From the Vision Festival folks:
EVOLVING MUSIC · EVOLVING VOICE
Mondays at the Local 269269 E Houston St, New York (corner of Suffolk St)
Regular = $10 per set / $15 for 2 sets / $20 all night
Students/Seniors = $7 per set / $12 for 2 / $17 all nightJanuary 31
All About the Muse· 7pm Vocal Improv Session #8
“Levine is a scatting, swinging Jazz singer” – Cadence
Dori Levine (voice) / Rosie Hertlein (voice) / Simon Jermyn (bass gtr)· 8pm Rosi Hertlein
“destined for great things” – Richard Cook & Brian Morton
Rosie Hertlein (voice)· 9pm Mike Prides’s From Bacteria To Boys
“a successful balance of the tuneful and the abstract” – Jazztimes
Mike Pride (drums) / Darius Jones (alto sax)
Alexis Marcello (keyboard) / Peter Bitenc (bass)· 10pm Harvey Valdes & Damion Reid
“Damion Reid’s drumming – melding the frenetic flurries of India
percussion to an Art Blakey-like time keeping. ”
Harvey Valdes (guitar) / Damion Reid (drums)February 7
· 7pm Darius Jones Trio
“unique, alternative, and soulful” – AAJ
Darius Jones (sax & composition)
Adam Lane (bass) / Jason Nazary (drums)· 8pm Staley / Kitamura / Wooley
“redefining the sound of the trumpet” – Dowtown Music Gallery
Jim Staley (trombone) / Kyoko Kitamurra (vocals)
Nate Wooley (trumpet)· 9pm Macroscopia
“instruments-as-chemicals interact with one another ” – AAJ
Ken Silverman (guitar) / Daniel Carter (trumpet)
Tom Zlabinger (bass) / Claire DeBrunner (bassoon)· 10pm Federico Ughi & Darius Jones
“Ughi is characteristically splendid” – Cadence
Darius Jones (sax), Frederico Ughi (drums)February 14
Love at First Note
· 7pm Golda Solomon & Language of Swans
“masterful swordplay” – Times Union
Golda Solomon (poetry) / Christopher Dean Sullivan (bass artisan)
Michael TA Thompson (soundrhtythium) / Joe Giardullo (reeds)· 8pm Katie Bull Group Project
“a dazzling voyage” – Jazz Times
Katie Bull (vocals) / Landon Knoblock (piano) / Joe Fonda (bass)
George Schuller (drums) / Jeff Lederer (reeds) + Chocolates· 9pm Music for Lovers and Dreamers
“a full-bodied, attractive sound” – AAJ
Lorenzo Sanguedolce (tenor sax)
Sofie Sorman (voice) / Ratzo Harris (bass)· 10pm Twisted Standard Trio
“making every note count” – Downtown Music Gallery
Judith Insell (viola) / Tomas Ulrich (cello)
Reut Regev (trombone & flugabone)
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