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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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Single and LP Reviews: SADATO GROUP/ALEF – A Deeper Legacy

Reviews by Dawoud Kringle

Saxophonist/vocalist/bandleader SoSaLa (a.k.a. Sadato) has some history behind him.

Readers of doobeedoobeedoo.info will know that he has re-released some of his earlier music. 1993 is a recording he made in ’93 featuring Mark C (of Live Skull, Fuse, Spoiler and Int’l Shades) on guitar, Toshimaru Nakamura on guitar, David Motamed (formerly with Arthur Lee and Townes Van Zandt) on bass, James Lo (composer and sound designer) on drums, and Peter Gordon (composer, producer) on tenor saxophone and jaw harp. 1994 – Live at CBGB was a landmark recording he’d made of one of the two SADATO performances at the legendary club. He was joined by Masaki Shimizu (fretless bass and backing vocals), Ryo Kato (drums and backing vocals), and Toshimaru Nakamura (electric guitar). Legendary soundman Martin Bisi recorded it.

However, SoSaLa’s roots go much deeper. In 1984, he released a 7-inch flexi single with his Osaka band, SADATO GROUP, titled  Kafesho + Gohon Gahon.  With Sadato on sax, organ, and vocals, Mutsuhiko Izumi on guitar and recording engineer, Koji Ito on tenor sax, and Hitoshi Usami on drums) through the Osaka indie label Kang Gung Rec.

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CD Review: SoSaLa “1993” – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

SArtist: SoSaLa
Title: 1993
Formats: CD and digital
Cat.#: DBDCD003
Label: DooBeeDoo Rec
Genre: NO WAVE
Stream and purchase CD here: https://sosala.hearnow.com/1993

Album Review by Dawoud Kringle

Retrospectives are a double edged sword. They threaten to over-glorify a past that is gone and will never return. At the same time, they perform an essential service by providing something many people sorely lack: historical perspective (not to mention preserving music that needs to be preserved). Especially in a retrospective recording which looks back to a time when music was made at a special time and with special musicians.

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Review: Live Skull “Party Zero”…every punk is a legend!

“Getting in a room and being really noisy is just a natural response to what’s going on right now, because otherwise you’ll just go crazy. That gave Live Skull a reason to exist again.” – Mark C

Artist: Live Skull
Title: Party Zero
Formats: CD/LP/digital
Label: Bronson Records
Genre: No Wave, Experimental, Noise Rock, Alternative Rock
Stream and buy here: https://liveskull.bandcamp.com/album/party-zero

Review by Dawoud Kringle

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