Text and photos by Jeff Greene Late last year, there was an article on the front page of The NY Times about the planned demolition of large sections of the ancient silk road city, Kashgar, in western China. I decided I should go before it was gone. An Uzbek friend had invited me to his arranged wedding in […]
1. The O’Farrill Family Band w/Arturo O’Farrill, Adam O’Farrill, Zack O’Farrill, Ivan Renta & Shawn Conley Date: Monday, September 6, 2010 Times: 7:30pm & 9:30pm Venue: Dizzy’s Club – Jazz at Lincoln Center (Broadway at 60th Street, 5th Floor New York, New York 10023) Ticket: $20 Genre: Latin Jazz Arturo O’Farrill who is the son of Arturo […]
1.The Stumblebum Brass Band w. ORB MELLON, LOW SOCIETY (featuring Mandy Lemons & Sturgis Nikides) Date: Tuesday, August 31, 2010Time: 8pmVenue: The Bowery Electric (327 Bowery, New York, NY 10003) Get DirectionsTicket: $ t.b.a.Genre: blues, brass The Stumblebums are an incendiary force on the New York City music scene. Even though the band has deep respect and admiration […]
1. Roberto’s invited you to “the Patrizia Scascitelli Sextet & Virginia Mayhew Quartet” Date: Monday, May 3, 2010Time: 8pm Meg Okura and the Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble (Meg Okura on violin, erhu, and vocal, Anne Drummond on flute, Mamiko Kitaura on piano, Gregg August on bass and Alvester Garnett on drums) – 10pm Marcus Strickland Trio (Marcus Strickland on soprano […]
Date: March 18, 2010 Venue: Le Poisson Rouge Text by Jim Hoey It made perfect sense that when I walked into this show, down the stairs at (Le) Poisson Rouge, Mixel Pixel was already on stage in fuzzy animal costumes with guitars and a laptop and a big screen projecting cartoons, and little kids were […]
