1. Roberto’s invites you to “Yotam Silberstein Quartet & Sharel Cassity Sextet ”

Date: Monday, May 24, 2010
Time: 8pm – Yotam Silberstein Quartet (Yotam Silberstein – Guitar, Roy Assaf – Piano, Ulysses Owens – Drums and 
John Lee – Bass). 10pm – Sharel Cassity Sextet (Sharel Cassity – Alto Saxophone, Michael Dease – Trombone, Greg Gisbert – Trumpet, Ulysses Owens – Drum, John Lee – Bass, Roy Assaf – Piano)
Venue: Rosie O’Grady’s (149 West 46 Street, New York, NY 10036)
Ticket: $10 each set
Genre: Jazz

2. New Africa Live presents Meklit Hadero & The Olatuja Project

Date: Tuesday, june 1, 2010
Time: 7pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleeker St., Ny, NY 10012, Phone: (212) 505-3474)
Ticket: $22
Genre: folk, singer-songwriter, electronic, jazz, world

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Date: Friday, May 14, 2010
Venue: Lincoln Plaza Cinemas

By Augusta Palmer

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1. Roberto’s invites you to “Princeton Jazz Quartet and Steve Wilson Quartet ”

Date: Monday, May 24, 2010
Time: 8pm – Princeton Jazz Quartet (Tom Artin – trombone/flute, Dick LInciln – vibes, Ed White – bass, Alan Bergman – drums and special guest: Joe Cohn – guitar). 10pm –  Steve Wilson Quartet (Steve Wilson – sax, w/ Linda Oh, Rodney Green and Kerong Chok)
Venue: Rosie O’Grady’s (149 West 46 Street, New York, NY 10036)
Ticket: $10 each set
Genre: Jazz

2. Holy Fuck with Nice Nice

Date: Friday, May 28, 2010
Time: 8pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge ( 158 Bleeker St., Ny, NY 10012, Phone: (212) 505-3474)
Ticket: $16
Genre: electronica, experimental, noise, indie-rock

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Date: Friday, May 7, 2010
Venue: Carnegie Hall/Zankel Hall

Photo by Richard Termine

An Interview by John Kruth

Brion Gysin was a Renaissance man in a century with a 15-second attention span. In a world where people are known for “doing one thing well,” Brion mastered a variety of disciplines which he employed to express himself at any given moment. Gysin was a painter, author, editor, musical anthropologist, inventor, philosopher, mystic and restaurateur. And to add insult to injury, he wore each of those hats with ease and remarkable panache. Surrealist ringleader André Breton, Beat novelist William S. Burroughs and Rolling Stone Brian Jones all recognized his brilliance, yet Brion’s work for some reason went virtually unnoticed by the public.

As an artist, Gysin painted otherworldly figures that danced around the canvas like cryptic Arabic and Japanese calligraphy. He was embraced and then quickly expelled (for vague reasons) by the Surrealists. In truth, Brion simply wasn’t the type to espouse the party platform, no matter how bizarre the doctrine. (Although he’s been associated with the Beats through his connection to Burroughs, Gysin would never claim to be one of that clubby bunch either.)

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1. Roberto’s invites you to “Ellery Eskelin Trio and Hayes Greenfield Trio ”

Date: Monday, May 16, 2010
Time: 8pm Ellery Eskelin Trio (Ellery Eskelin – Tenor saxophone, Gary Versace – Organ and Tyshawn Sorey – Drums)  – 10pm Hayes Greenfield Trio (Hayes Greenfield – Sax, Dean Johnson – Bass and Rob Garcia – Drums)
Venue: Rosie O’Grady’s (149 West 46 Street, New York, NY 10036)
Ticket: $10 each set
Genre: Jazz

2. Debapriya Adhikary & Samanwaya Sarkar premier in NY!

Date: Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Time: 8pm
Venue: St. John’s Lutheran Church (81 Christopher Street, corner of 7th Ave., NY 10014)
Price: $25
Genre: World/India

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Location: Syracuse University Library, Belfer Audio Archive (222 Waverly Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13244-2010)
Date: April 9th, 2010

Text by Richard Palmer

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Title: WOMEN WITHOUT MEN (Zanān bedun-e mardān in farsi – 2009, Germany, Austria and France )
Director: Shirin Neshat (Iran)
Collaborator: Shoja Azari
Screenplay by: Shirin Neshat & Shoja Azari
Starring: Pegah Ferydoni, Arita Shahrzad, Shabnam Tolouei, Orsi Tóth and Shahrnush Parsipur
Soundtrack by: Ryuichi Sakamoto
Camera work by: Martin Gschlacht
Language: Farsi (Persian)
Produced by: IndiePix Films
Awards: Toronto (Special Presentations), Venice (Silver Lion for Best Director at Venezia 66), London (Cinema Europa), Sundance (Spotlight)
Runtime: 99 minutes
Format: 35 mm
Rating: Not Rated
Website: http://www.womenwithoutmenfilm.com

Date: Friday, May 14, through Thursday, May 20th, 2010
Movie theatre: The Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011  | map | more info)

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1. Roberto’s invites you to “Ingrid Jensen and Project O & Simona Premazzi and The Intruders ”

Date: Monday, May 10, 2010
Time: 8pm Ingrid Jensen and Project O featuring Seamus Blake (Ingrid Jensen – Trumpet and Flugelhorn, Seamus Blake – Tenor Saxophone, Gary Versace – Organ and Jon Wikan – Drums)  – 10pm Simona Premazzi and The Intruders (Simona Premazzi – Piano,  Stacy Dillard – Saxophones, Ryan Berg – Bass,  Jason Brown – Drums and Emily Braden – Vocals)
Venue: Rosie O’Grady’s (149 West 46 Street, New York, NY 10036)
Ticket: $10
Genre: Jazz

2. The Crash Ensemble w/ music of Donnacha Dennehy, David Lang, and Terry Riley

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Date: Saturday, May 1, 2010
Venue: Peter Norton/Symphony Space
Presented by the World Music Institute

Shujaat Hussain Khan (photo by Jack Vartoogian)