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Newsbits: Maneri at Barbes / Setola di Maiale / Nate Wooley in NY / Experimental Music in Nashville

Mat Maneri’s Half Face, Feat: Mat Maneri, Ed Schuller, Lucian Ban, Diego Voglino, will perform Friday, March 15, 8pm, at Barbes, 376 9th Street Brooklyn, NY 11215. Italian underground label, Setola di Maiale, celebrates its 20th anniversary in this current year. Up to now Setola di Maiale has realized more than 240 free improvisation, free […]

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Barbes September Calendar

Highlights from Brooklyn’s Barbes: Fri 09/02 THE SPOKES. Not So Fast (Strudelmedia Records) CD release party. Andy Biskin – clarinet, Phillip Johnston – soprano saxophone, Curtis Hasselbring – trombone. Come celebrate the release of the first CD by the world’s most portable jazz band. Jazz meets chamber music, combining wry, angular compositions with soulful improvisations, […]

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September at Barbes

From Brooklyn’s Barbes: Tue 09/07 7:00pm JENNY SCHEINMAN Violinist/composer Jenny Scheinman works with a variety of performers including Norah Jones, Bill Frisell, Madeleine Peyroux and Jimmy Dale Gilmore. When she is not touring the world, she can be found here most Tuesdays with an almost infinite variety of lineup. After an abscence of two months, […]

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Mary Halvorson Quintet CD Release Concert At Barbès September 30th

Image by carlo pecoraro via Flickr From Improvised Communications: On Thursday, September 30th, guitarist/composer Mary Halvorson and her working quintet will celebrate their highly anticipated debut, Saturn Sings (Firehouse 12 Records), with a hometown performance at Barbés in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The record, Ms. Halvorson’s second as a bandleader following her acclaimed 2008 trio release, […]

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Erik Friedlander’s Broken Arm Trio at Barbes Reviewed

Erik Friedlander (via last.fm) From the New York Times: The cellist Erik Friedlander possesses a deep, singing tone on his instrument, and when he gives into it completely, he can be a heartbreaker. At the diminutive Brooklyn club Barbès, which he regards as a second home, his sound approaches room-size resonance, with little or no […]

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The Thirteenth Assembly @ Barbès

From Improvised Communications: On Wednesday, March 11th at 8:00 p.m., The Thirteenth Assembly will celebrate its new CD, (un)sentimental (Important Records), at Barbès in Brooklyn. The New York-based quartet features Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet), Jessica Pavone (viola), Mary Halvorson (guitar) and Tomas Fujiwara (drums).

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Maneri and Peterson at BARBÈS

Image via Wikipedia Mat Maneri and Randy Peterson play BARBÈS next month. What: Mat Maneri (Viola), Randy Peterson (Drums) When: October 9th, 2008, 10pm Where: Barbes, 376 9th street , Brooklyn Cost: $10 Mat Maneri and Randy Peterson will play at Barbes, Brooklyn on Thursday, October 9th, 10pm. These two renowned, maverick musicians draw from […]

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BARBÈS in September

Brooklyn’s BARBÈS offers a number of cool shows in the coming month. Highlights include: GREG HEFFERNAN (cello) and ZACK BROCK (violin) cellist Greg Heffernan (Lee Konitz, Matt Darriau, Henry Threadgill) and violinist Zach Brock (Alice Coltrane, Jack DeJohnette, Stanley Clarke) team up as a duo, blending improvisation, laptop-assisted effects and all-around string-on-string action THE QUAVERS […]

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Coming up at BARBES

Brooklyn’s B A R B È S offering some shows next week: Tue 08/05 JENNY SCHEINMAN. Violinist/composer Jenny Scheinman works a variety of performers including Norah Jones, Bill Frisell, Madeleine Peyroux and John Zorn. She is in residence most Tuesdays with an almost infinite variety of lineup. This week, with steve cardenas (guitar). Wed 08/06 STOCHASTIC BROOKLYN Every Wednesday in […]

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NIGHT OF THE RAVISHED LIMBS at Barbes

A weekly series of shows at this Brooklyn club: “wed 11/12: For the Month of November, NIGHT OF THE RAVISHED LIMBS presents a FESTIVAL OF IMPROVISED MUSIC curated by michaël attias with special guest okkyung lee. michael attias (alto saxophone) + tim barnes (percussion) + trevor dunn (bass) + ellery eskelin (tenor saxophone) + sean […]