1. Roberto’s invited you to “Greg Osby Sextet + Johnathan Blake Quartet”
Date: Monday, April 12th, 2010
Time: 8pm Greg Osby Sextet (Greg Osby – saxophone, Sara Serpa – voice, Nir Felder- guitar, Adam Birnbaum – piano,
Joseph Lepore – bass, John Davis – drums), 10pm Johnathan Blake Quartet (Johnathan Blake-Drums, Jaleel Shaw-Alto Sax, Mark Turner-Tenor Sax, Kiyoshi Kitagawa-Bass).
Venue: Rosie O’Grady’s (149 West 46 Street, New York, NY 10036)
Ticket: $10
Genre: Jazz
2. Myron Walden
Date: Monday, April 12th, 2010
Times: 8pm – 11pm
Venue: Coco 66 (66 Greenpoint Ave, Between Franklin & West, Brooklyn NY 11222, 718.389.7392)
Ticket: $10
Genre: Jazz-Funk-Soul
Myron Walden‘s long had his jazz bona fides in order but his new project is different. If you’re a fan of Booker T and The MGs, Soulive, Jimmy Smith, or the Dap-Kings, you’ve got to take a listen to Myron Walden Countryfied. The outfit brings elements of blues, gospel, soul, funk, rock and roll, and jazz into a downhome organ and sax-driven mix.The member ares: Myron Walden [tenor sax], Mike Moreno [guitar], Ron Oswanski [organ], Kenneth Salters [drums]
3. Lost In The Stacks
Date: Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Time: 11:00am – 2:00pm
Venue: City Hall Plaza, New York City
Ticket: t.b.a.
Genre: Rock, Pop, Jazz, Blues
Lost In The Stacks returns to City Hall to play at the festivities for National Library week. This will be a great opportunity to catch them outdoors, and also to show your support for New York City’s libraries (who will have representatives in attendance), which face truly devastating cuts.
Born in 2004 as a 7-piece with a different rhythm section, Brooklyn Public Library’s own Lost In The Stacks now plays all over Brooklyn and beyond as a dynamic 10-piece unit. In addition to an expanding number of originals, LITS plays many rock, pop, and jazz standards in their own unique style. They’ll be playing for up to 3 hours (including breaks), and featuring our amazing new singer Rita Meade on several ‘Stacks debuts.
4. Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars (w. Bajah & The Dry Eye Crew and Janka Nabay )
Date: Wednesday, April 14,2010
Time: 8pm
Venue: Highline Ballr0om (431 W 16th St., New York, NY 10011, between 9th and 10th Ave , (212) 414-5994)
Tickets: $25.00 in advance, $30.00 day of show.
Genre: World/Sierra Leone Pop
Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars have realized a unique and seamlessly coherent sound: a fusion of traditional West African music and roots reggae, inflected with New Orleans styles.
5. Fatima Spar aand The Freedom Fries
Date: Friday, April 16,2010
Times: 8pm and 10pm
Venue: Knitting Factory (361 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn , NY 11211)
Tickets: $20 and $25
Genre: Gypsy?Balkan Beats
A Vienna-based group formed in 2004, Fatima Spar and the Freedom Fries is a Euro-Asian indie jazz band with a Turkish singer that integrates swing and musical styles from the Balkans. Their music encompasses an artistic blend of multiple instruments like trumpet, saxophone, accordion and bass. The band derives its name from the euphemism for French Fries used in the U.S. after the French government’s refusal to support the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
6. Tania Stavreva – The Modern Piano Project
Date: Friday, April 16, 2010
Time: 8pm
Venue: Roulette (20 Greene St, New York, NY 10013)
Ticket: $15
Genre: modern piano music
Tania Stavreva (Bulgaria) performs electro-acoustic works by Mason Bates, Carl Vine and
The World Premiere of Marc Rossi’s “Dream Catcher” (original version). More about this concert.
7. World Music Institute Presents – Songs of Mali: Rokia Traore
Date: Saturday, April 17,2010
Time: 7pm
Venue: Highline Ballr0om (431 W 16th St., New York, NY 10011, between 9th and 10th Ave , (212) 414-5994)
Ticket: $28
Genre: World/Mali
Malian singer Rokia Traore‘s work blends traditional African music with an array of musical influences, ranging from classical to jazz, and from folk to blues to Western pop. Traore is especially praised for her live performances, during which she enthralls audiences with her hypnotic singing and graceful dancing.
8. Dawoud
Date: Saturday, April 17,2010
Time: 8pm – 10pm
Venue: the University of the Streets/Muhammad Salahuddeen Memorial Theater (130 east 7th street. 2nd floor. NY)
Ticket: $ 12
Genre: electronic sitar and roots music
Dawoud on electric sitar will be joined by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi (saxophone) and Ravish Momin (percussion / laptop). This is the second time Dawoud is playing in this format. Dawoud’s approach to music is very ecletic and pluralistic. He plays the sitar in a tradtional and at the same time in a contemporary way: the raga of today.
9. World Music Institute Presents – Ana Moura
Date: Sunday, April 18,2010
Time: 7pm
Venue: Peter Norton/Symphony Space (2537 Broadway and 95th St., NY, 212-864-5400)
Tickets: $32, WMI Friends $27, Students $18
Genre: Fado/Portugal
Ana Moura, an outstanding voice in the new generation of fado singers, sings with a maturity that speaks of the pain of separation, unrequited love, and longing – themes portrayed in this poetic, deeply expressive genre.
10. Mandola Joe & The String Messengers
Date: Sunday, April 18,2010
Time: 8pm – 10pm
Venue: The P&G Bar (West 78th St & Columbus Ave)
Ticket: $ free
Genre: Bluegrass, Country
Mandola Joe and The String Messengers will be appearing at the P&G Bar Sunday for their first full show of the new decade. The String Messengers are Frank York on electric fiddle, Jonathan York on rockin’ viola (vye-ola), Jeff York on atomic guitar, and the irrepressible Ratzo York on the super-string bass.
