1. Kinan Azmeh
Date: Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Joe’s Pub (425 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10003, 212-967-7555)
Tickets: $20
Genre: between Jazz, classical music, and the music of his homeland, Syria
Syrian clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh is the first Arab to win the first prize at the Nicolay Rubinstein international competition in Moscow 1997. A graduate of the Juilliard School in New York, the High Institute of Music and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Damascus. He is currently working towards his music doctoral degree at the City University of New York.
Kinan has appeared as soloist, composer and improviser worldwide including The Library of Congress, The Kennedy Center, Opera Bastille, Berlin’s Philharmonie, The Mozarteum, Carnegie Hall, UN’s General Assembly and the Damascus Opera for its opening concert. He has shared the stage and recorded with artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Daniel Barenboim, Marcel Khalife, Aynur and Zakir Hussein.
Formed in 2006 in New York City, Kinan Azmeh & and his New York Quartet immediately gained recognition for their virtuosic and high energy performance, receiving praise from critics and audiences alike.
With this New York ensemble, Azmeh strives to reach a balance between Jazz, classical music, and the music of his homeland, Syria. Azmeh’s expressive clarinet meets Kyle Sanna’s rustic guitar, soaring at times over the dynamic and volatile backdrop of John Hadfield’s percussion and Josh Myers’ double bass. The new album Elastic City was launched in a European and Middle-eastern tour in the summer of 2012.
2. Angelica Sanchez
Date: Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Time: 8pm
Venue: Barbes (376 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY)
Ticket: $10
Genre: nu jazz/improv
THE PALIMPSESTIC SERIES, CURATED BY OSCAR NORIEGA. Every Wednesday.
ANGELICA SANCHEZ., piano, Omar Tamez, electric guitar and Ratzo Harris, bass.
In her piano playing as well as her compositions Angelica Sanchez seeks out the lyrical heartbeat within any avant-garde storm.
– The New York Times/Chinen
3. Felix Pastorius
Date: Thursday, September 5, 2013
Time: 10pm
Venue: The 55 Bar (55 Christopher St., (Sixth/Seventh Avenue), New York, ( 212 ) 929-9883)
Ticket: $10
Genre: fusion jazz
Making music comes natural to 28 year old Felix Pastorius. A family tradition, his grandfather John Francis Pastorius II, affectionately referred to as “Jack”, was a stand-up jazz drummer, that would sing while he would swing. Following in his footsteps one of Jack’s three sons, Felix’s dad, John Francis Pastorius III, took up the drums and later switched to bass. He was affectionately referred to as “Jaco”.
Spending most his life living in Florida, he was always surrounded by a house full of instruments. While studying them all, he landed on the bass, or maybe it landed on him. He’s earned his place, learned to navigate, and here to take you for a ride. He is affectionately referred to as “Felix”.
Chris Ward…Saxophone
John Bendy…Guitar
Felix Pastorius…Bass
Devin Collins…Drums
4. Source
Date: Friday, September 6, 2013
Times: 9:30, 11pm and 12:30am
Venue: Zinc Bar (82 West 3rd Street (between Thompson and Sullivan Streets)
Ticket: $10
Genre: West African roots and pop music/Afro Beat
In September 2003 we cracked a tough nut and Source got a gig at the legendary Zinc Bar! …and what a gig: once a month for 10 years! Every musician in New York wants that gig and we got it.
Why? One may inquire…. Magic!… and depth: We shave Malian griotAbdoulaye Diabate who has rightly been proclaimed “best African singer in America”; we have the one-and-only Fula flute Master Bailo Bah who can paralyze you with a flute-scream; we have everybody’s favorite bass player the great Mamadou Ba; we have the delightful, inspired Emi Yabuno on piano and keys; we have the electrifying Songhai guitarist Abdoulaye Alhassanewho hails from the Sahara desert; we have veteran drummer Sean Dixonlaying it down the way it spozed-2-b; we have musicians who want to be there, the best in the business who enjoy African grooves with improvisations soaring to
5. Akshara
Date: Friday, September 6, 2013
Time: 7pm
Venue: The Bitter End (147 Bleecker St, New York, New York 10012-1437)
Ticket: donation sliding scale of $5-15
Genre: Indian classical and folk music
About this band here: Concert Review: Akshara – has proven themselves to be master musicians, whose work is exemplary of beauty and sublimity.
6. Mohammed Fairouz and Friends w/ Kathleen Supove , Voxare String Quartet , Taka Kigawa, David Krakauer, Adrian Daurov, Daniel Roumain, Du Yun, Amelia Watkins, and many more
Date: Friday, September 6, 2013
Time: 8pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012, ph: 212- 505-3474)
Ticket: $22
Genre: nu classical music
Mohammed Fairouz, one of New York’s brightest rising stars, curates an evening of chamber and vocal music by a diverse group of his colleagues bringing together some of city’s most notable and well-loved performers with some of the most distinctive musical voices of the young generation.
From re-imaginings of Middle Eastern folklore and ancient Chinese fragments to remixes of Disney classics and a new anthem for a forgotten Haitian Island, THE NAMED ANGELS is a rich evening of new works spanning cultures and centuries from a vibrant collection of composers.
Clarinetist David Krakauer performs Mohammed Fairouz’s tender and dark Tahwidah joined by soprano Amelia Watkins. This work was Fairouz’s first reaction to the death of the eminent poet Mahmoud Darwish and sets one of Darwish’s poems that evokes a mother singing a lullaby to her son at his funeral.
Kathleen Supove will play a selection of Fairouz’s piano miniatures including Lullaby for a Chelsea Boy,Liberace and Bargemusic. She’ll also present Matt Marks’ wittily tongue-in-cheek Disney Remixes. These cleverly-spun pieces recall scenes from Disney Movies: The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin. Another of New York’s most loved pianists, Taka Kigawa , will join the iconic Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) in a performance of Simone and Navassa’s National Anthem. The composer himself will perform the violin part.
Cellist Adrian Daurov performs Du Yun’s San, a deconstruction of haunting ancient Chinese fragments.
The amazing Voxare String Quartet closes the show with Mohammed Fairouz’s string quartet, The Named Angels; a work that invokes the mythology of angels in Middle Eastern Jewish, Christian and Muslim folklore.
PROGRAM:
Mohammed Fairouz
Tahwidah (2008)
(text in Arabic by Mahmoud Darwish)
David Krakauer, Amelia Watkins
Mohammed Fairouz
Miniatures (2008-12)
Kathleen Supove
Daniel Bernard Roumain
Navassa (2007)
Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR), Taka Kigawa
Daniel Bernard Roumain
Simone (2007)
Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR), Taka Kigawa
Matt Marks
Disney Remixes (2008)
Kathleen Supove
Du Yun
San (2009)
Adrian Daurov, Cello
Mohammed Fairouz
The Named Angels (2012)
Voxare String Quartet
7. Jorge Luis Pacheco Exclusive NYC Shows
Time: 6pm and 8.30pm
Venue: Drom (85 Avenue A, NY, NY 10009, Ph: 212- 777-1157)
Ticket: $10
Genre: jazz/latin
Celebrate great music with gorgeous Latin Jazz music by Jorge Luis Pacheco, hailed by Wynton Marsalis who said “This young musician has a very bright future.” Dicover Cuba’s hottest up and coming young Jazz piano player. He was the only pianist to be invited to perform with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra on their closing night at Havana’s Teatro Mella. His current CD is being produced by multi grammy winner Chucho Valdes and they are also co-recording one of the tracks. His touring credits include tours with many major artists throughout Europe, Mexico, South America, and the Caribbean. This will be his US debut! Catch a rare glimpse of Cuba’s cutting edge talent with some beautiful Latin Jazz.For more info please check this link http://www.pachecopiano.com/JLP/Biography.html
8. Mohsen Namjoo
Date: Saturday, September 7, 2013
Time: 8pm – 10pm
Venue: Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, New York)
Ticket: $35
Genre: Iranian indie folk rock music
Mohsen Namjoo is a songwriter, singer, music scholar and setar player (traditional Persian lute). Born in 1976 in Torbat-e Jam, Iran, Namjoo began his musical training at the age of twelve, and studied Persian vocal technique with many great masters. He discovered the music of rock and blues in his late teens which had a huge effect on him. His musical style weaves a mosaic, mixing Persian music and poetry western rock, blues, and jazz to create something that is uniquely his own. Mohsen Namjoo is a true musical maverick, seamlessly blending the classical with the modern, the ancient with the contemporary.
Can’t make it to this program? Tune in to AsiaSociety.org/Live at 8:00 pm ET for a free live video webcast.
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Video: Mohsen Namjoo’s hit song “Toranj”
9. Goapele
Date: Sunday, September 8, 2013
Time: 8pm
Venue: S.O.B.’s (204 Varick St., New York, NY 10014)
Ticket: $25
Genre: neo soul and more
On Sunday, September 8, the sensuous R&B singer-songwriter, Goapele, returns to the stage at SOB’s after nearly two years!
Deemed the “spiritual love child of Sade and D’Angelo” by RollingStone Magazine, Goapele broke out of Bay Area at the beginning of the last decade determined to make a difference in the world of music. Seamlessly fusing jazz, soul and hip hop with her own beautiful poetry, Goapele refuses to be limited by the “neo-soul” tag.
10. Oran Etkin’s Timbalooloo
Date: Sunday, September 8, 2013
Time: 11am
Venue: ShapeShifter Lab (18 Whitwell Pl, between Carroll St & 1st St, Brooklyn, NY 11215, 646-820-9452)
Ticket: $10
Genre: kids music & music education
Oran Ektin has been described as a “great clarinet player” and “an excellent improviser” by the New York Times music critic Ben Ratliff and a “composer of eminent individuality” by his mentor and teacher, the legendary Yusef Lateef. Etkin’s music has been recognized with a GRAMMY Award (for the compilation All About Bullies which includes 2 of Oran’s tracks) and two Independent Music Awards (“Best World Beat Album” for Kelenia and “Best Children’s Album” for Wake Up, Clarinet). He has performed around the world with musicians ranging from guitarist Mike Stern and pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba to rapper Wyclef Jean. Through years of experience in a myriad of musical cultures, Etkin has developed a unique sound on the clarinet, bass-clarinet and saxophone that draws on ancient traditions from Africa, Israel, New Orleans and beyond, yet resonates with the driving energy of the current New York jazz scene.
Etkin is also the creator of the Timbalooloo method of teaching music to young children that has gained popularity in New York, LA and Paris and has been endorsed by Harvey Keitel, Naomi Watts, Liev Schreiber, Edie Falco and Ken Burns,- all of whom have enrolled their children in Oran Etkin’s Timbalooloo Music Classes. His award winning children’s CD Wake Up, Clarinet! and the live performances for families literally bring the instruments to life as they become characters in the story of a sleepy clarinet named Clara Net and her mother, Big Mama Tuba.
CD review: Oran Etkin “Wake Up Clarinet”
