Live Music In CT & NY

Lots going on all around me and here are some of the highlights:

Firehouse 12 in New Haven springs back into action with its 13-week series of Friday evening shows this week (March 26.)  The opening concerts features baritone saxophonist/composer/conceptualist Fred Ho with poet Magdalena Gomez with a program titled "Caliente! Circle Around the Sun."  Ho has been active on the creative music scene since the early 1980s when he founded his Afro Asian Orchestra.  He does not shy away from political issues and has always been in the forefront of cross-cultural experimentations.  He's composed operas, musical theater/multi-media pieces, suites and concept albums. "Caliente" is one of his newer projects and it's described as drawing "upon the fire and heat of anti-imperialist struggle from around the planet, combining incendiary music and poetry infused with searing revolutionary politics." Ms. Gomez, performance poet and activist, has been presenting poetry and shows since 1971 and is the co-founder and artistic director of Teatro V!da, located in Springfield, Massachusetts.
The duo performs 2 sets, 8:30 and 10 p.m. - for more information (including tickets and links to the artists' website), go to www.firehouse.com.
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I wrote several weeks ago about the fine compilation CD published by the New England Conservatory of Music in conjunction with the 40th Anniversary of its Jazz Studies program (review here.) The 8 days of concerts started this past weekend (3/20/10) and continues through this weekend - here's a listing of the rest of the fine series.

Tuesday, March 23
HOT & COOL: NEC JAZZ 40th Presents Darcy James Argue's ('02 M.M.) Secret Society
       
7:30 and 9:30 p.m.
Tickets $25
  
Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th Street, NYC
212-576-2232, www.jazzstandard.net

Wednesday, March 24       
HOT & COOL: NEC JAZZ 40th Presents NEC FACULTY JAZZ ALL STARS & MARTY EHRLICH's ('77 B.M.) QUARTET

7:30 pm  NEC Faculty Jazz All Stars featuring George Garzone, John McNeil, Cecil McBee, Billy Hart and Frank Carlberg '92 M.M.

9:30 pm Marty Ehrlich's Quartet with Ray Anderson, Matt Wilson and John Hébert. 


Thursday, March 25      
HOT & COOL: NEC JAZZ 40th                       
Presents Curtis Hasselbring's "The New Mellow Edwards" & Post-show Jam Session with Frank Carlberg
                    
7:00 pm The New Mellow Edwards featuring trombonist Curtis Hasselbring '88 B.M., tenor saxophonist Chris Speed '90 B.M., bassist Trevor Dunn and drummer John Hollenbeck.
Post-Show Jam Session featuring pianist Frank Carlberg, drummer George Schuller '82 B.M., saxophonist Jeremy Udden '02 B.M. '03 M.M. and Joe Fitzgerald, '87 B.M.

Tickets $10

Douglass Street Music Collective, 295 Douglass St. near 3rd Ave., Gowanus, Brooklyn
myspace.com/295douglass

Friday, March 26     
HOT & COOL: NEC JAZZ 40th Presents A VOCAL SHOWCASE at JOE'S PUB

Featuring vocalists Dominique Eade '82 B.M. '89 A.D (pictured)., Sara Serpa '08 M.M, David Devoe '02 B.M. '04 M.M., Amy Cervini '00 B.M., Jo Lawry '10 D.M., Patrice Williamson '94 M.M., '97 A.D. and Sofia Koutsovitis '03 B.M., with percussionist Richie Barshay '05 B.M., pianist Carmen Staaf '05 B.M., M.M., and bassist Jorge Roeder '05 U.D.

7:00 pm

Tickets $15 + 2 drink or $12 food minimum.

Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette Street, NYC
212-967-7555, www.joespub.com

HOT & COOL: NEC JAZZ 40th Presents the John McNeil-Bill McHenry ('91) Quartet featuring Billy Hart, Ethan Iverson & Matt Penman 

9 p.m. & 10:30 p.m.             

$10 cover; 1 drink minimum

Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, NYC
212-989-9319  www.corneliastreetcafe.com/

Saturday, March 27
HOT & COOL: NEC JAZZ 40th Presents NEC JAZZ SUMMIT
Featuring JOHN MEDESKI ('88) & BILLY MARTIN of Medeski, Martin & Wood with turntable maestro DJ LOGIC; RAN BLAKE, ANTON FIG '75 B.M. , BERNIE WORRELL '67, SARAH JAROSZ '13 B.M., DOMINIQUE EADE '82 B.M. '89 A.D., faculty member JOE MORRIS, LAKE STREET DIVE (Rachael Price '07 B.M., Michael Calabrese '07 B.M., Bridget Kearney '08 B.M., Mike Olson '05 B.M) JASON MORAN, MATTHEW SHIPP '84 B.M.,  and more; MC for the evening will be WBGO's JOSH JACKSON.

7:30 p.m.

Tickets $25 + $10 minimum

B.B. King's Blues Club and Grill, 237 W. 42nd Street, NYC.
212-997-4144   www.bbkingblues.com

Proceeds from the B.B. King's event will support jazz scholarships at NEC.

http://necmusic.edu/jazz40

  

Other events in the NYC area include a series featuring the musicians of the Brooklyn Jazz Underground:

CONNECTION WORKS & THE BROOKLYN JAZZ UNDERGROUND present

UNDERGROUND WORKS - April 2010

Curated by Michel Gentile

http://www.myspace.com/undergroundworksjazz

 

KORZO

667 5th Avenue (b/19^th & 20^th St.)

Brooklyn, NY 11215, www.eurotripbrooklyn.com

 

Cover charge: $7 per set or $10 for the whole night

Thursday, MARCH 25 - (March series curated by Dan Pratt)

Sax trio night!

9:30 - John O'Gallagher Group with Johannes Weidenmuller (bass) and BJUR recording artist Owen Howard (drums)

11:00 - John Ellis Trio with Alan Hampton (bass) and Bill Campbell (drums)

Thursday, APRIL 1

9:30 - Rob Garcia 4 (Noah Preminger, Dan Tepfer, Gary Wang)

11:00 - Jean Rohe & Ilusha Tsinadze

Thursday, APRIL 8

9:30 - Five Winds (Michel Gentile, Batya Sobel, Mike McGinnis, Sara Schoenbeck, Mark Taylor)

11:00 - Nate Radley Group