $150.00
Genre: Turkish style darbuka drumming workshop
Istanbul based Darbuka drummer Raquy Danziger will present Turkish style darbuka drumming. This workshop will cover:
– Basic Techniques
– Middle Eastern Rhythms
– Participants will have the opportunity to accompany melodic songs
This workshop is open to all levels. Participants should bring their own drum, preferably a Darbuka or Dumbek, but any kind of goblet drum will do.
Students will receive free admittance to Saturdays’ evening concert with Raquy and the Darbuka Genies. Begins at 8:00PM
Bio
Raquy Danziger is a celebrated performer, teacher and composer known worldwide for her expertise on the dumbek, the Middle-eastern hand drum. Hailing from unlikely Western roots, Raquy has distinguished herself as a unique phenomenon and earned a place of renown in the genre. In demand on several continents, she has collaborated and performed with several of the most famous Middle Eastern drummers in the world.
Now based in Istanbul, Turkey, Raquy specializes in a style know as the Turkish Split Hand technique. Her study, practice, and perfection of this technique with her teacher Bunyamin Olguncan and other master Turkish drummers has helped her realize a mission: to incorporate what she has learned into her original music and share it with audiences and students world wide through performances, workshops and instructional materials.
Raquy has had the honor of performing several times in Egypt as a soloist with Said El Artist (The Egyptian “King of Tabla”) and his drumming orchestra at the Cairo Opera House, the Alexandria Opera House, the Cairo Citadel, the historic Ewart Hall in downtown Cairo, and the Great Hall in the Bibliotheque in Alexandria. In 2005 she was the recipient of the Meet the Composer grant, which enabled her to perform her original composition with Said El Artist’s orchestra in Egypt. Raquy has appeared on Good Morning Egypt, Leila Kebira, O TV, the Culture Channel, and Turkish Television, and has been interviewed on Al Gezira.
In addition to the dumbek, Raquy also plays the twelve- string Kemenche Tarhu, a rare and exotic bowed instrument designed after the Iranian spike fiddle. She currently studies the kemenche with Iranian kemenche master Arlsan Hazreti in Istanbul. Raquy has composed many melodic pieces for the kemenche which she plays in her concerts and which can be heard in her albums. She is currently compiling a book of her melodic compositions.
13. Marjan Farsad
Date: Saturday, March 7, 2015
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012, ph: 212- 505-3474)
Ticket: $25
Genre: singer-song writer/folk pop
Born in 1983 in Tehran, Iran, Marjan Farsad is an animation filmmaker, illustrator, singer and songwriter. Debut performance in NYC!
Last year Marjan Farsad released Blue Flowers a series of romantic lullabies.
The dream-like poems and the simplicity of the melodies in expressing life, creates a deep and honest relationship with the audience and provokes empathy and nostalgia…
The combination of the modern tone of the songs with some of the old 60’s Iranian music elements separates this collection from any other Iranian or world music made until this date and makes it a unique and special album.
14. MUSIC IS THE MEDICINE presents: RAQUY DANZIGER’S DÜM (music) & “LATCHO DROM” (film)
Date: Saturday, March 7, 2015
Time: 6:30pm
Venue: Sacred Arts Research Foundation (107 Green St #G55, Brooklyn, New York 11222)
Ticket: $20
Genre: film and Turkish music
Journey to the mystical music of the East with a live concert by Raquy Danizger’s DÜM, a screening of the celebrated Gypsy music film Latcho Drom and our home cooked Vegetarian Turkish Food Bazaar!
Movie and Dinner: 6:30-8pm
Concert: 8-10pm
MUSIC IS THE MEDICINE is a vibrant series that showcases virtuosic musicians, cutting edge research on sound and vibration, film, and sound healers, all with a profound connection to the human spirit. Each event is exquisitely curated to evoke the power of imagination, to ignite the creative fires of our passion, to engage the senses and bring each participant new knowledge and inspiration in the fields of sound, vibration, music and performance. Music is the Medicine is collaboration between the Golden Drum and the Sacred Arts Research Foundation to bring you the timeless medicine that is music.
DÜM, A TURKISH RHYTHM CELEBRATION features dazzling drumming pieces using the Turkish Split Hand darbuka technique, backed by other Turkish percussion instruments such as bass darbuka, riq, bendir and also the Spanish cajon. Drumming pieces are interspersed with melodic compositions during which the performers switch between drums and melodic instruments. These mostly original compositions based on the Middle Eastern scales and rhythms feature Raquy playing the mystical 12–stringed King Kemenche Tarhu, a futuristic version of the Persian spike fiddle, the baglama (lute like instrument), oud, the Turkish kanun (lap harp), bass and the darbuka drum.
RAQUY DANZIGER is a celebrated performer, teacher and composer known worldwide for her expertise on the dumbek, the Middle-Eastern hand drum. Hailing from unlikely Western roots, Raquy has distinguished herself as a unique phenomenon and earned a place of renown in the genre. In demand on several continents, she has collaborated and performed with several of the most famous Middle Eastern drummers in the world.
In addition to Raquy Danziger, DÜM New York features:
Rami El – Aasser – Percussion and Turkish Baglama
Joaquim Colon – Darbuka
Adam Good – Oud
For more info about Raquy and DÜM visit http://raquy.com/
LATCHO DROM (film) by Tony Gatlif, follows the journey of the Romany people (widely known as GYPSIES) told through musicians and dancers of Rajahstan (India), Egypt, Turkey, Romania, Hungary Slovakia, France and Spain.
15. Voyagers – Edith Lettner project – World
Date: Saturday, March 7, 2015
Time: 8pm-10pm
Venue: Silvana (300 W 116th Street, between Manhattan Ave & 8th Ave, New York, NY 10026)
Ticket: $10
Genre: West African nu music
Featured artists: Yacouba Sissoko (kora) and Banning Eyre (guitar).
Edith Lettner was born in Linz, Austria, in 1964. In 1983 she made Vienna the centre of her work as a freelance musician and painter. She showed her work in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad and staged painting performances together with jazz musicians. As a saxophonist, she studied with Leo Wright, Manfred Balasch, Herwig Gradischnig and most recently Oscar Noriega in New York. She took classes in jazz theory with Uli Scherer.
16. KAKANDE
Date: Saturday, March 7, 2015
Time: 10pm-12am
Venue: Silvana (300 W 116th Street, between Manhattan Ave & 8th Ave, New York, NY 10026)
Ticket: $10
Genre: Guinean music
The balafon (xylophone) has electrified popular music in West Africa since the court of Emperor Sundiata Keita back in 1235. With his band Kakande, Famoro Dioubate updates this tradition with an explosive new groove. Lush vocals, sinewy koras, flutes, and cellos meet the virtuosic balafon of this master griot from Guinea.
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