1. Chicha Libre
Date: Monday, August 8, 2011
Time: 9;30pm
Venue: Barbes (376 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY)
Ticket: $10
Genre: a mixture of latin rhythms, surf music and psychedelic pop
Chicha Libre plays a mixture of latin rhythms, surf music and psychedelic pop inspired by 1970′s Peruvian music from the Amazon. The Brooklyn-based band mixes up covers of forgotten Chicha classics with French-tinged originals, re-interpretation of 70’s pop classics as well as cumbia versions of pieces by Satie and Ravel. With Greg Burrows – percussion; Joshua Camp – Hohner Electravox; Olivier Conan – Cuatro & Vocals – Nicholas Cudahy – bass; Vincent Douglas – Guitar – Neil Ochoa – percussio
2. Eric Harland+Marcus Strickland
Date: Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Time: 8pm
Venue: 92YTribeca (200 Hudson Street, New York City)
Ticket: $15
Genre: Jazz
Eric Du’sean Harland, composer and drummer, is a native of Houston, Texas who was discovered by Wynton Marsalis during a workshop in high school. Since then, Eric has gone on to record and perform with countless jazz greats including McCoy Tyner, Terence Blanchard, Kenny Garrett, Ravi Coltrane, the late, great Betty Carter, Joe Henderson, Charles Lloyd, Joshua Redman, Wynton Marsalis and John Patitucci to name a few. In Down Beat‘s, 65th Annual Readers Poll, Eric made it on the short list of world-recognized drummers along with Elvin Jones and Roy Haynes.
Saxophonist Marcus Strickland was named “Rising Star on Tenor Saxophone” inDown Beat magazine’s Critic’s Poll ’10, “Rising Star on Soprano Saxophone” inDown Beat magazine’s Critic’s Poll ’08 and “Best New Artist” in JazzTimesmagazine’s Reader’s Poll ’06. He also placed third in the 2002 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition. He has toured internationally with his own trio/quartet and the bands of Dave Douglas Keystone, Jeff “Tain” Watts and Roy Haynes, making Strickland a household name among the world’s renowned jazz saxophonists. His latest recording, Triumph of the Heavy, Vol. 1 & 2, is expected to be released by summer 2011.
3. Somi
Date: Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Time: 7pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleeker Street, New York, NY, 212.505.3474)
Ticket: $22
Genre: Nu Jazz/World
In August 2011, acclaimed vocalist and songwriter Somi will celebrate the release of her first live album, Live at Jazz Standard (SanaaHouse/Palmetto Records). Recorded over two sold-out nights at the legendary Jazz Standard in New York City, the ten track collection captures the brilliance, intensity, and transcendence of Somi’s live set. Originally from Rwanda and Uganda, Somi’s last album debuted at #2 on the Billboard World Chart and #1 on the iTunes World Chart. A true cosmopolitan, Somi is also a 2011 TED Global Fellow. Live at Jazz Standard draws from a catalogue of music that spans across two acclaimed studio albums as well as covers such as Bob Marley’s “Waiting in Vain” and legendary songwriter and vocalist Abbey Lincoln’s “Should’ve Been.” This concert will be exactly that – a celebration of living. Thus, Somi has not only invited an intimate jazz chamber ensemble to explore new arrangements of her original music, but she has also weave in spoken literary excerpts on living and love.
4. Laurie Anderson w. Friends
Date: Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center (70 Lincoln Center Plaza & W 62nd St., New York, 10023, 212-875-5456)
Ticket: free
Genre: multi media/avant pop
The reigning performance artist of our time, Laurie Anderson has a gift for transforming the mundane into the stuff of mystery and wonder. Maverick digifiddler and composer Todd Reynolds leads a first-time collaboration that stars multi-instrumentalist and circus-music provocateur Sxip Shirey (The Luminescent Orchestrii), human beat-boxer Adam Matta (Carolina Chocolate Drops), and a masterful section of violinists: Caleb Burhans, Conrad Harris,Pauline Kim Harris, Yuki Numata, Courtney Orlando, and Ben Russell.
5. Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quartet
Date: Thursday, August 11, 2011
Time: 8pm & 10pm
Venue: Iridium (1650 Broadway New York, NY 10019, 212-582-2121)
Ticket: $25
Genre: Nu Jazz
Born in Karachi, Pakistan, removed at the age of four to the vastness of Southern California, schooled at the University of Southern California and the Manhattan School of Music in jazz and classical music, as well as a pilgrimage in India under
the tutorial of master percussionist, Ustad Alla Rakha, Rez Abbasi is a vivid synthesis of all the above stated influences and genres.
Making New York home for the past 18 years, Abbasi has developed a unique sound both as a composer and an instrumentalist and is considered by many to be one of the foremost modern jazz guitar players the world over.
Rez Abbasi – guitar
Bill Ware – vibraphone
Eric McPherson – drums
Stephan Crump – bass
6. Mussukeba Sane’s 1st Annual African Dance Concert
Date: Saturday, August 13, 2011
Time: 8:30pm
Venue: Peter Jay Sharp Theatre/Symphony Space (2537 Broadway at 95th Street, New York, NY 10025-6990)
Ticket: $35
Genre: sabar drums and dance
Mussukeba Sane’s 1st Annual African Dance Concert will feature a performance by the father of sabar, world renowned Dou Dou N’Diaye Rose and African dance company Les Enfants du Soleil. An evening of African drumming and dancing.
7. Gauri Guha
Date: Saturday, August 13, 2011
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Chhandayan Center for Indian Music (4 West 43rd Street, Suite 618, New York, NY 10036)
Ticket: $20
Genre: Hindustani Classical Vocal
Gauri Guha is an established and highly acclaimed professional North Indian classical vocalist. She is a senior disciple of Pandit A. Kanan and Mrs. Malabika Kanan. Currently, she is studying music under the guidance of Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty. For the last 35 years, Gauri has performed internationally in many prestigious conferences and concerts. Gauri is an examiner of Akhil Bharatiya Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, Maharashtra, India.
