1. Afro Roots feat. Mambo Jaambo

Date: Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: 647 Columbus Ave near W 92nd st (Goddard Riverside)
Ticket: $10
Genre: Latin Jazz / Salsa Music

Mambo Jaambo performing electrifying, pulsating Afro/Carribean sound. Featuring the lovely singer Mayaan Shaked accompanied by Baba Donn on congas, Ronnie Roc keys, Richie Robles bass, Daniel Moreno timbales and Mac Gollehon trumpet.

2. Jaimie ‘Breezy’ Branch Trio

Date: Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Time: 9pm
Venue: Quinn’s (330 Main Street, Beacon, New York 12508)
Tickets: donation
Genre: jazz

Jaimie ‘Breezy’ Branch Trio with Brandon Lopez on bass and Mike Pride on dtrums.

Jaimie Branch is a trumpeter working in the areas of composition and improvisation. Since graduating from the New England Conservatory of Music in 2005, she moved to Chicago becoming an active member in the Chicago creative music scene as a performer, presenter, and recording engineer. In 2012, Branch moved to Baltimore to pursue a Masters in Jazz Performance at Towson University. Recently she launched Pionic Records, an all vinyl label which she uses as an avenue to present her music to the universe.

Brandon A. Lopez is a bassist, composer based in NYC. He attended New England Conservatory. He’s shared the stage with many great musicians (Joe Morris, Brandon Seabrook, Tyshawn Sorey, Peter Evans, Ava Mendoza, Tatsuya Nakatani, Nick Millevoi, Ches Smith, Matt Nelson, Amirtha Kidambi, Dave Rudder, Max Jaffe, Mike Wilbur, Arooj Aftab, John Welsh, Dave Scanlon, Chris Pitsiokos and many others), played in venues ranging from famous concert halls to dingy DIY venues (Lincoln Center to Roulette to Silent Barn), performed on North East’s weirdo radio stations (WKCR, NPR, WKDU), has worked as a creative sideman for the strange and not so strange (Celosa, Wilder Maker, Touching, Workman Song, The Superpowers, and many others), and is a leader/collaborator (Vape Drip, Tongues, Birth Rattle, Pitsiokos/Sorey/Lopez).

Mike Pride is a New York City based singer/drummer/composer known for the large number of bands he plays with, and has a significant reputation in the indie music scene. He has played at John Zorn’s club, The Stone, with Jesse Krakow, with whom he has also worked on a number of projects. Time Out NY says of one album featuring him “Pride has backed brainy jazz legend Anthony Braxton as well as political punks Millions of Dead Cops. Those influences and countless others speed by here, but the flow of ideas is so continuous that the album never feels like pastiche.”. After relocating to New York City from his native Maine, he has become involved with many different projects and collaborated with Charlie Looker, Jamie Saft, Jon Irabagon, Moppa Elliott, Joe Morris and Peter Evans, among many others.

3. Os Mutantes

Date: Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Time: 8pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012, Phone: 212- 505-3474)
Ticket: $35
Genre: indie rock

Os Mutantes (“The Mutants”) are an influential Brazilian psychedelic rock band that were linked with the Tropicália movement of the late 1960s.

Although the original line-up (Rita Lee, Arnaldo Baptista and Sérgio Dias; and later with Liminha and Dinho Leme) made the most notorious breakthrough for the group, it has gone through numerous personnel changes throughout its existence. After a hiatus from the late 1970s to the early 2000s, the band reunited in 2006, touring and recording new material.

4. BRM Weekly Sessions: Pt Krishna Bhatt Gurukul

Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Time: 8pm
Venue: Sky Gallery (460 Union St, Brooklyn, New York 11231)
Ticket: $10
Genre: Hindustani vocal music/Indian classical music

Co-presented with Samadhi Arts as part of there month long residency at Sky Gallery. Join us for a traditional style classical vocal performance with Kolkata-based Brajeswar Mukherjee at the Sky Gallery in Brooklyn.

Brajeswar Mukherjee – vocal
Sandip Ghosh – tabla
Gourab Chatterjee – harmonium

Vocal Concert | 8pm
BRM Jam Session | 9:30pm – midnight

Brajeswar Mukherjee is a well known Hindustani Classical Vocal singer from Kolkata, India. A disciple of the eminent vocalist Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty since an early age, Brajeswar has found popularity with lovers of Indian classical music all over the world through his radio programs, live performance and published albums. Brajeswar Mukherjee is a recipient of many awards and honours, including ‘Dhananjay Smriti Puraskar’ from Calcutta University, Shrutinandan Puraskar from Shrutinandan Institute and ‘Gaan Vardhan’ from Pune. Currently a Musician Tutor and Junior Guru at ITC Sangeet Research Academy in Kolkata, Brajeswar is a B-High Grade regular artist of All India Radio, Kolkata.

Accompanying Brajeswar is Sandip Ghosh on tabla. He has studied tabla with Pandit Anindo Chatterjee for the past eighteen years,and played with many globally distinguished artists such as as Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasia, Ustad Shahid Parvez, Ustad Shujaat Khan, Pandit Ajoy Chakrabortty, and many more. Gourab Chatterjee

On Harmonium will be Gourab Chatterjee, who is a scholar of vocal indian music as well.

5. Blake Morgan

Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Time: 7pm – 8pm
Venue: Rockwood Music Hall (196 Allen St, New York, New York 10002)
Ticket: $10
Genre: singer-song writer/indie rock

Blake Morgan | Rockwood Artist-In-Residence Concert Series
PREMIERE! W/ special guests Everything Turned to Color

Native New Yorker Blake Morgan is a recording artist, record producer, and the founder and owner of ECR Music Group, a global music company which operates under an elemental principle unprecedented in the music world: all of its artists and labels own one-hundred percent of their master recordings.

He also started the #IRespectMusic movement which continues to grow at an unprecedented pace (IRespectMusic.org). Music makers, music lovers, music organizations, luminaries like Patrick Stewart, Gavin DeGraw, Gloria Steinem, Aerosmith’s Joe Perry, Jane Fonda, Jean Michele Jarre, Garth Richardson, Marisa Tomei, Roseanne Cash, numerous members of the United States Congress, the NMPA, the RIAA, the US Copyright Office, SoundExchange, and countless others have voiced their support by both signing the petition and posting or tweeting a selfie with the hashtag: #IRespectMusic.

The #IRespectMusic campaign follows his whistle-blowing victory over Internet radio giant Pandora, which led to the multi-billion dollar company abandoning its own signature Congressional legislation proposal which would have reduced artists’ pay by up to 85%.

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6. Louis de Mieulle & Evil Giraffes On Mars

Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Time: 7pm
Venue: ShapeShifter Lab (18 Whitwell Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11215, 646-820-9452)
Ticket: $10
Genre: jazz/fusion

French bassist/composer Louis de Mieulle’s will be performing tracks  from his just released  CD Stars, Plants & Bugs. Featuring Matt Garstka (drums), Casimir Liberski (keyboards) and SharpEye (flute). – Read more at: #sthash.djdAQz0z.dpuf" target="_blank">http://www.louisdemieulle.com/index/#sthash.djdAQz0z.dpuf

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7. FAITH NY

Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Time: 7pm
Venue: The Slipper Room (167 Orchard St, New York, New York 10002)
Ticket: $10
Genre: mixture of reggae, rock and soul

NYC rockers FAITH NY are proud to celebrate the release of their new EP Soul Secrets on World Wide Vibe Records. Faith’s enchanting mixture of reggae, rock and soul is magical, moody and mesmerizing. With readings by Luc Sante, Mimi Lipson and Jennifer Jazz.

https://soundcloud.com/wwv/sets/faith_soulsecrets

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8. GloryBeat: Homage To Harmolodics and Ornette Coleman

Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Time: 8pm
Venue: Quinn’s (330 Main Street, Beacon, New York 12508)
Tickets: donation
Genre: jazz/improv/solo guitar/duet reeds/guitar

GloryBeat performs Vignettes Harmolodique featuring: Ed Lansing on guitar &  Blaise Siwula on reeds.

9. TIMBILA WITH CHARTWELL DUTIRO

Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Time: 8:30pm
Venue: Bar LunAtico (486 Halsey St. Brooklyn 11233)
Ticket: t.b.a.
Genre: mbira music/ecstatic African rock

Chartwell grew up in rural Zimbabwe and started playing the mbira when he was four. The mbira is an ancient instrument, consisting of at least 22 metal keys mounted on a wooden soundboard. Chartwell and his brother would often play mbira all night, calling the ancestral spirits for guidance, as has been done in Zimbabwe over centuries.
As a teenager Chartwell joined the Salvation Army band, and when he moved to the capital he played in a military marching band. From 1986 to 1994 he toured the world with the legendary ‘Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited’ . Since 1994, Chartwell has been based in Britain, performing, recording, teaching, and building bridges through his music.

Timbila blazes ecstatic African rock with an East Village edge. The trance of spirit possession merges with the trance of free-spirited head-bangers. The surreal buzzing beauty of Mozambican xylophone (timbila) and hypnotic dream melodies of Zimbabwean thumb piano (mbira) soar with delerious guitar riffs, violin and sassy celestial vocals in grooves that are deeply funky, fierce and danceable. This band is part of an emerging cadre of young groups making a credible fusion of African music and rock ‘n’ roll. That said, no band in the world sounds like Timbila.

10. Marc Cary’s Weekly “Harlem Sessions”

Date: Thursday, September 17, 2015
Time: 9pm
Venue: Gin Fizz (308 Lenox Avenue (125th Street), New York, NY 10027)
Ticket: $t.b.a.
Genre: jazz/r&b/soul

Marc Cary’s “Harlem Sessions,” which takes place every Thursday night at the New York City speakeasy Gin Fizz, continues to gain ground in the community that the keyboardist-composer-bandleader calls home, and where he’s emerging as a leader committed to the values of the Harlem Renaissance pioneers such as Langston Hughes and Duke Ellington, in the spirit of providing fresh lifeblood to Harlem’s unique and vibrant cultural scene.

Cary began hosting the late night jam session in May, opening it to musicians, poets, rappers, dancers and comedians, and announcing the song menu in advance via social media, to develop an organic and crucial cutting ground for artists. It’s a celebration of local artists, groups and composers who truly brought a melting pot of influences together; take a song like “Harlem River Drive” (by pianist Eddie Palmieri‘s super group), cultivate it, and that typifies what this session is about and how deeply its local roots grow.

Cary’s longtime rhythm section features Rashaan Carter on bass and Sameer Gupta on drums/tabla. Guest artists have been as wide-ranging as poet/performance artist (and five-time winner of “It’s Showtime at the Apollo”) Jessica Care Moore, along with new MC phenom Amani Fela; UK saxophonist Denys Baptiste (Mercury and Mobo prize winner);tap percussionist extraordinaire Omar Edwards, Malian vocalist Awa Sangho; Cuban percussion whiz Joaquin Pozo, the grandson of Dizzy Gillespie associate Chano Pozo, one of the founders of Latin jazz; 1st Annual Duke Ellington Vocal Competition winner Charles Turner, and Mike Casey (both alumni of Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead); Lauryn Hill’s current horn section (Igmar Thomas, Sharif Clayton, James Casey); and Harlem’s own self-described ‘Black Americana’ singer Queen Esther.

11. Amir ElSaffar‘s Two Rivers Ensemble

Date: Thursday, September 17, 2015
Time: 8pm
Venue: Peter Norton/Symphony Space (2537 Broadway and 95th St., NY, 212-864-5400)
Tickets: $20
Genre: jazz & maqam music

14. TriBeCastan – CD Release Party

Date: Friday, September 18, 2015
Time: 8pm
Venue: Drom (85 Avenue A, NY, NY 10009, 212- 777-1157)
Ticket: $17
Genre: Balkan Beat/Gypsy/blues/jazz

Defying boundaries between world, folk, and jazz, the evolving collective of TriBeCastan is an exuberant collaboration by some of New York’s finest jazz and world musicians. Band members have worked with such artists as Ornette Coleman, Patti Smith, Aretha Franklin, John McLaughlin, James Brown, Santana, Sting and Taj Mahal, to name a few – but together, as TriBeCaStan, they take music to completely new zones. TriBeCaStan’s fifth studio album ­­ GODDESS POLKA DOTTESS – serves up a feast of sonic flavors throughout its 14 tracks. Diverse elements of world music abound, with myriad styles and sounds skillfully woven together with great innovation. The band hops gleefully from India to Ethiopia, to Jamaica and Eastern Europe and back to New York with remarkable ease and characteristically sly wit.

Bluegrass meets circus music and exotic desert vibes, and dervish dance meets ska, and such influences as 1920s­style swing, Looney Tunes cartoon music, ‘70s Quincy Jones, and East African dance music are evoked in the band’s eclectic sound. GODDESS POLKA DOTTESS was produced by TriBeCaStan co­founders John Kruth and Jeff Greene, and recorded at Park West Studio in Brooklyn NY.

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15. BANDA DE LOS MUERTOS with Mariachi Flor de Toloache & Special Guests

Date: Friday, September 18, 2015
Time: 7pm
Venue:  Pioneer Works (159 Pioneer Street (between Imlay & Conover streets)
Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York 11231)
Ticket: $15
Genre: Mexican Banda music

Celebrating the release of the Banda’s First Album And Mexican Independence Day.
Sept 18th at Pioneer Works!

Pre order the album: http://tinyurl.com/out4xl5

For the past twenty years, Brooklyn residents Oscar Noriega and Jacob Garchik have kept busy in the jazz and classical world – but a few years back, both Oscar and Jacob came to be obsessed with the brass band music of Sinaloa – the Mexican state now better known for El Chapo than its musical output. Oscar, the son of Mexican immigrants, felt a nostalgic connection to the music of his parents. Jacob, who had no prior knowledge of the music, first heard it on a Mexican jukebox and was isntantely fascinated by the intricate arrangements, the dexterity of the brass players and the astounding virtuosity of its sousaphone players.

Realizing that there was no traditional Banda in Brooklyn, they decided to start their own. They wrote new arrangements, Jacob practiced sousaphone and they enlisted some of their musician friends, most of them players familiar to jazz audiences: Chris Speed, Jim Black, Curtis Hasselbring, Brian Drye, Ben Holmes Justin Mullens as well as French Horn player Rachel Drehmann and singer Mireya Ramos, of Mariachi Flor de Toloache fame.

At Pioneer Works, the ten piece brass band will celebrate its new release with the help of their friends Mariachi Flor de Toloache – whose leader, Mierya Ramos, also happens to sing with La Banda..
And as the date pretty much coincides with Mexican Independence Day (sept 16th), the event will be an all around celebration of Mexico and Mexican culture in the US, complete with mexican food in Pioneer Works’s amazing garden as well as very special guests tba.

16. Michael Veal & Aqua Ife – Afro Beat

Date: Friday, September 18, 2015
Time: 10pm
Venue: The Shrine (2271 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd, NY)
Ticket: donation (not a free concert!)
Genre: Afrobeat-jazz

Aqua Ife is a 12-piece band led by bassist Michael Veal, playing instrumental Afrobeat-jazz inspired by Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and other greats of African music, jazz and funk.

17. 75 DOLLAR BILL

Date: Saturday, September 19, 2015
Time: 6pm
Venue: Barbes (376 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY)
Ticket: $10
Genre: lo-fi world/blues

75 DOLLAR BILL. In Residence Every Saturday in September.
Rick Brown and Che Chen play an idiosyncratic take on Mauritania’s music, using homemade percussion and electric guitar. Their music doesn’t strive to any sort of authenticity, yet conjures up the best of African desert music. It is both beautiful and hypnotic and is equally relevant performed in concert form, in a bar, or in an art gallery. Press has been very generous in its praise of the band, but our favorite is still the Paper of Records’ remark that “Rick Brown’s “equipment looked as if it cost no more than a pretty good sandwich.” NY Times.

Opening set by Meridians

18. COSMIC RAY Presents THE COSMIC BLUES PARTY

Date: Saturday, September 19, 2015
Times: 7pm
Venue: Blue Note (131 West 3rd St., New York, NY 10012, 212-475-8592)
Tickets:  $10
Genre: blues/indie rock

Uninvited Guests is an NYC band crafted from a Craigslist ad seeking to play dirty blues, Michael and David got together as a duo, who quickly created songs and beat them out with a makeshift suitcase drum. Soon afterwards, Ariel and Robert jumped in on bass and drums respectively in order to give the band the full skull-pounding tone it needed. The sound is an orgy of blues, rock, punk, and latin feel thrown in. Audience members are left spellbound and shell-shocked from what the Uninvited Guests bring to the stage. There are no innuendoes with this band, “Blunt rock,” as in a blunt force trauma to your brain, is a phrase used to describe the sound,. The band sounds just as good from the bathroom as it does from the front row.

Cosmic Blues Band is a new band tied to traditional blues with a modern twist and brings an over the top ruckus blues which make folks tap their feet and want to dance. Cosmic Ray can do slow blues with soul and feeling with his rich baritone voice.

Adventures in Bluesland offer a good time mix of blues, soul, and boogie featuring the original songs of native Texan Phil Gammage (lead vocals, guitar, blues harp) as well as a diverse selection of classic covers. It is not your typical “bar blues band”. The musicians of Adventures in Bluesland have performed with some of the world’s finest artists including David Bowie, Carolina Slim, Amy Winehouse, John Cale, poet John Sinclair, and Tommy Ramone. The band is based in New York and perform at numerous venues throughout the United States.

Alan Merrill Band – One very important fact about Alan Merrill: He was the lead singer and songwriter of the first and original 1975 version of “I Love Rock N Roll” with his band, The Arrows. The song has become an enduring international rock anthem, recorded by Joan Jett, Britney Spears, and many others. Joan Jett saw Merrill perform the song on a British television pop show in ’76, while on tour with her band, The Runaways, and she was deeply inspired. Her 1982 version of the song was #1 for 8 weeks in the USA.

Alan Merrill was literally born into the world of music. Named Allan Sachs at birth, his parents, Helen Merrill, and sax/clarinetist Aaron Sachs of Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines Band, are world-renowned musician. – See more at: http://www.bbkingblues.com/bio.php?id=5961#sthash.WSKqH2lN.dpuf

19. Edith Lettner and Friends

Date: Saturday, September 19, 2015
Time: 8pm
Venue: The Firehouse Space (246 Frost St., East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211)
Ticket: $10
Genre: jazz/improv

Edith Lettner’s interests lie primarily in jazz, free improvisation, African music and music from diverse regions in the Middle East. She plays alto and soprano saxophone and duduk, an Armenian woodwind instrument. She very intuitively brings her unique and distinctive style to the cooperation with numerous bands, both during live performances and CD recordings.

8:00 PM – Steve Dalachinsky- poetry, Warren Smith- drums and Edith Lettner- alto & soprano saxophone, duduk

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9:30 PM – Ras Moshe- tenor saxophone, flute, Warren Smith- drums and Edith Lettner- alto & soprano saxophone, duduk

20. Wake the Sun  w.  Half/Brother & Fea (w/ members of Girl in a Coma)

Date: Sunday, September 20, 2015
Time:  8pm
Venue: The Bowery Electric (327 Bowery, New York, NY 10003)
Ticket: $8
Genre: rock/blues