Line-up TBA
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Brought to you by Brooklyn Jazz Underground and Connection Works
Posted on: February 21, 2013
8pm: Duoh!
Ingrid Laudbrock tenor sax, Tom Rainey drums
9:30 pm Daniel Levin Quartet
dl cello, russ lossing wurlitzer, max johnson bass, jp carletti drums
Radio Zero’s FB page: HERE
Posted on: February 21, 2013
8pm - Uptown Girls - Cory Bracken (percussion) and Joe White (guitar)
9pm - Smiley/Nazary - Andrew Smiley (guitar) Jason Nazary (percussion) (members of Little Women)
10pm - Silent Isle with Xanthocephalus - Anastasia Clarke (Guitar), Sandy Gordon (percussion), Russ Aldertone (bass). soundcloud.com/silentisle, soundcloud.com/aldertone
Posted on: May 13, 2013
Teeth is a trio of musicians:
Dan Loomis plays the bass in Teeth.
Josh Rutner plays the saxophone in Teeth.
Jeff Davis plays the drums in Teeth.
Three teeth strong.
Three strong teeth.
A molar eclipse is upon us…
LINKS:
http://joshrutner.com/
http://www.danloomismusic.com/
http://www.jeffdavisdrums.com/
VIDEO:
Posted on: May 02, 2013
Hannah Cohen comes from a family of poets and ministers, musicians, broadcasters and booksellers. Despite growing up in a strict Belfast home with no mirrors, alcohol or Shakespeare, her grandfather, Bertie Rodgers, became a lauded poet, BBC broadcaster and good friend of Dylan Thomas. Hannah’s mother was a 17 year old British schoolgirl on holiday in San Francisco when she met Hannah’s father, a jazz drummer from the Midwest, and there Hannah was raised surrounded by music, musicians, and hippie intellectuals.
She left home as a teenager to travel the world working as a model, soon finding herself in New York and becoming over the next few years something of a muse to the city’s art scene, posing for Richard Prince, Terry Richardson, David Salle, Will Cotton, and Ryan McGinley. Working on the other side of the lens, Hannah shot album covers and music videos for friends, and her first book of photography, “Fotografias. Brasil”, was published earlier this year.
She also immersed herself in New York’s music scene, working at the Village Vanguard, staying out all night; in the East Village at Nublu’s legendary Brazilian parties, becoming friends with singers and writers and producers. And quietly, privately, she started teaching herself guitar and writing songs. They were simple songs, sung to herself, private reflections on love and loneliness. But when she did start sharing them with her friends, usually in the wee hours as a party was winding down, rooms were hushed, jaws were dropped, and it became clear to everyone who heard them that these songs were something very special indeed.
Hannah’s debut record, “Child Bride”, was produced by Thomas Bartlett, aka Doveman, known for his keyboard work with artists like The National, Martha Wainwright, and Antony and the Johnsons, and also producer of upcoming records by Glen Hansard and Julia Stone. Drawn from Hannah and Thomas’s mutual friends, the core band is a small but potent group of some of New York’s finest musicians, including Sam Amidon, Rob Moose (Bon Iver, Antony and the Johnsons), Brad Albetta (producer for Martha Wainwright and Teddy Thompson), Doug Wieselman (Laurie Anderson, the Lounge Lizards), and Kenny Wollesen (John Zorn, Bill Frisell). Their sessions together were captured by engineer Patrick Dillett, equally known for his work recording powerful female vocalists like Mary J Blige, Mariah Carey, and Marisa Monte, and as a producer for art rock legends like David Byrne and Arto Lindsay.
Together they have created an expansive, haunted album, lush and welcoming, but also at times almost painfully intimate. Hannah’s strikingly distinctive voice, equal parts sex and innocence, and her casually assured but always slightly skewed phrasing, are at the center of it all, from the heartbroken outpouring of “The Crying Game” to the dark insomnia pop of “Boy + Angel” (a Doveman cover, and the record’s only non-original), to “California”, an irresistibly catchy love letter to Hannah’s home state, with a sunny disposition that can’t quite hide the undercurrent of melancholy and homesickness.
WEBSITE: http://hannahcohenchildbride.com/
Posted on: April 22, 2013
Lineup TBA
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Brought to you by Brooklyn Jazz Underground and Connection Works
Posted on: May 13, 2013
8:00 pm - Eivin Opsvick on solo bass
9:30 pm - P Carletti Trio, jpc on drums, tony malaby on sax, chris hoffman on cello
Radio Zero’s FB page: HERE
Posted on: May 13, 2013
A subterranean romp the likes of which Ditmas Park, Brooklyn has never seen. Expect audacious clown, unruly puppetry, sultry burlesque, and an array of antics and stunts all crammed into a tiny basement. Expect performers risking life, limb and decorum for your edification. Expect full frontal…no, wait! Leave your expectations at the door, com’n on in for some dangerous fun, good whiskey and free cookies!
NOT FOR KIDS
EVERY LAST TUESDAY OF THE MONTH!
See this month’s lineup HERE!
Are you a performer interested in joining the TDF crew? If so please sign up HERE!
Posted on: September 23, 2011
Originally hailing from Ichikawa, Japan, Jazz Guitarist, Hajime Yoshida is one of the most sophisticated guitarists, accompanists and composers in New York City.
Hajime was fascinated by music at a very young age; he had been taking violin lessons from local professionals and had chances to perform recitals before he started playing guitar.
The very first time he touched a guitar was a part of music class in middle school, and his parents gave him his first guitar at the age of 14. 1 year later, he started taking lessons from professional guitar players in Tokyo area. Hajime also started his career as a composer at the same time, and it did not take much time for him to start playing original compositions at venues with his band.
Hajime’s strong passion to music and interest to new sounds led him to United States when he was 18 years old. He started his bachelor’s degree in Jazz Performance at the University of North Texas in 2003; while he was studying at the school, he had a fortunate to play with 2 O’Clock Lab Bad directed by Jim Riggs. Hajime started to be one of the sought-after guitarists in Dallas/ Ft. Worth area music scene before he graduate the school.
In the summer of 2009, him and his musician friends decided to move to New York, drove a moving truck to Brooklyn, NY. After he moved, he has completed a master’s degree at Queens College in the summer of 2011. While he was at school, he studied with; Fred Hamilton, Ari Hoenig, Gilad Hekselman, Jonathan Kreisberg, Johannes Weidenmueller, Antonio Hart, Jeb Patton, and David Berkman.
Hajime has had a chance to perform with great musicians such as Linda Oh, Chris Tordini, David Berkman, Shelly Carrol, Darrel Green, Michael League, Michael Palmer, Dan Loomis (The Wee Trio), Julian Shore, Jonathan Fisher and Petros Klampanis.
While he has been very active as a sideman in New York City, he released his debut CD including all original compositions, “Unlimitation” with Sylvester Onyejiaka on sax, Yuka Tadano on bass and Keita Ogawa on drums in May 2012. Not only he is one of the sought-after guitarists in the city, but also has he been trying and searching very hard for new sounds as a composer
WEBSITE: http://www.hajimeyoshida.com
Posted on: May 13, 2013
11p - Plainville
10p - Robert Stillman
9p - Eliot Krimsky
“...a richly engrossing project from the Brooklyn-by-way-of-Boston saxophonist that finds new ground between jazz, instrumental rock and folk…Udden’s crew is just as comfortable carving out room in indie rock’s territory, but jazz fans should be equally taken with this caliber of invention.”
- Chris Barton, LA TIMES
“Plainville’s music is decentralized, band-wise, and all over the place category-wise, imagining new kinds of country and folk and pop. ...overall sounds as new as anything I’ve heard from a jazz group this year.”
- Ben Ratliff, NY TIME
Posted on: May 13, 2013
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*Cover charge is $10, unless otherwise indicated.
*Maximum Occupancy is 45 people. Tickets are first come, first serve.