1. Nublu Orchestra conducted by Butch Morris
Date: Monday, March 21, 2011
Time: 9:30pm & 11pm
Venue: Nublu
Ticket: $10
Genre: Jazz/improve
Come down to Nublu for a magical evening featuring the legendary Butch Morris conducting a spontaneous musical creation into being with some of New York City’s most talented musicians. Either this week or next week will be the end of the current run, so don’t miss this rare musical treat.
Video about Nublu
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2. JAPAN TAIKO FUNDRAISER by Kaoru Watanabe Taiko Ensemble
Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Time: 9pm
Venue: Zebulon (258 Wythe Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211)
Ticket: $12
Genre: Japanese taiko music, indie rock, electronics
Kaoru Watanabe will donate all money raised to a fund set up by the Japan Society. The performance will feature among others, Oda Yosuke, a taiko player from the known Japanes taiko group Kodo, SUGAR LIFE ACOUSTIC , PUREHORSEHAIR and GOLDEN DISKÓ SHIP (from Berlin).
3. Elliott Sharp: Sharp Plays Monk
Date: Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Time: 8pm
Venue: The Stone (is located at the corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street)
Ticket: $10
Genre: contemporary music/electronics/improve
Elliott Sharp on solo guitar interpreting the music of Thelonious Monk. Documented on the Cleanfeed CD Sharp? Monk? Sharp! Monk!.
4. Scott Kettner’s FORRO BRASS BAND
Date: Thursday, March 24, 2011
Time: 10pm
Venue: Barbes (376 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY)
Ticket: $10
Genre: live dance music from northeastern Brazil
SCOTT KETTNER’S FORRO BRASS BAND. The latest creative output of Nation Beat and Maracatu New York ringleader Scott Kettner is a funk infused brass band that performs infectiously live dance music from northeastern Brazil. This group travels between North and South America as if there were no borders or passports needed. Ranging from fresh originals to forró classics, this Brooklyn-based group throws a global dance party you wont forget. Scott Kettner: drums; Brian Drye: trombone; Rodrigo Ursaia: flute; Petr Cancura: saxophone and John Altieri: tuba.
5. Thurston Moore
Date: Friday, March 25, 2011
Time: 8pm
Venue: The Stone (is located at the corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street)
Ticket: $10
Genre: contemporary music/electronics/improve
Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, Tom Surgal (drums) and Lin Culbertson (electronics) are goincialg to do something special for people who like surprises. Good or bad ones?!
6. Eugene Chadbourne (aka Doc Chad) Solo
Date: Saturday, March 26, 2011
Time: 8pm & 10pm
Venue: The Stone (is located at the corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street)
Ticket: $10 each set
Genre: contemporary music/electronics/improve
Eugene Chadbourne (vocals, modified electric dobro, deering goodtime 5-string banjo). In this period Doc Chad is presenting a retrospective of original songs and compositions, included are many old favorites as well as pieces from the new CDs Reason and Treason.
7. SALIM WASHINGTON ENSEMBLE
Date: Saturday, March 26, 2011
Time: 10pm
Venue: the University of the Streets (130 east 7th street. 2nd floor. NY)
Ticket: $10
Genre: Jazz
SALIM WASHINGTON ENSEMBLE featuring Salim Wasington on tenor sax, flute, & oboe, Josh Evans – trumpet, Frank Lacy – trombone, Aaron James – bass, and Malik Washington – drums.
8. Nashaz
Date: Saturday, March 26, 2011
Time: 8pm
Venue: Zora Art Space (315 4th Avenue between 3rd and 2nd Streets in Park Slope, Brooklyn)
Ticket: $12
Genre:
Nashaz performs original music that imagines what it would sound like if jazz was invented in the middle east. The seeds of the band were sown in 1995 when founder/oud player Brian Prunka was an upstart jazz musician in New Orleans. Catching a cab to a gig one night, the Egyptian driver noticed the guitar and started talking to him about music. As he dropped Prunka off, he suggested, “you should learn to play the oud, it is the most beautiful instrument.” Although the comment prompted little more than puzzlement at the time, it turned out to be a prophecy of sorts: soon after, Prunka came across an oud album while digging through a record store and bought it on a whim. When he put the music on, he was hooked. He learned as much of the music as he could on the guitar and then started trying to get his hands on an oud–which was not easy in New Orleans. After months of searching, he finally found someone who could ship him one from California. Within weeks of receiving it, he had obsessively taught himself dozens of tunes and started performing on oud with some of the more open-eared jazz musicians in the city. He later traveled to study with renowned Arab musicians including Simon Shaheen and Bassam Saba and eventually wound up in Brooklyn, where he currently resides. Nashaz is: Brian Prunka (oud), Kenny Warren (trumpet), Nathan Herrera (alto sax), Ben Campbell (bass), Rich Stein (percussion)
9. Imani Uzuri’s Mosaic: A Sacred Music Extravaganza
Date: Saturday, March 26, 2011
Time: 7pm
Venue: Joe’s Pub (425 Lafayette St, NY)
Ticket: $15
Genre: Jazz/R&B
Imani Uzuri presents MOSAIC: a music series which is redefining and expanding what we call Sacred music. MOSAIC features a multicultural melange of contemporary women, artists and projects, who deliver a spiritually expansive range of healing music from Ragas to Rock!
Recently featured in the New York Times,innovative vocalist/composer/performer Imani Uzuri is an eclectic artist who creates, performs and collaborates across various genres including concerts, recordings, experimental theater, performance art and sound installations. New York Magazine has called her work “stunning”.
This concert will also feature:
Neel Murgai – sitar and daf
Tarrah Reynolds – violin and vocals
Marika Hughes – cello
Christian Ver Halen – guitar and very Special Guests!
10. Halau’o Keikiali’i
Date: Saturday, March 26, 2011
Time: 8pm
Venue: Peter Jay Sharp Theatre/Symphony Space (2537 Broadway at 95th Street, New York, NY 10025-6990)
Ticket: $$30; Members, Children $25; Students $20
Genre: Hawaiin muisc
The nationally renowned Halau’o Keikiali’i performs exquisite interpretations of ancient dances and chants and contemporary Hawaiian music and choreography, illuminating the art of sacred hula and other Hawaiian traditions with a rare beauty and grace. Directed by kumu hula (hula master) Kawika Alfiche, the halau is comprised of several generations of artists and has shared the stage with such leading Hawai’ian artists as the Makhaha Sons, Mailani Makainai, and Cyril Pahinui.
11. Stephane Wrembel presents THE DJANGO EXPERIMENT
Date: Sunday, March 27, 2011
Time: 9pm
Venue: Barbes (376 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY)
Ticket: $10
Genre: Django Reinhardt guitar music
STEPHANE WREMBEL presents THE DJANGO EXPERIMENT: French virtuoso Guitarist Stephane Wrembel seems to have channeled both the technique and the fire of Django Reinhardt. He studied for years with the manouche (the French Gypsies) but has also gotten deep into American vernacular musical styles. His weekly sets will mix up the traditional Django repertoire along gypsy swing re-interpretations of standards.
