1. Asuka Kakitani Jazz Orchestra Date: Monday, February 11, 2013 Time: 7:15pm Venue: Drom (85 Avenue A, NY, NY 10009, Ph: 212- 777-1157) Ticket: $10 Genre: big band jazz At the forefront of Brooklyn’s burgeoning big band scene, the Japanese-born composer Asuka Kakitani has attracted some of New York’s finest jazz artists with her adventurous, melodically charged charts. […]
Date: February 2, 2013 Location: the Cooper Union Foundation Building Text by Dawoud Kringle On a moderately cold Cooper Union’s Great Hall was packed with everyone who is connected with the NYC jazz and poetry scene to pay tribute to the late master poet Jayne Cortez.
INDELIBLE FESTIVAL IS DEDICATED TO ABBEY LINCOLN WITH A TRIBUTE TO LIVING LEGENDS CECIL TAYLOR AND RUBY DEE Date: Saturday, January 11, 2013 Venue: Highline Ballroom (NY) Review by Dawoud Kringle
Date: January 13, 2013 Venue: Webster Hall (NY) Text by Dawoud Kringle On Sunday,. January 13, 2013, globalFest 2013, a non-profit organization presented a festival of 12 artists within one night at New York City’s famed Webster Hall. This Herculean effort brought an amazing variety of artists from around the world. It was, with the […]
Date: December 19, 2012 Venue: the STONE Review by Dawoud Kringle On a cold night close to Christmas, and close to December 21, bassist/composer/ bandleader Damon Banks appeared at The Stone. Damon Banks is a well known bassist in New York who has worked with Miki Howard, Hassan Hakmoun, Karsh Kale, George Benson, SoSaLa, and […]
