1. Evolving Music
Date: Monday, April 28, 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 Jonathan Finlayson Tribute to Tchicai
Jonathan Finlayson – trumpet
Brian Settles – sax
Mike Pride – drums
8:45 Friends of John Tchicai
Rosie Hertlein – violin
John Ehlis – guitar
Steve Swell – trombone
10:00 Yoni Kretzmer 2 Bass Quartet
Yoni Kretzmer – tenor sax
Reuben Radding – double bass
Sean Conly – double bass
Mike Pride – drums
2. Alan “Juice” Glover Quartet
Date: Monday, April 28, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: Quinn’s (330 Main Street, Beacon, New York 12508)
Tickets: donation
Genre: jazz/improv
Alan “Juice” Glover. Glover is (another!) Poughkeepsie-based legend the jazz sessions will spotlight with this rare local gig. From his activism during the civil rights era, to his years running the legendary Firehouse Theater in the East Village in the ’70s, to his ongoing extraordinary work for decades in the Hudson Valley, the amazingly accomplished saxophonist, composer, activist, filmmaker, author and “Renaissance Man” “Juice” Glover leads a powerful quartet that includes Lora Cohan on piano, William Hopson on bass and Michael T.A. Thompson on drums.
3. Lost In The Stacks
Date: Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Time: 10:00am – 1:00pm
Venue: City Hall Park, Manhattan, NY
Ticket: free
Genre: pop/jazz/rock
Lost In The Stacks, 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 Manhattan 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.
LITS has played at numerous library functions, including the Coney Island Blues Festival, Service for the Aging (at the Saratoga, Dyker, New Utrecht, and Brooklyn Heights neighborhood libraries), the annual Book Drive, and has made several appearances at the Literacy Banquet at the Central Branch at Grand Army Plaza. Additionally, LITS has played a pair of gigs at Coney Island’s KeySpan Park, as part of a pre-game show before the Cyclones’ crowd and also at the annual art fair there. Other recent live shows include a gig as the featured band for the Senior Senior Prom at the Midwood Senior Center and a very well-received performance at 2011′s National Library Week rally at New York’s City Hall Park; this was their fourth straight year performing at said event.
In September of 2007, LITS was featured live on Brooklyn’s Channel 12 as part of the gala opening of the new Dr. S. Stevan Dweck Center for Contemporary Culture at the Central Branch of BPL.
Over the past couple of years, LITS has been recording a full-length CD of originals and covers at Royal Blue Studios in Brooklyn; and the CD is now OUT!!! You can get a copy either at one of our shows, or from one of the band members (if you can’t get to either, contact one of us and we can make arrangements to mail you one); and you can hear some of the tracks on our myspace page: www.myspace.com/lostinthestacks.
Rita Meade: vocals
Clyde Kerlew: vocals, bass, tenor sax, harmonica, random instruments
Richie Araldi: vocals, drums, percussion
Jack McCleland: guitar, backing vocals
Sharon Tidwell: flute, percussion
Matt Cole: alto and bari sax, percussion
Harold Stern: trombone, percussion
Kid Java: bass, blues harp
Larry Videlago: keyboards
4. Quickly Quietly w.Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad & Beat the Grid
Date: Thursday, May 1, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: BROOKLYN BOWL (61 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211, 718-963-3369)
Ticket: $10
Genre: edgy indie-esque rock
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. Quickly Quietly are: Aaron Hyzen (guitar,vocals/leader), Paul Sikivie (bass & synths), Lautaro Burgos (drums ), Greg Zweiben (synths & percussion)- This band plays edgy indie-esque rock.
5. Nels Cline Singers feat. Scott Amendola, Trevor Dunn, and Cyro Baptista
Date: Thursday, May 1, 2014
Time: 6:45pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012, ph: 212- 505-3474)
Ticket: $18
Genre: nu jazz/ambient jazz
Guitar explorer NELS CLINE is best known these days as the lead guitarist in the band Wilco. His recording and performing career – spanning jazz, rock, punk, and experimental – is well into its fourth decade, with over 160 recordings, including at least 30 for which he is leader. Born in Los Angeles in 1956, Cline has received many accolades including Rolling Stone anointing him as both one of 20 “new guitar gods” and one of the top 100 guitarists of all time.
Beyond Wilco, he leads The Nels Cline Singers (featuring Scott Amendola and bassist Trevor Dunn), and plays with Fig (a collaboration with Yuka Honda), BB&C (a trio with Tim Berne & Jim Black), Pillow Wand (a duo with guitarist Thurston Moore), and a new duo project with jazz guitar prodigy Julian Lage. A few of the other musicians with whom he has performed and/or recorded include: Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, Yoko Ono, Jeff Gauthier, Mike Watt, Carla Bozulich, Vinny Golia, Marc Ribot, Tinariwen, Julius Hemphill, Charlie Haden, Wadada Leo Smith, Lydia Lunch, and Lee Ranaldo. The new album by The Nels Cline Singers, Macroscope, will be released April 29.
featuring:
Nels Cline: guitar
Scott Amendola: drums
Trevor Dunn: bass
Cyro Baptista: percussion
6. Damon Banks CD Release Party
Date: Friday, May 2, 2014
Time: Rehearsal/ Workshop: 7:00pm, Performance: 8:15pm
Venue: ShapeShifter Lab (18 Whitwell Pl, between Carroll St & 1st St,Brooklyn, NY 11215, ph: 646-820-9452)
Ticket: $15
Genre: nu jazz/ambient music/soundscapes
Damon Banks’ (ex SoSaLa bassist) new project Travelguides is out now. This multi-media project (produced, written and conceived by Damon Banks) “Travelguides” project reflects the sights and the sounds of Damon’s life traveling the world as a professional musician.
Damon Banks (bass / compositions)
Sylvester “Sly” Scott (saxophone / flute)
Freddie Bryant (guitar)
Manu Koch (keyboards)
Bruce Cox (drums) … plus very special guests
7. Underground Horns
Date: Friday, May 2, 2014
Time: 11:45pm
Venue: Nublu (62 Ave C, NY)
Ticket: $10
Genre: brass/ Balkan/Jazz/Funk
The Underground Horns are cooking audio gumbo… our special recipe includes some funk, jazz, hip hop mixed with brass band traditions, spiced up with African and other world rhythms…music for the people!
8. Kinaar Kumar Seen, Parminder Payal Seen & Naren Budhakar
Date: Friday, May 2, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: New York Insight Meditation Center (28 W 27th Street 10th floor New York, NY 10001, Phone: 212-213-4802)
Ticket: $30
Genre: Indian classical sitar and vocal music
Kinaar Kumar Seen is the eldest son of the well-known musical authority Ustad Lachhman Singh Seen of the Punjab Gharana. He started learning music from his father at an early age in the traditional style of Punjab Gharana. He has been performing in major music festivals all over the world including the famous Harvallabh Sangeet Sammelan in India in 1979 and 1980. He has had numerous performances all over the United States, Canada, Europe, Africa and the West Indies.
Parminder Payal Seen‘s initial training began with the steerage from Srimati Harsh Anand. Later she began schooling under the austere guidance of Guruji Satish Chander of Sham Churasi Gharana in the aesthetic and traditional training of Indian classical music. She continues to perform both nationally and internationally.
Naren Budhakar was born in Pune. His father, as a violinist, provided Naren his earliest exposure to Indian classical music. His cousin, Shashikant Purandare, was a lifelong student of the Delhi style of percussion. He further studied with Samir Chatterjee, tabla maestro from Kolkata and Shabbir Nissar, the tabla wizard from Hyderabad and the son of legendary Ustad Shaikh Dawood.
9. Mitra Sumara
Date: Saturday, May 3, 2014
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Barbes (376 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY)
Ticket: $10
Genre: Pop & Funk from Pre-Revolutionary Iran
Mitra Sumara pays homage to the vibrant pop and funk music of 60s/70s Iran. The band takes off on the sound of pre-Revolutionary Iran, which mixed the beats of Fela Kuti, salsa, and disco with Middle Eastern melodies and tragic poetry. Mitra Sumara captures all this while injecting a contemporary spirit into the infectious originals. The group plays hits by Iran’s beloved divas Googoosh, Pari Zangeneh, Parva, and intoxicating Bandari beat tunes by Zia Atabi.
10. Allen Lowe & The Constant Sorrow Orchestra
Date: Saturday, May 3, 2014
Time: 10pm
Venue: Spectrum (121 Ludlow, Second Floor, New York, NY, 650-400-5100)
Ticket: $15
Genre: no idea how this orchestra sounds
The Constant Sorrow Orchestra with: Bobby Zankel, Brian Simontacchi, Lewis Porter, Christopher Meeder, Randy Sandke, Hayes Greenfield, Ray Suhy, Kevin Ray, Paul Austerlitz, Lou Grassi, special guest Matt Ship
11. Bladerunner (US debut) featuring John Zorn , Bill Laswell , and Dave Lombardo (Slayer)
Date: Sunday, May 4, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012, ph: 212- 505-3474)
Ticket: $40
Genre: It’s not jazz, it’s not rock, it’s not funk, but all of these combined
“The Bladerunner Project”, a John Zorn outfit including the godlike talents of Zorn on his signature instrument, prolific modern musician and bassist Bill Laswell, and heavy metal drumming powerhouse Dave Lombardo (Slayer, Fantômas, etc.) will deliver an electrifying performance. The music created by these gentlemen is something to experience first hand. It’s not jazz, it’s not rock, it’s not funk, but all of these combined.
12. Lalgudi GJR Krishnan – Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi
Date: Sunday, May 4, 2014
Time: 2pm – 5pm
Venue: The American-Scandinavian Foundation – Scandinavian House (58 Park Avenue, NY, NY 10016)
Tickets: $25 – $40
Genre: Carnatic violin duet/Indian classical music
Lalgudi GJR Krishnan – Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi accompanied by Trichy Sankaran & Tirupanithura Radhakrishnan
