Wednesday, April 6, 2011

University of the Streets is proud to announce....

University of the Streets is proud to announce the continuation of its Curators Series at the Muhammad Salahuddeen Memorial Jazz Theatre located at 130 East 7th Street in the heart of the East Village. The series is administered through the continued efforts of the organization's Executive Director Saadia Salahuddeen in conjunction with veteran arts advocate and writer Paul Miller.

The newly established curated series of concerts has been structured to provide audiences with the largest music concert and community supported venue to date mounted in the East Village. All are welcome. The curator for April is Chris Stover. Transplanted to NYC from Seattle, Chris Stover is a trombonist and composer and Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Composition at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music.

He has performed recently with Eddie Palmieri, Pablo Menendez, Charlie Hunter, Slavic Soul Party, Bobby Sanabria, Richard Boukas, Wayne Horvitz, Robin Holcomb, Tom Varner, Jovino Santos Neto, and Michael Spiro, and he has toured internationally with Pablo Moses, Apple Gabriel, Quasinada, Jumbalassy, and the Harry James Orchestra, as well as his own solo and group projects. To read more about Chris and the Curated Serieshere.


COMING EVENTS:

Wed, April 06, 2011
8:00 pm

Influenced by beat music and the electronic era The Loft Project's music sails between very open structures and complex compositions. The four musicians and friends also happen to be roommates and decided that their living room should be a laboratory: this is where the music is generated, rehearsed and performed in house concerts and house parties. With Yacine Boularès, sax; Ari Bragi Karason, trumpet; Michael Valeanu, guitar; TBA, bass; Arthur Hnatek, drums.



Wed, April 06, 2011
10:00 pm

"The Franky Rousseau Big Band" is a collective of young NY musicians playing all original material by Franky Rousseau. With influences ranging from electronic music to contemporary jazz, the group is a modern approach to a forgotten setting... Featuring Arthur Hnatek (drums), Matt Rousseau (bass), Michael Valeanu (guitar), Dominic Mekky (piano); Cody Rowlands, Derek Ganong, Francesco Fratini, Ari Bragi Karason, Sam Neufeld (trumpet); Andy Sharkey, Matthew Hartnett, Eric Saras, Alfredo Marques, Kurtis Muller (trombone); Yacine Boulares, Levon Henry, Dillon Baiocchi, Ilia Skibiinsky, Sarah Safaie (woodwinds).



Thu, April 07, 2011
8:00 pm

Andre Roligheten - saxophone and Eyoff Dale - piano visiting from the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, with Andrew D'Angelo - alto saxophone. 



Sat, April 09, 2011
8:00 pm

Pianist/composer David Lopato will perform a concert of all original compositions ranging from traditional to avant-garde jazz, a number of which appear on his recently released solo CD "Many Moons". This dynamic trio includes Ratzo Harris on bass and Gene Jackson on drums. 



Sat, April 09, 2011
10:00 pm

Formed in 1999, the Diane Moser Quintet has performed throughout the NY/NJ area. In 2001 they released their CD ""Looking Forward/Looking Back"" and in 2009 recorded the music for the award winning documentary "Breaking Boundaries: The Art of Alex Masket", directed by Dennis Connors with music by Diane Moser.



Sun, April 10, 2011
11:30 am

SUNDAY JAZZ BRUNCH
FEATURING KALI. Z. FASTEAU on piano, drums, nai flute, mizmar, voice and more... $15. / just music and videos:

Sun, April 10, 2011
8:00 pm

HANS TAMMEN & THIRD EYE ORCHESTRA Hans Tammen uses Earle Brown's open form composition idea as a starting point to create a large multi-movement piece, thoroughly composed and purely improvised at the same time, inspired by West African roots of Jazz, Miles Davis' Bitches Brew, Steve Coleman, and Stravinsky's layering or Steve Reich's phase techniques. Drawing from a single repertoire of around 100 pre-conceived musical units, the conductor uses the orchestra as an instrument, while each performer shapes the music through virtuosic improvisation and the individual stylization of musical performance. "Everything about Third Eye Orchestra... indicates mastery and control" (Howard Mandel / CD Liner Notes) -- http://www.tammen.org/ens_teo.html Rebecca Cherry (vio), Sarah Bernstein (vio), Stephanie Griffin (vla), Tomas Ullrich (cel), Chris McIntyre (tb), Briggan Krauss (as, bari), Robert Dick (fl, cbfl), Ferdinand Rexforth (ts), Dafna Naphtali (voice, live sound processing), Nick Didkovsky (g), Denman Maroney (p/kb), Ursel schlicht (p/kb), Stomu Takeishi (b), Andrew Drury (dr), Hans Tammen (composer, conductor, concept).



Mon, April 11, 2011
8:00 pm

A concert honoring Brazil's reknowned genius of contemporary music will feature rarely performed works by Pascoal and legendary composers from his groups both past and present: Jovino Santos Neto, Itiberê Zwarg, Vinicius Dorin. All arrangements and transcriptions by Richard Boukas. Featuring Mika Hary (vocals), Ben Flocks, Matt Chalk (woodwinds), Matt Brown (guitar), Eden Ladin (piano), Max Esquivel (electric bass), James Muschler (drums).

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