1. Federico Ughi Quartet Date: Monday, November 26, 2012 Time: 9:30pm Venue: Zebulon (258 Wythe Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211) Ticket: free Genre: jazz/improve “Federico Ughi is characteristically splendid, his drums serving as much more than a rhythmic undercurrent…” Steven Loewy, Cadence Magazine Federico Ughi is a drummer and composer based in New York. His music infuses the New York […]
Text by Dawoud Kringle Madison Square Garden, on the cold, rainy night of November 27th, 2012, Thousands filled every inch of the venue, and hundreds more stood outside and in Time Square, gathered around the enormous video screens and speakers that, after months of haggling with Mayor Bloomberg, were permitted to be set up. Major […]
Date: November 10, 2012 Venue: Le Poisson Rouge By Dawoud Kringle On Saturday, November 10, 2012, Le Poisson Rouge played host to the 9th Annual Encuentro NYC Colombian Music Festival. The festival, produced by Pablo and Anna Mayor, was brilliantly conceived, and efficiently executed. The musical acts covered an astonishing spectrum of different styles and […]
Date: September 27, 2012 Venue: Paper Box (Brooklyn) Concert review and photo by Dawoud Kringle On an unseasonably warm night in late September, I trekked to one of those desolate areas of Brooklyn where small autonomous zones of artists and musicians are carving out a piece of the world they can call their own. It […]
Date: July 22, 2012 Venue: house concert in the Upper West Side Next show: August 1, at 8pm. Details here. Review by Dawoud Kringle and photos by Marcus Simpson Indian classical music is based essentially on vocal music. It is a widely held belief among the genre’s masters that without an understanding of vocal music, […]
