December 2013

Support JACK Arts on Indiegogo

JACK Arts has been a vital arts space for the Brooklyn creative music scene. This wonderful fundraiser is aimed at generating money to provide performing artists guaranteed income. Please consider contributing to the effort! http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/music-for-life-the-jack-challenge-grant-fundraiser

Out Now Music Nights: An Exciting New Concert Series

Yoni Kretzmer is following up his highly successful summer concert series with another program beginning this month, scheduled for each Sunday evening at the Legion (790 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn). Last week’s bill featured the Roy Campbell Trio and Swell-Kretzmer-Heberer-Johnson-Taylor. Upcoming performances include: December 15 Rob Brown Quartet (with Kenny Warren, Peter Bitenc, Juan Pablo Carletti),

Sound American 7 Released

Reposted from Nate Wooley: I’m really happy to personally announce the release of Sound American 7: The Deep Listening Issue at www.soundamerican.org. Exploring those artists that choose to articulate their musical concept by choosing to engage with musical instruments of their own making, creating a new musical language and syntax full of personal meaning outside

Playlist for the Week of 7 Dec 2013

Hag – Moist Areas (Eh? Records, 2012) Ingrid Laubrock & Liam Noble – Let’s Call This … (Babel Label, 2006) Peter Evans Quartet – Live in Lisbon (Clean Feed, 2010) William Hooker Quartet – Lifeline (Silkheart, 1988) William Parker & the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra – Raincoat in the River, vol. 1: ICA Concert

December Artist Feature: Ingrid Laubrock

Ingrid Laubrock has hit the New York scene like a bombshell over the past four years. Having played nearly twenty years on the London scene, Laubrock began making frequent visits to New York in 2008 and formally relocated to the city the following year. Since that time, she has become one of her generation’s leaders