1. Evolving Music
Date: Monday, March 24, 2014
Time: 7:30pm to 11pm
Venue: Clemente Soto Velez Center (107 Suffolk St, New York, NY 10002)
Tickets: $15 per set
Genre: jazz/improv
7:30 Interstellar Space Duos Peskoff/Lewis
James Brandon Lewis – sax
Haim Peskoff – drums
8:45 Interstellar Space Duos Fujiwara/Bynum
Taylor Ho Bynum – trumpet
Tomas Fujiwara – drums
10:00 Interstellar Space Duos Rainey/Laubrock
Ingrid Laubrock – sax
Tom Rainey – drums
2. Kosi
Date: Monday, March 24, 2014
Time: 8pm-9pm
Venue: Silvana (300 W 116th Street, between Manhattan Ave & 8th Ave, New York, NY 10026)
Ticket: $10
Genre: singer-song writer
w. Dawoud Kringle on guitar
Kosi’s more than just a drama queen. She’s got piercing eyes and a voice that’s larger than her body. But, small as she is, she won’t fit in a box. She switches styles more quickly than you can follow. First she’s jazz, then she’s blues, then she’s rock, but always powerful.
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3. MUSIC/FEAST
Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Time: 7pm
Venue: The Gershwin Hotel (7 East 27th Street, between 5th and Madison, New York, NY)
Ticket: $10
Genre: improv/jazz
Join us at The Gershwin Hotel on Tuesday, March 25th for our latest installment of MUSIC/FEAST. Doors open at 7:00 with full spread of delicious food followed by sets with Jonas Tauber on solo bass, Karma Mayet Johnson in duet with guitarist, Marvin Sewell, and KPage on vocal loops and improvisation. $10 includes awesome music and awesome food!
4. Alana Amram & the Rough Gems/Invisible Familiars & Adira Amram
Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Time: 8:30pm
Venue: The Knitting Factory (361 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211, Tel: 347-529-6696)
Ticket: $10
Genre: folk/Americana/Country
“Alana delivers a warm deep vocal, without melodrama.…The Rough Gems provides drive in the way Crazy Horse added a punch Neil Young’s music. – NO DEPRESSION”
Over the last decade Alana Amram has opened, sang and played along side an endless array of great musicians, young and old and as varied as her musical taste. A short list includes: Pete Seeger, Peter Rowan, Abigail Washburn, Jimmy Dale Gilmore, Langhorne Slim, Nicole Atkins, Alberta Cross and Psychic TV. Her music has been featured in ads for Stetson, the web series ”The Actress” and in several independent films. Alana is also a filmmaker and most recently directed a short documentary called PORTAL TO POWER. She has played bass in Lights (Drag City), Cliffie Swan, Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, Animal Cannibal Tribe, Sophia Knapp, The Fame and Blue Sparks.
5. Tarana
Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Venue: Learner Piano Lounge (Columbia University, 2920 Broadway, NY)
Tickets: free?
Genre: jazz/improv/electronics
Live at Lerner will be returning the Piano Lounge this Wednesday with Tarana, a “Synth/Drums duo blending influences from Jazz to Juke to Disco to Bollywood & blurring lines between the electronic & acoustic.” In other words, a sound perfect for capturing some of that on-break feeling.
Imagining the horn hook from “Azeem” wafting through the building,
6. JORGE SYLVESTER ACE COLLECTIVE (Afro-Caribbean-Experiment)
Date: Thursday, March 27, 2014
Time: 8:00 – 9:00pm
Venue: ShapeShifter Lab (18 Whitwell Pl, between Carroll St & 1st St, Brooklyn, NY 11215, 646-820-9452)
Ticket: $15
Genre: jazz
FEATURING:
JORGE SYLVESTER ~ ALTO SAXOPHONE AND COMPOSITIONS
NORA McCARTHY ~ VOICE, COMPOSITIONS and POETRY
PABLO VERGARA ~ PIANO
DONALD NICKS ~ ELECTRIC BASS GUITAR
ELLIOT HUMBERTO KAVEE ~ DRUMS
Waldron Mahdi Ricks our trumpet player will not be with us on this night as he is playing in Italy, he will be with us in spirit though so Jorge and I will be holding down the front line horn section and our drummer, Kenny is also on tour but we have the amazingly talented Elliot Humberto Kavee who plays with Henry Threadgill’s Zooid with us and that will be thrilling.
The ACE (Afro-Caribbean Experimental) Collective is breaking new territory with its musical amalgamation of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora, the jazz tradition, and free music art-forms. Artists such as Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Dizzy Gillespie used Afro-Caribbean rhythms in their compositions, but their work didn’t experiment with the pulses in these rhythms; part of what sets the ACE Collective apart is their expansion and reconfiguration of these pulses. In addition, the Collective includes poetry and storytelling in many of its pieces, and they also bring to light traditional songs from the Afro-Caribbean tradition. Clearly this music goes deep and wide, and the result is a multi-layered, multi-cultural aural banquet. Florence Wetzel – ALL ABOUT JAZZ, November 28, 2013
7. The Get Down feat. Natasha Blank, Sascha Lewis, The Haiku Guys, a.o.
Date: Thursday, March 27, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: Cielo (18 Little West 12th Street, New York NY 10014, 212-645-5700)
Ticket: $10
Genre: electronics/dance
Natasha Blank is a movement catalyst, beat curator and the founder of Get Your Dance On. She provides sonics for everything from underground warehouse parties to Fashion Week. Known for her high energy dance antics behind the DJ booth, she infuses all her work with the desire to fill up this world with more truth and beauty than there was just a second ago.
Culture vulture/co-founder of Flavorpill Sascha Lewis is also secretly a DJ. He specializes in old school hip hop and funky classics, but isn’t afraid of some good minimal tech house.
Entry is now $5 w/ RSVP before 8pm here: http://bit.ly/1em2Yn1
$10 after 8pm
Big sound, the best crowd EVER, and serious music to move ya: because we love the way 2am at an amazing club feels, but we also like daylight.
Dress to sweat.
No phones on the dance floor.
Bring a cowbell
Use your voice
Bring a friend
Make one there
Dance harder than you have in years
Wear something that makes you happy
Leave the chocolate at home (it’s free at the bar)
:: Music by stevetek (SouLTek), Natasha Blank, and Sascha Lewis
:: Dance floor haiku by The Haiku Guys
:: Musical massage by the minute with Tim Grae
:: Hosted by the Sister of Sparkle herself, Michelle Joni
:: Live performance TBA courtesy of BEAT NYC
:: Full bar supplemented with goodies from Tumeric- The Elixir of Life and Divine Chocolate USA ♥
8. WEIRD WEDNESDAYS
Date: Thursday, March 27, 2014
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Barbes (376 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY)
Ticket: $10
Genre: performing music & sounds on invented instruments
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.
9. quickly quietly
Date: Thursday, March 27, 2014
Time: midnight
Venue: Rockwood Music Hall (196 Allen St, New York, New York 10002)
Ticket: free
Genre: indie rock/elecronics/porgressive/psychedelic
quickly quietly formed in 2011, at the end of the year they released their debut Seven EP. The band first played together in prospect-lefferts garden and continued grinding out improv sessions into a fresh sound from analog drum machines, deep guitar and heavy rhythms. The new sound, exemplified by the track “Nothing But Air,” is very electric and very live. Lautaro on drums and samples, Paul on bass and keys, Aaron on guitar and vox. Each member serves double duty to the music creating a eclectic sound and a wide palate, uncharacteristic of a rock trio. If there was an ethos to the band it would be song, texture, rhythm, electrified.
Aaron Copland: hyzen vocals, electric guitar, effects
Paul Sikivie: electric bass, analog synths, tr909
Lautaro Burgos (from SoSaLa): drums, percussion, sampler
Greg Zweiben (from SoSaLa): bass, moog synth
10. Marla Mase with the Tomas Doncker BAND
Date: Thursday, March 27, 2014
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: The Pyramid Club NY (101 Ave A Between 6th & 7th Streets, New York, New York 10009)
Ticket: $10
Genre: singer-song writer/rock
Marla Mase is a writer/performer/producer/singer/songwriter from New York City. She writes songs, plays, monologues, short stories, erotica, blogs, and poems. She is known for her gutsy, sexy, raw performance style and her intelligent lyrics and is regarded by her peers as a true musical pioneer. Her songs, a mix of world beat, spoken word, funk, r&b, punk, soul, and classic rock-n-roll are infused with GLOBAL SOUL, the signature sound of Tomás Doncker, her guitarist, co-writer and producer . She is backed by his band, the Tomás Doncker Band and is signed to Tomás’ label, True Groove Records.
11. EVIYAN
Date: Thursday, March 27, 2014
Venue: David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center (NY)
Time: 7:30pm
Ticket: free
Genre: jazz/ambient/folk/minimal
Eviyan is Iva Bittova, Gyan Riley & Evan Ziporyn: three unique composer-performers merging into a singular sound, an intimate, acoustic blend of world roots, post-minimalism, jazz, rock, and cabaret. These eclectic, genre-crossing musicians join forces to create a soundtrack for the 21st-century global village: simple, organic and direct, a music of intensity and lyricism, earthy impact and instrumental virtuosity.
12. Leni Stern 3
Date: Friday, March 28, 2014
Time: 6pm
Venue: Rockwood Music Hall (196 Allen St, New York, New York 10002)
Ticket: free
Genre: West African Pop
LENI STERN. An acclaimed guitarist and vocalist brings her African music ensemble to Barbés. The music juxtaposes Stern’s trademark inventive guitar and vocal explorations with the indigenous sounds of accomplished African instrumentalists. The result is at once haunting, exuberant, cinematic, personal and resoundingly assured. Featuring Leni Stern (guitar & vocals), Mamadou Ba (bass), Yacouba Sissoko (cora), and Makan Kouyate (percussion)
13. MNDR/The Mast & Milan
Date: Friday, March 28, 2014
Time: pm
Venue: Glasslands Gallery (289 Kent Avenue, Brooklyn, NY112249)
Ticket: $12
Genre: pops/electronics
milán is the music of Maria Neckam, who has made a name for herself on the international stage as a unique and versatile singer/songwriter coming out of the New York downtown scene. She has been praised by the press — from the New York Times to NPR’s “A Blog Supreme,” and Le Monde in France — as a “trailblazer,” and “natural wonder.” She has also lent her voice to countless other artists’ projects, such as: four-time Grammy award winner Erykah Badu, composer Ted Hearne and the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, HipHop producer Mesta Bish, and Indie Rock artist David Bronson.
MNDR: Amanda Warner and Peter Wade were introduced to each other one year ago, when she arrived in New York from Oakland, CA. Born and raised on a farm in Fargo, North Dakota, Amanda has used MNDR as an “alter-ego” artist nickname in various scenes across the US, having toured with and opened for groups including Yacht, The Shins, and Deerhoof. A self professed gear head, Amanda started programming beats as a teenager and her impressive skills recently landed her an offer from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ to design their touring keyboard rig for It’s Blitz.
The Mast: The Brooklyn-based duo The Mast is vocalist and instrumentalist Haleh Gafori and percussionist and beat maker Matt Kilmer. Influenced by early IDM, post dubstep, and experimental beat music as well as acts like Mount Kimbie, Massive Attack, and Bonobo, the band creates a warm and inviting sound that propels the body to dance and soaks the mind in a bath of endorphins. In their live shows, The Mast creates a full-spectrum sonic experience incorporating live electronics, percussion, and vocal improvisation within and between songs enabling the spontaneity they were accustomed to as instrumentalists
14. Joanie Leeds & The Nightlights
Date: Saturday, March 29, 2014
Time: 11am & 2pm
Venue: Leonard Nimoy Thalia/Symphony Space (2537 Broadway @ 95th Street, NYC, 212-864-5400)
Tickets: $20 (adults), $15 (kids)
Genre: kids pop
Joanie Leeds & The Nightlights will be rocking some new tunes from our upcoming album, Good Egg! – Joanie Leeds has one of those big, beautiful rock ‘n roll sopranos that can go full-out or soft and tender, and she uses both to full effect. Her tuneful melodies and rich, funny and thoughtful child-respecting lyrics give depth and irresistible zip to songs about sunglasses at the beach, goodnight hugs, popcorn popping and creative blame-shifting.
15. Mitra Sumara & Amir Vahab
Date: Saturday, March 29, 2014
Time: 7:45pm
Venue: Drom (85 Avenue A, NY, NY 10009, 212- 777-1157)
Ticket: $20
Genre: Persian pops & classical music
Mitra Sumara is New York City’s only Farsi Funk group. This international party band gets down with the vibrant pop and funk music of 60s/70s Iran, an infectious pre-Revolutionary sound which combined the beats of Fela Kuti, salsa, and disco with Middle Eastern melodies and flowery poetry.
Interpreting hits by Iran’s beloved singers Googoosh, Pooran, Aghassi, Leila Forouhar, Nooshafarin, and Zia Atabi’s intoxicating Bandari beat tunes, Mitra Sumara’s repertoire also includes American hits of the era translated into Farsi. East meets West meets East while delighted audiences sing along.
The New York Times calls him the “ambassador for a silenced music.” Honored as a peacemaker and virtuoso, Amir Alan Vahab is one of New York’s most celebrated and distinguished composer / vocalists of sufi and folk music; his work transcends political boundaries while maintaining traditional sensibilities in a way few artists can manage. Amir Vahab’s music is rooted in tradition, but has been influenced by contemporary sounds. Like Amir himself, his music symbolizes diversity-in-unity. Amir Vahab is currently Teaching and lecturing private and group classes in universities, libraries, museums and cultural centers on the one hand, and organizes music therapy and sound healing workshops on the other.
16. Zakir Hussain’s Masters of Percussion
Date: Saturday, March 29, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: The Theater at Madison Square Garden (4 Pennsylvania Plaza – 7 Ave – Btw 31/33 Street – , New York, NY)
Tickets: $45, $50, $70, $125 (Tickets only available through MSG: http://www.ticketmaster.com/
Genre: Indian classical music
The preeminent classical tabla virtuoso of our time, the legendary Zakir Hussain returns to NYC with his Masters of Percussion ensemble, in an exciting new venue- The Theater at Madison Square Garden. Hussain’s consistently brilliant performances have established him as a national treasure in his native India, and a musical phenomenon worldwide. Renowned for his mesmerizing improvisations, dazzling technique and beguiling wit, he has been touring internationally for decades, showcasing premier percussionists in unforgettable ensemble configurations.
He will be joined by: V Selvaganesh, kanjira and ghatam (clay pot); Steve Smith, drums; Niladri Kumar, sitar; Dilshad Khan, sarangi; Vijay S Chavan, dholki; Deepak Bhatt, dhol. With special guests, Kathak dancer Antonia Minnecola and vocalist Padmashri Hariharan.
17. Terry Riley and Gyan Riley
Date: Sunday, March 30, 2014
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012, ph: 212- 505-3474)
Ticket: $20, 25, 30
Genre: classical/ambient/minimal music
California Composer Terry Riley launched what is now known as the Minimalist movement with his revolutionary classic IN C in 1964. This seminal work Provided a new concept in musical form based on interlocking repetitive patterns. It’s impact was to change the course of 20th Century music and it’s influence has been heard in the works of prominent composers such as Steve Reich, Philip Glass and John Adams and in the music of Rock Groups such as The Who, The Soft Machine, Tangerine Dream, Curved Air and many others. Terry’s hypnotic, multi-layered, polymetric, brightly orchestrated eastern flavored improvisations and compositions set the stage for the prevailing interest in a new tonality. (read more at http://terryriley.net/)
