Tag Archives: Joe Lovano

MFM Turns 10! Musicians For Musicians Celebrates its First Decade

Report by Dawoud Kringle

Photos by Kim Schmidt, Clara Aich, and Banning Eyre

On Friday, September 5th, 2025, the Cutting Room in New York City hosted MFM’s 10th Anniversary Celebration.

After a brief and impassioned introduction by Kim Schmidt, the MFM Unity Ensemble (featuring Joe Lovano, Arturo O’Farrill, Ron Wasserman, and Andy Weintraub) opened the show. Lovano and O’Farrill started a lively conversation performing “Giving Thanks.” O’Farrill’s piano work was magnificent, poetic, and unpredictable. Lovano’s saxophone worked its way in and out of the piano with wonderful melodies. This was perhaps the first time O’Farrill and Lovano had ever played together as a duo.

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CELEBRATING a DECADE of MUSIC ADVOCACY: MFM TURNS 10!

MFM – The Birth of a Movement and A Decade of Fighting for Fairness!

By Dawoud Kringle

Back in 2015, as I was reshaping my musical path and publishing my second book, fate introduced me to one of the most extraordinary visionaries I’d ever met: Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi (SoSaLa). Our connection deepened over unforgettable moments (including an impromptu jam session at the legendary jazz man Ornette Coleman’s apartment). But it was Sohrab’s fiery passion for justice that sparked something even bigger.

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Recommended Event: A Tribute to Paul Motian @ Symphony Space (NY)

thumbDate: Friday, March 22, 2013
Time: 7 pm
Venue: Peter Jay Sharp Theatre /Symphony Space (2537 Broadway at 95th Street, New York, NY 10025-6990)
Tickets: $45
Genre: jazz

An all-star cast of jazz greats come together to pay tribute to their colleague, legendary drummer and composer, the late Paul Motian, voted number one in the 2012Downbeat Critics Poll Hall of Fame. One of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century, Motian played with Joe Lovano, Bill Frisell, Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett, Charlie Haden, Paul Bley, and many other bandleaders, including Lee Konitz, Warne Marsh, Mose Allison, Tony Scott, Stan Getz, and Johnny Griffin.

The concert, curated by Bill Frisell and Joe Lovano, features performances by Andrew Cyrille, Ben Monder, Ravi Coltrane, Ben Street, Bill Frisell, Billy Drewes, Jerome Harris, Billy Hart, Chris Cheek, Ed Schuller, Marilyn Crispell, Gary Peacock, Bill McHenry, Greg Osby, Tim Berne, Ethan Iverson, Jakob Bro, Joe Lovano, Joey Baron, Chris Cheek, Larry Grenadier, Mark Turner, Masabumi Kikuchi, Petra Haden, Steve Cardenas, Tony Malaby, and Billy Hart Quartet (Ethan Iverson, Ben Street, Mark Turner).

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Jazz In Times Square presents BENEFIT FOR JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE & TSUNAMI RELIEF!!

Date: Monday, April 11, 2011
Time: 6pm – 2:00am
Venue: Rosie O’Grady’s Limerick Bar (149 W 46th Street, New York, NY)

Roberto’s Winds and Michiko Studios presents a benefit concert for Japan, with help from DooBeeDooBeeDoo and others. 100% of the proceeds will be go to the Coltrane House of Osaka.The Coltrane House Of Osaka is establishing a fund which will help musicians and musical institutions which have been affected by the disaster. Yasuhiro Fujioka, the president of the Coltrane House, is a prominent figure in the Japanese jazz community and has a long affiliation with Roberto Romeo, owner of Roberto’s Winds and Michiko Studios.

Here is Roberto himself speaking about his event

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Music listings – 4/19 through 4/25

1. Roberto’s invited you to “ELM Trio & Joe Lavano Quartet”

Date: Monday, April 12th, 2010
Time: 8pm, ELM Trio (Esperanza Spaulding – Bass, Leonardo Genovese – Keyboards, Francisco Mela – Drums), 10pm Joe Lovano Quartet (Joe Lovano – Saxophone, Esperanza Spalding – Bass, James Weidman – Piano, Francisco Mela – Drums, Judi Silvano – Voice)
Venue: Rosie O’Grady’s (149 West 46 Street, New York, NY 10036)
Ticket: $10
Genre: Jazz

2. Motoko Honda’s SoundEscape Project

Date: Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
Time: 8pm – 9pm
Venue: The Stone (at the corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street, NY)
Ticket: $10
Genre: contemporary and improve

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