1. Roberto’s invites you to “Ingrid Jensen and Project O & Simona Premazzi and The Intruders ”
Date: Monday, May 10, 2010
Time: 8pm Ingrid Jensen and Project O featuring Seamus Blake (Ingrid Jensen – Trumpet and Flugelhorn, Seamus Blake – Tenor Saxophone, Gary Versace – Organ and Jon Wikan – Drums) – 10pm Simona Premazzi and The Intruders (Simona Premazzi – Piano, Stacy Dillard – Saxophones, Ryan Berg – Bass, Jason Brown – Drums and Emily Braden – Vocals)
Venue: Rosie O’Grady’s (149 West 46 Street, New York, NY 10036)
Ticket: $10
Genre: Jazz
2. The Crash Ensemble w/ music of Donnacha Dennehy, David Lang, and Terry Riley
Date: Monday, May 10, 2010
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Le Pisson Rouge ( 158 Bleeker St., Ny, NY 10012, Phone: (212) 505-3474)
Ticket: $15
Genre: contemporary, new music
Ireland’s leading new music group, Crash Ensemble, returns to the US, with an exciting program of Irish and American new music with special engagement at Le Poisson Rouge. Featuring soloist Iarla O’Lionaird
Crash Ensemble was founded in 1997 by composer Donnacha Dennehy; conductor and pianist Andrew Synott; and clarinetist Michael Seaver. Since its first sold-out concert in Dublin in the autumn of 1997, the group has attracted enthusiastic audiences for its particular blend of music, video and electronics. The group is interdisciplinary in outlook, and considers its sound engineers, technicians and video makers as much a part of the enterprise as the musicians.
Crash has commissioned or premiered a large amount of works by many composers incuding Peter Adriaansz, Gerald Barry, Gavin Bryars, Raymond Deane, Donnacha Dennehy, Arnold Dreyblatt, Stephen Gardner, Michael Gordon, John Godfrey, Andrew Hamilton, David Lang, Terry Riley, Jurgen Simpson, Gerhard Stabler, Jennifer Walshe, Ian Wilson and Kevin Volans.
3. Massive Attack
Dates: Tuesday & Wednesday, May 11 & 12, 2010
Time: 8pm
Venue: Terminal 5 (610 W 56th St., Between 11th and 12th Avenues, New York, NY 10019)
Ticket: $55
Genre: Club/ trip-hop/soul
The pioneering force behind the rise of trip-hop, Massive Attack were among the most innovative and influential groups of their generation; their hypnotic sound — a darkly sensual and cinematic fusion of hip-hop rhythms, soulful melodies, dub grooves, and choice samples — set the pace for much of the dance music to emerge throughout the 1990s, paving the way for such acclaimed artists as Portishead, Sneaker Pimps, Beth Orton, and Tricky, himself a Massive Attack alumnus
4. The Mulato Insurgency – P O E M A S y C A N C I O N E S
Dates: Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Time: 8pm & 10pm
Venue: The Stone (at the corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street. Lower East Side in NY)
Ticket: each show $10
Genre: contemporary
The members are: Roberto Rodriguez (percussion, vocals), Chacho Shartz (bass, vocals), Igor Arias Baro (congas, lead vocals) and Uri Sharlin (piano, organ, vocals).
The Mulato Insugency- Creole, mulato, a notion that is defined by primitive ritual and the improvisational forces that merge in a given place and surface as a syncretic manifestation.
5. World Music Institute presents: The Conga Kings
Date: Saturday, May 15, 2010
Time: 8pm
Venue: Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at NYU (566 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square South, New York)
Tickets: $32, WMI Friends $27, Students $18
Genre: Afro-Cuban music
This dynamic 9-member rumba group features three master congueros of Afro-Cuban music: Candido Camero, the legendary 89-year-old elder statesman of congas who is a living encyclopedia of Cuban music and has worked with all the jazz masters; Giovanni Hidalgo, the current master of congas who melds Afro-Caribbean, jazz and folkloric influences with his signature style; and veteran New York percussionist Papo Pepin, a powerful innovator who has performed with many of the greats in mambo, salsa and Latin jazz. The program is under the direction of four-time Grammy winner Ray Santos and includes guest dancers.
6. Hazmat Modine
Date: Saturday, May 15, 2010
Time: 7pm
Venue: TERRA BLUES (149 Bleecker Street, NYC, Ph: 212-777-7776)
Ticket: t.b.a.
Genre: American roots
One of New York’s most original bands, Hazmat Modine delivers a rustic, deliriously Dionysian blend of whorehouse Blues, Reggae, Klezmer, Country and Gypsy-tinged music. The band features the dueling harmonicas of front-man Wade Schuman and his sparring partner Randy Weinstein, funky tuba powerhouse Joseph Daley, guitarists Michael Gomez and Pete Smith, trumpeter Pam Fleming and drummer Rich Huntley.
7. NERVE Featuring JOJO MAYER (w/ Sonnymoon , Mike Slott , MeLo-X , Sweatshoppe , Shantell Martin and The Ladies of LICK)
Date: Sunday, May 16, 2010
Time: 10pm
Venue: Le Pisson Rouge ( 158 Bleeker St., Ny, NY 10012, Phone: (212) 505-3474)
Ticket: $15
Genre: electronics/experimental/hip hop
NERVE was initiated in the spring of ’98 by drum wizard Jojo Mayer as an experimental platform for a handful of New York musicians interested in the cultural phenomenon of intelligent electronic DJ culture and the opportunity it created as a gateway to new musical paradigms and pioneered the movement of live “electronic” music.
His basic idea was to deconstruct electronic music and reverse engineer the textures and rhythms of digital production within a live performed context. Live drums, bass, keyboards and live interactive sound processing – no loops, sequencers, or pre- production. All sounds and rhythms performed in real time!
