The Soul-Jazz Organ Trio featuring Jeremy Baum on organ, Andy Stack on guitar and Lee Falco on drums

3. Nadav Lev

Date: Monday, June 30, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: The Theater at the 14th Street Y (344 E 14th Street, New York, NY 10003)
Tickets: $15
Genre: classical and electric guitar music

Nadav Lev, classical and electric guitar with:
Mivos String Quartet
Re’ut Ben-Ze’ev, mezzo soprano
Tehila Nini-Goldstein, soprano
Guy Barash, composer & sound artist

Featuring video by multi-disciplinary artists Omer&Tal Golan

Music by:
Yair Klartag, Guy Barash, Gilad Cohen, Ronnie Reshef, Yonatan Cna’an and Nadav Lev

Description:

Multi-faceted guitar virtuoso and a 2013/14 LABA fellow Nadav Lev brings forth a diverse selection of pieces for guitar and various ensembles, all written for him by some of the most prominent young composers to emerge from Israel.
The program includes Shomeret Layla, Lev’s new original piece recently composed as part of his 2013-14 LABA fellowship at the 14 St Y, as well as the world premier of Yair Klartag’s “Nothing From Which To Express” for electric guitar and string quartet. Other highlights include Guy Barash’s TalkBack III for guitar and electronics, Ronnie Reshef’s Bialik Children Songs, Gilad Cohen’s Rushing Camel and Jonatan Cna’an’s Hours of Fun.
Nadav will be joined by a spectacular group of collaborators, including the Mivos String Qaurtet, singers Re’ut Ben-Ze’ev and Tehila Nini-Goldstein, sound artist-composer Guy Barash and new media interdisciplinary artists Omer&Tal Golan.

Program to Include:

Nadav Lev / Shomeret Layla, for electric guitar, female vocalist and live electronics

Yair Klartag / “Nothing From Which To Express”, for electric guitar and string quartet

Guy Barash / TalkBack III, for classical guitar and live electronics

Ronnie Reshef / Bialik Children Songs, for guitar and mezzo soprano

Gilad Cohen / The Rushing Camel, for classical guitar
Yonatan Cna’an / Hour of Fun, for electric guitar

4. Lauren Lee “Space Jazz” Trio

Date: Monday, June 30, 2014
Time: 9:30pm
Venue: The Metropolitan Room (34 West 22nd St. New York New York 10010, 212-206-0440)
Ticket: $ 10
Genre: jazz

With influences ranging from bebop and free jazz to glam rock and romanticism, Lauren Lee‘s “Space Jazz” Trio takes you on a whirlwind, abbreviated tour through music history with a very modern, sophisticated, and exciting flavor palate sure to please even the most discerning music lover. Featuring Charley Sabatino on bass and Andy O’Neill on drums.

5. Jenny Scheinman w/ Bill Frisell and Brian Blade

Date: Monday, June 30, 2014
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012, ph: 212- 505-3474)
Ticket: $25
Genre: jazz

Jenny Scheinman is a singer, violin player, composer and arranger. She grew up on a homestead in Northern California in a family of folk musicians, studied at Oberlin Conservatory, graduated with a degree in English literature from UC Berklee, and has been performing since she was a teenager. She has taken the #1 Rising Star Violinist title in the Downbeat Magazine Critics Poll and has been listed as one of their Top Ten Overall Violinists for a decade. She has garnered numerous high-profile arranging credits with Lucinda Williams, Bono, Lou Reed, Metallica and Sean Lennon, and has toured and recorded with Bill Frisell, Bruce Cockburn, Norah Jones, Madeleine Peyroux, Nels Cline, Vinicius Cantuaria, Rodney Crowell, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Mark Ribot. She has seven CDs of original music to date; Mischief & Mayhem, Jenny Scheinman, Crossing The Field, 12 Songs, Shalagaster, The Rabbi’s Lover and Live At Yoshi’s. www.jennyscheinman.com

6. Landlady

Date: Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Time: 7pm
Venue: Rough Trade (64 N 9th St, Brooklyn, New York 11249)
Ticket: free
Genre: nu jazz

THIS IS A ROUGH TRADE NYC IN-STORE: LANDLADY. NO WRISTBAND REQUIRED.

Landlady’s 7pm performance at Rough Trade Brooklyn on July 1 launches the store’s exclusive early release of Album of the Month Upright Behavior and will reveal the record in a whole new way: the powerful Brooklyn-based five-piece will be augmented by twelve drummers, ten horns, and three additional singers. Join Landlady for a whole new kind of listening party.

“Their music is tuneful and wry and melodic and ambitious and seems to be gesturing towards rafters that only they see.” – Pitchfork

7. Dr. Bashi Multilingual Block Launch Party w. Abjeez music

Date: Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Time: 7pm
Venue: Book Culture (536 West 112th Street, New York, NY 10025)
Ticket: free
Genre: music and toy release

Through play and with the help of Dr. Bashi™, wood blocks, children can begin to memorize the Arabic or Persian letters, vowels and numbers, geometric shapes, math symbols, gender-neutral sight-words, the four seasons, and weather types, all the while advancing their motor-skills by stacking and building with the blocks. Block sets are available through Book Culture for a discount! $59.99 for the Arabic and $69.99 for the Persian.

The renowned Iranian-Swedish Safavi sisters, founders of one of the world’s most celebrated Persian-speaking music bands ABJEEZ, will perform a few of their hit songs on acoustic guitar!

8. FUGU & Downtown Avengers

Date: Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Time: 7pm
Venue: ShapeShifter Lab (18 Whitwell Pl, between Carroll St & 1st St, Brooklyn, NY 11215, 646-820-9452)
Ticket: t.b.a.
Genre: modern music/improv

FUGU a violin-theremin duo from Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia): theremin – Ng Chor Guan and violin – Fung Chern Hwei

These two men, NG Chor Guan and Fung Chern Hwei, grew up and live under a society that presents very narrow artistic freedom to its people — mainly due to religious regulations — have come together and finding their own way to express themselves freely, within all the rules and laws that forbids them to do so. With a wailing theremin and a screeching violin, together with electronic noises, they have discovered a powerful screaming voice that protests their oppressors. Finding one’s sound is liberating; but finding one’s sound when a society does not encourage it, IS LIBERATION.”

The Downtown Avengers:

Fung Chern Hwei – violin
Paolo Marchettini – clarinet
Yukari Watanabe – flute
Sarah Manning – alto saxophone
Ng Chor Guan – theremin
Sayun Chang – percussion

9. The What A Bunch Septet

Date: Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Time: 8:15pm
Venue: Spectrum (121 Ludlow, Second Floor, New York, NY, 650-400-5100)
Ticket: $15
Genre: jazz/modern music

Michael Lytle – Bass Clarinet
Tomas Ulrich – Cello
Andrew Drury – Drums and Percussion
Ken Filiano – acoustic bass
Hans Tammen – acoustic guitar
Shoko Nagai – Piano

The July 2nd concert will feature the What A Bunch Septet with the irascible Tomas Ulrich on cello, the “lookout below” Andrew Drury, again drumming, electronic & 3rd Eye wizard (I don’t believe he’s actually playing on) acoustic guitar, Hans Tammen, the wonderfully sensitive (and What A Bunch taming) Shoko Nagai on piano, the wildly original acoustic bass sawman, Ken Filiano, as well as the Elewhale, Michael Lytle on Bass Clarinet.

10. NOW VS. NOW and New York Gypsy All-Stars

Date: Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Time: 10pm & 11:15pm
Venue: Rockwood Music Hall (196 Allen St, New York, New York 10002)
Ticket: free
Genre: progressive jazz/Gypsy music

10pm – Now Vs Now is a progressive-electro-jazz-rock trio headed by Jason Lindner (keyboards) & featuring Panagiotis Andreou (bass) & Mark Guiliana (drums).

11:15pm – New York Gypsy All-Stars

New York Gypsy All-Stars jump the turnstiles of Balkanalia, Turkish Roots, and Gypsy Soul with funky refinement

Ismail Lumanovski / Clarinet
Tamer Pinarbasi / Kanun
Panagiotis Andreou / Bass
Jason Lindner/ Keys
Engin Kaan Gunaydin / Drums

11.  Film Screening & Discussion: Alwan & 3rd i NY Present: DOCUNIGHT: Back Vocal & other film

Date: Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Time: 8pm
Location: Alwan for the Arts (16 Beaver Street, 4 FL, New York)
Ticket: $10
Genre: music docu film of contemporary Iranian singers

Back Vocal Directed by Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Iran, 2004, 40 min, Farsi/English Subtitles

Capture the struggles of contemporary Iranian singers and musicians working to be heard in their own country. Back Vocal explores Iran’s prohibition, since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, of female solo singers. Mirtahmasb says: “Three years of roaming among musicians of Tehran resulted in two films centered on the theme of restrictions on music in Iran. Back Vocal tells the story of women singers whose unaccompanied singing is forbidden by religious laws of the country, but who nonetheless try to remain active, even if that means taking the second seat. I knew from the beginning that such a film would not get permission to be screened, so I never applied for a permit.”

12. The JAMIE BAUM SEPTET + & LENI STERN AFRICAN TRIO

Date: Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: SubCulture  (45 Bleecker Street, downstairs, New York, NY 11012)
Tickets: $20
Genre:  jazz/world music

“New York flutist, Ms. Baum has been recording with expanded small bands since the late ’90s; she’s into tone color and timbre and the blending of languages, jazz, and 20th-century classical and Afro-Latin music. But she’s got an elegantly persuasive composing hand…” – Ben Ratliff, THE NEW YORK TIMES

“Stern doesn’t collaborate with the West Africans so much as commune with them, she never sounds out of her element, even when her pop and jazz sensibilities are most apparent.” – THE WASHINGTON POST

13. Extreme Thursdays: Matt Luczak/Jonas Bers/Andrew Morelli + Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut

Date: Thursday, July 3, 2014
Time: 8:30pm
Venue: Quinn’s (330 Main Street, Beacon, New York 12508)
Tickets: donation
Genre: jazz/improv

For the next concert in the Extreme Thursdays series @ Quinn’s, we present the trio of local drummer Matt Luczak, joined by analog electronic artists Jonas Bers and Andrew Morelli. Opening will be the duo of multimedia artist/guitarist Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut and drummer Luczak.

Matt Luczak – drums
Jonas Bers – electronics, analog video projection
Andrew Morelli – modular synth
Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut – guitar

In a novel approach to free improvisation, innovative modular synth designer Andrew Morelli (owner of synth manufacturer Steady State Fate) and video artist/noise musician Jonas Bers, of drone duo hARBOUR, co-pilot a tangle of interconnected electronics and circuit-bent video equipment, synthesizing sounds and projected images triggered by Matt Luczak’s (JazzFakers) chaotic and artful drumming. “Joyous, overstimulating pandemonium” is how the artists describe their sound — match them on July 3rd.