1. Lauren Lee

Date: Monday, February 29, 2016
Time: 7:30 pm
Venue: Antibes Bistro (112 Suffolk St, New York, New York 10002)
Tickets: $t.b.a.
Genre: jazz

Lauren Lee is a forward-thinking vocalist, pianist, and composer based in New York City. A native of the St. Louis (MO) metropolitan area. Her interest in jazz and contemporary classical music lead her to New York University in 2009 to begin a Master of Music in Jazz Studies. By studying under greats like Kenny Werner and Gil Goldstein, she began to find a compositional and improvisational voice of her own. Since graduation, she’s continued to find her voice her three ensembles: The Velocity Duo, a completely improvised electro-acoustic bass and voice duet project; and her “Space Jazz” trio, which focuses on her classical and singer-songwriter flavored jazz compositions, and her standards trio, a guitar/bass/voice ensemble that plays jazz vocal favorites.

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1. Musicians For Musicians (MFM) Open Meeting

Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Time: 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Address: 218 East 25th Street, 1st Fl., New York, NY 10010

For inquiry, please call Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi at 347-963-1448.

For further information about MFM see: www.musiciansformusicians.org

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1. No Orpheus: vocal music of Mohammed Fairouz
w/ Wayne Koestenbaum , Lloyd Schwartz , Adrian Daurov , and Rebecca Ringle

Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, NY, NY 10010)
Tickets: $15/$20/$25
Genre: music which integrates Middle-Eastern modes into Western structures

1. Leni Stern

Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Time: 10pm
Venue: The 55 Bar (55 Christopher St., (Sixth/Seventh Avenue), New York, ( 212 ) 929-9883)
Ticket: $10
Genre: trad. West African arranged music

Acclaimed guitarist and vocalist Leni Stern brings her African music ensemble to Barbés. The music juxtaposes Stern’s trademark inventive guitar and vocal explorations with the indigenous sounds of accomplished African instrumentalists. The result is at once haunting, exuberant, cinematic, personal and resoundingly assured. Featuring Leni Stern on n’goni, electric guitar, vocals, and calabash/Alioune Faye on sabar and djembe,  James Genus and Leo Genovese.

2. Hungry March Band W.  Jonathan Toubin / New York Night Train and Baby Soda

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1. El Tryptophan

Date: Monday, February 1, 2015
Time: 8:30pm
Venue: Manhattan Inn (632 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11222)
Tickets: $10
Genre: singer-song writer/indie rock/electronics/noise

El Tryptophan who is celebrating the release of his debut album Guilt Vacation which is an  experimental ether of mellow distortion adaptations and arrangement edges.” (Impose Magazine). Gryphon Rue, the innovative voice behind El Tryptophan, comes from a legacy of visual artists and political activists. At age 18, Rue toured with Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary in Vietnam to raise money for victims of Agent Orange. Peter Yarrow proclaims Rue’s music to be “as interesting as it is original. He’s going to make a big, wonderful splash.” Rue is a great-grandson of the artist Alexander Calder, who’s experiments with noise and percussion in mobiles helped shape 20th century avant-garde music. Having studied electronic music at Bard College with avant-garde composers Marina Rosenfeld, Richard Teitelbaum, and Zeena Parkins, Rue’s eclectic sound draws from his visual arts background, which includes jobs curating exhibitions and restoring sculptures. Rue has attracted the likes Grammy award-nominated songwriter Peter Himmelman, who declares: “El Tryptophan has in his blood what so many others want; a truly fearless creative spirit.”

Listen to “Syntax Static” 

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