1. Evolving Music feat. Rob Brown

Date: Monday, April 7, 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 Rob Brown/ Daniel Levin
Rob Brown – alto
Daniel Levin – cello

8:45 Rob Brown Quartet
Kenny Warren – trumpet
Peter Betenc – bass
Juan Pablo Carletti – drums

10:00 HORACE TAPSCOT birthday conduction by Will Connell

Rob Brown – alto sax
Ras Moshe – soprano sax
Vincent Chancey – fr horn
Steve Swell – trombone
Matt Lavell – flugel horn
Larry Roland – bass
Rosi Hertlein – violin
Jesse Dolman – tuba
John Pietaro – vibes
Jeremy Carlstedt – drums

2. Something Else!: A Free Jazz Jam @ Quinn’s

Date: Monday, April 7, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: Quinn’s (330 Main Street, Beacon, New York 12508)
Tickets: donation
Genre: jazz/improv

Beginning Monday April 7, the jazz sessions held at Quinn’s will reserve every first Monday of the month for “Something Else!: A Free Jazz Jam at Quinn’s”. Hosted and curated by local saxophonist, composer, writer and educator, Chris Kelsey, these nights will feature a jam session that truly deserves the distinction of “Something Else!”. Featuring local players and special invited guest artists for each evening, “Something Else!” promises to be an adventurous evening of instant composition, i.e. improvisation. On April 7, guest artists will include past Quinn’s jazz session performer, bassist Francois Grillot, as well as drummer Enrique Haneine.

3. GRALBUM Launch Party

Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Time: 7pm to 10pm
Venue: Soho Gallery for Digital Art (138 Sullivan St.,New York, New York 10012)
Tickets: $11 per set
Genre: music and multi media

Headphones On, Eyes Open: GRALBUM is a Multimedia Publishing Platform/iPad App enabling creators to merge music with visuals & storytelling into an interactive whole.

GRALBUM was created, and the Gralbum Collective founded and curated by Sarth Calhoun, an electronic musician & soundscape producer, who performed with Lou Reed in the Metal Machine Trio and collaborated with Reed on a tai chi meditation record, Reed and Sarth then recorded Lulu with Metallica. Sarth created GRALBUM to enable musicians to create new experiences and in a new way.

Gralbum Launch Party NYC will feature live performances by musicians who will also be on hand to discuss & demo their Gralbums. A multiple screen digital gallery will display images from the first wave of Gralbums and iPads and headphones will be available for maximum Gralbum appreciation. Exclusive bonus tracks for free download onsite for guests who bring iPads.

James Fei’s Hysteresis
Featuring James Fei: saxophones & contrabass clarinet: Josh Sinton: saxophones & contrabass clarinet; Jen Baker: trombone; Christopher McIntyre: trombone; Kato Hideki: electric bass; Ed Tomney: analog electronics

Anthony Braxton’s Composition No. 46 (1975)
Featuring:  Anthony Braxton: conductor & saxophones; Vincent Chancey: French horn; Jacob Garchik: baritone horn; Jim Hobbs: alto saxophone; Ingrid Laubrock: soprano saxophone; Nicole Mitchell: flute; Oscar Noriega: alto saxophone; Dan Peck: tuba; Reut Regev: trombone; Stephanie Richards: trumpet; Katie Scheele: english horn; Josh Sinton, bass clarinet; Libby Van Cleve, oboe

Friday, April 11, 8pm

Nate Wooley’s Battle Pieces
Featuring Nate Wooley: trumpet; Ingrid Laubrock: saxophones; Sylvie Courvoisier: piano; Matt Moran: vibraphone

Anthony Braxton’ Composition 146, “Moogie and Stetson” for 12 flutes, 2 tubas, and percussion
Featuring Taylor Ho Bynum: conductor; Jamie Baum, Domenica Fossati, Michel Gentile, Adrianne Greenbaum, Margaret Lancaster, Erin Lesser, Aleksandra Miglowiec, Leah Paul, Helene Rosenblatt, Peter Standaart, Heather Stegmaier, Sarah Bouchard Stockton: flute; Joseph Daley, Jay Rozen: tuba; Chris Dingman: percussion

Saturday, April 12, 1PM 

Roulette Kids! presents: Taylor Ho Bynum

Taylor Ho Bynum leads a workshop using Anthony Braxton’s principles of Language Music to introduce young people to ideas of group improvisation and composition—using sound as a “lego set” to create structures for play. All ages welcome, with special guests from the upcoming production of Braxton’s opera Trillium J (The Non-Unconfessionables).

Saturday, April 12, 8PM

Fay Victor’s Neighborhood Dynamics
Featuring Fay Victor: vocals; Nicole Mitchell: flute; Vincent Chancey: french horn; Anders Nilsson: guitar; Ken Filiano: double bass

Anthony Braxton’s Falling River Music Nonet
Featuring Anthony Braxton: saxophones; James Fei: saxophones; Ingrid Laubrock: saxophones; Jasmine Lovell-Smith: saxophones: Mary Halvorson, Brandon Seabrook: guitar; Tomeka Reid: cello; Nate Wooley: trumpet; Taylor Ho Bynum: cornet

7.  Pancakes & Booze Art Show

Date: Thursday, April 10 , 2014
Time: 7:00pm – 2:00am
Venue: M1-5 Lounge (52 Walker St, New York, NY 10013)
Ticket: $5
Genre: painting and music

Pancakes & Booze Art Show is an artist movement that has swept the nation as the country’s largest pop-up exhibit of emerging artists! #pancakesandbooze twitter: pancakesbooze http://www.pancakesandbooze.com

– OVER 100 EMERGING ARTISTS EXHIBITING
– LIVE BODY PAINTING
– ALL-U-CAN-EAT PANCAKE BAR
– LIVE ART BATTLE
– LIVE PERFORMANCES PRESENTED by Effective Immediately PR!!!

8:15 – 8:45 – LUKE ELLIOTT – www.facebook.com/lukeelliotmusic
9 – 9:30 – MARCO ARGIRO – www.facebook.com/MarcoWithLove
9:45 – 10:25 – SLIM WRAY – www.facebook.com/slimwrayband
10:40 – 11:20 – COLD BLOOD CLUB – www.coldbloodclub.com
11:35 – 12:15 – The BUSHWICK HOTEL – www.facebook.com/thebushwickhotel

DJ Sets by Cold Blood Club after the live show!!!

 8. Cheryl Pyle Trio

Date: Thursday, April 10 , 2014
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

CHERYL PYLE-FLUTE
ROBERTA PIKET-PIANO
NEWMAN TAYLOR BAKER -WASHBOARD-PERCUSSION
+ live art with Anthony Cerretan

The versatile flutist Cheryl Pyle received her BA in music from the University of California at Berkeley in 1976, having received her Associates Degree from Mesa College in 1974.

She has recorded on Contemporary and Chesky Records with Tom Harrell, Joe Lovano, Danilo Perez, Charlie Haden and Paul Motion. Her lyrics have been recorded on Atlantic, Justin Time, Muse and Concord Records. Since recording her first quartet cd in 1997-DALLE ALLE on the 11th street music label, the jazz group has been playing many jazz clubs and concerts.

Since moving to New York in the fall of 1980, Ms. Pyle has been heard in a variety of settings. She has appeared at such jazz clubs as the Blue Note, Seventh Avenue South, Angry Squire, Kave Haz, the Garage, Cornelia Street Café, CBGB’s Art Gallery, St. Peter’s Church, Amazonas, Fat Baby’s, Abc No Rio, Culturefix, Bar on A and Birdland.

9. 9 Volt & Lucas Ligeti

Date: Thursday, April 10 , 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: Spectrum (121 Ludlow, Second Floor, New York, NY, 650-400-5100)
Ticket: $15
Genre:

9 Volt, with cutting edge guitarist Eyal Maoz, and sleek electro-trombonist Rick Parker of 9 Volt they bring an unusual offering of compositions that synthesize rock, jazz, and electronica. Joining them, transcending the boundaries of genre, is the the Austrian, New-York-City-based composer-percussionist Lukas Ligeti, who has developed a musical style of his own that draws upon downtown New York experimentalism, contemporary classical music, as well as world music, particularly from Africa.

http://9voltmusic.com/
http://www.lukasligeti.com/

10. The Nevermind Orchestra w. Earth to Eugene and MAD JUANA!

Date: Friday, April 11, 2014
Time:  7:30pm – 11:30pm
Venue: The Bowery Electric (327 Bowery, New York, NY 10003)
Ticket: $10
Genre: indie rock/brass

The Nevermind Orchestra, which is the first band of this event, uses the raw power of a New Orleans-style brass band to reinterpret the raw power of Nirvana. You will hear Nirvana in a way you’ve never heard before, and we guarantee you it will excite you just as much as Kurt, Dave, and Krist did back in the day.

Earth to Eugene (Psychadelic Dance Rock) and  Mad Juana (Gypsy Punk (Gypsy Punk)

11. Carte Blanche & Avalon Jazz Band

Date: Friday, April 11, 2014
Time: 11pm
Venue: Drom (85 Avenue A, NY, NY 10009, 212- 777-1157)
Ticket: $10
Genre: Gypsy jazz/jazz/chanson

6-piece jazz ensemble Carte Blanche keeps vintage standards white-hot with classic French, Latin and American jazz standards from the 1920s, 30s and 40s.

Carte Blanche has become a familiar late-night act. The 6-piece ensemble in white silk and sequins has gathered a following who love them for their look as much as their commitment to preserving the standards of a bygone era. Lead vocalist Cristina Kaminis gives the group a sound in the tradition of jazz greats Edith Piaf, Ella Fitzgerald, and Lola Beltran. But as effortlessly as Kaminis transitions from classics of chanson realiste-era Paris to Brazil’s sultry bossa novas, her native Mexico shines through on the bands Cuban son tracks, and the danceable, percussion-driven dance rhythms of vintage Colombian cumbia.

Another CB concert: Saturday, April 12, 2014 @ Rockwood Music Hall – Stage 2
(196 Allen St  New York, NY 10002), 12:30am (Saturday night) – No Cover

The music of Avalon Jazz Band brings you back to the Parisian «zazou» era of the 1930′s and 1940′s, which emblematic sound was made popular by Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli. They perform the American standards popular in France at that period, but also the songs of French composers influenced by that new sound called « jazz » : it’s a bridge between the old world and the new, between French charm and American glam, always with a big great dose of swing. With the melodious voice of Tatiana Eva-Marie and the Gypsy jazz sound of violin and guitar, all the ingredients are gathered to keep you hot and swinging all night…

12. Red Baraat w. Falu and Ushka

Date: Friday, April 11, 2014
Time: 7pm
Venue: Highline Ballroom (431 W 16th St, New York, NY 10011, 212-414-5994)
Ticket: $22 – $39.50
Genre: North Indian bhangra rhythms with elements of jazz, go-go, brass funk, and hip-hop

Formed in 2008, Red Baraat is a pioneering eight-piece band from Brooklyn, New York. Conceived by Sunny Jain, the group has drawn worldwide praise for its singular sound — a merging of hard driving North Indian bhangra rhythms with elements of jazz, go-go, brass funk, and hip-hop. Created with no less a purposeful agenda than manifesting joy and unity in all people, Red Baraat’s spirit is worn brightly on its sweaty and hard-worked sleeve. And is being returned to them in cities all over the world, as word spreads of the band’s incredibly powerful live performances. – See more at: http://highlineballroom.com/show/2014/04/11/red-baraat/#sthash.UqI1JF0s.dpuf

13. Free Of Fear CD Release Party w. Friends

Date: Saturday, April 12, 2014
Time: 8pm to 2am
Venue: Shangri-La Studio (100 Sutton Street, Brooklyn, New York 11222)
Ticket: $15
Genre: electro post rock

Free Of Fear, a New York City based electro post rock duo. The two brothers, Jack Rubin and Lennon Rubin, encourage their listeners to become aware of and work towards overcoming the fears and anxieties that hold us back from living the lives we want to be living. They are releasing their first album, See You On The Otherside, on April 12th.

https://soundcloud.com/free-of-fear/breaking-through

The completed album will be performed live in it’s entirety and there will be many special guest performers and artists creating and presenting their own explorations of the overcoming of fear.

Performances By:
Free Of Fear
DJ 2MELO
Aerialist Extraordinaire: Lorna Laurentino
Vida Landron
Lizzie Shapiro aka Rainbowfish
Sierra Carrère aka Amazon Queen
Dane Schneider
Jamie Neumann and Nova Zef
Jeri Silverman
Kristin Rocco

Art By
Noelia Fernandez
Greg Poole
Marty Poole
Jennifer Savoie

14. Orquesta Aragón

Date: Sunday, April 13, 2014
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Pace University’s Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts (3 Spruce Street New York, NY 10038, 212-346-1715)
Tickets: $35
Genre: danzón, son, cha-cha-chá, rumba/Cuban music

Curated by LiveSounds.org

One of Cuba’s grandest and enduring, charanga bands, Orquesta Aragón, the “Duke Ellington and Count Basie Orchestra of Cuban music” is a national treasure on the island and have performed worldwide for over 60 years. Orquesta Aragón has been a cornerstone of Cuban culture for seven decades, playing danzón, son, cha-cha-chá, rumba and their own styles. Their Afro-Latin innovations shaped the evolution of Cuban music for decades and they have been credited for inspiring New York’s mambo scene in the 50s, making an indelible mark on African music in the 70s, and influencing a who’s who of NY’s Latin music icons like Fania All-Stars’ Johnny Pacheco and Mambo King Tito Puente. Since 1939 Aragón has kept its focus, spreading irresistible Cuban rhythms around the world.