Bill Laswell
Henry Kaiser kicking off February residencies at The Stone where Dave Lombardo's band Philm added a show
If you’re in the market for a brilliant postmodern guitar hero, you could do a whole lot worse than Henry Kaiser. This Bay Area diver/filmmaker/musician has appeared on more than 50 records since the early ’70s, ranging from total improvisations to jazz to experimental and progressive rock…
Ornette Coleman celebrated at Prospect Park w/ Patti Smith, Flea, Thurston Moore, Ornette himself & more (pics, setlist)
The 2014 Celebrate Brooklyn! season continued with another free show in Prospect Park this past Thursday (6/12), a tribute to pioneering free jazz great Ornette Coleman (also part of Blue Note Jazz Fest)…
Helio Parallax releasing an LP w/ mems of Cocorosie, Major Lazer (streams), celebrating at Union Pool
Helio Parallax are a trio rooted in dub, skipping the laptops to do electronic music the analog way. Josh Werner (CocoRosie), Takuya Nakamura, and Marihito Ayabe (Dub Nomads) combine cavernous reverb, deep bass lines, and reggae/trip hop-y rhythms with stylish cool jazz…
Ohm Resistance show lineup includes Blood of Heroes w/ Bill Laswell (who played in Bladerunner, plays Prospect Park w/ Flea, Patti Smith, Bruce Hornsby & more)
The Ohm Resistance Label Showcase to be held at Brooklyn club Saint Vitus on May 31 has taken shape and it’s just as wild as you’d expect from the Brooklyn-based avant-garde label…
William S Burroughs Centenary Celebration underway (events scheduled around NYC and the world)
Literary and postmodern icon William S Burroughs, who died in 1997, would have turned 100 this year and there are Centenary celebration events happening all over the world…
John Zorn's Bladerunner (with Dave Lombardo & Bill Laswell) playing a pair of shows at Reggie's in May
As seen on BrooklynVegan, revered saxophonist // composer John Zorn is always keeping busy with some kind of project. Last year was about celebrating his 60th birthday by performing all sorts of folk, and he just recently played with Thurston Moore at the former Twilight member‘s NYC residency…
John Zorn's Bladerunner (feat. Dave Lombardo & Bill Laswell) playing NYC and Australia's Adelaide Festival
Legendary saxophonist/composer John Zorn has a well-known proclivity for collaborating from musicians from all walks of life; he recently played with Thurston Moore during the latter’s residency at The Stone, for instance and spent much of last year playing with all sorts of folk while celebrating his 60th birthday…
Lou Reed, John Zorn, MGMT and more collaborating with Joshua Light Show for NYC performances in September
The Joshua Light Show, founded by multimedia artist Joshua White, is perhaps the most legendary group of live music visualists. As resident artists at Bill Graham’s Fillmore East during the late 1960’s, and in performances at Woodstock, Newport Jazz Festival, Tanglewood, Carnegie Hall, and the classic film Midnight Cowboy, White and his cohorts created live, colorful, psychedelic projections behind the great bands of that era including the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors and The Who…
Gyan Riley playing w/ Terry @ LPR, curated shows @ the Stone
Terry and Gyan Riley have been performing together since the late 90’s and have appeared in concert throughout the USA and Europe. The music has a connection to the improvising traditions of both Jazz and Indian Classical but more importantly depends on a synchronous intuition that has developed between a father and a son…
Winter Jazz Fest 2012 (January 5-7 in NYC)
Nels Cline’s Stained Radiance at Winter Jazz Fest 2011 (more by Andrew Frisicano)
Winter Jazz Fest is returning to NYC in 2012 and will take place in multiple Greenwich Village venues from January 6-7 including Le Poisson Rouge, Sullivan Hall, Kenny’s Castaways, Zinc Bar, and The Bitter End…
