DOWNTOWN MUSIC GALLERY ‘FREE IN-STORE PERFORMANCE SERIES’
Date: July 8, 2012
Time: 6pm – 7pm
Venue: Downtown Music Gallery (13 Monroe Street, New York, NY 10002-7351, Phone: (212) 473-0043)
A long set of smart, tuneful, counterintuitive Persian jazz/dub/psychedelic vocal- instrumentals with Sohrab on sax & vocals, Brian Prunka on guitar and oud, Michael Wimberly on djembe and guests. They’re going to play songs from the new CD and also improvise in the moment.
Sohrab Saaat Ladjevardi (tenor and soprano saxes & vocal), Lautaro Burgos (drums), Greg Zweiben (bass), Kaveh Haghtalab (kamancheh), Baba Don Eaton (congas, djembe, percussion), Michael Wimberly (congas, djembe, percussion), Alessio Romano (drums), Marko Pankovitch (g), Damon Banks (bass), Swiss Chriss (drums), Derek Nievergelt (bass), Masamba Diop (talking drum), Mar Gueye (sabar), Alejandro Castellano (guitar), Kurt Dahlke (electronics), Satish (electric trumpet), Sylvain Leroux (fula flute), Piruz Partow (electric tar), Ladell Mclin (guitar), Sinan Goundogdu (oud), Brian Prunka (guitar and oud), John Pietaro (vibes), Dave Ross (guitar), Bradley Madsen (electric trombone), Dawoud (dilruba), Doron Lev (drums & vocals), Billi Ficca (drums), Lucas Jeanrichard (vibraphone), Ravish Momin (drums & laptop), April Centrone (drums & daf) and Lukas Ligeti (drums).
SoSaLa is: Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi on tenor and soprano sax & vocals, Baba Don Eaton (Last Poets) on djembe, congas & percussion and Lautaro Burgos (from Argentina) on drums and percussion and Greg Zweiben on electric bass.
They’re performing “Sohrab’s Shushtari”. Sohrab on soprano sax!!!
Rob Fontana (keyboards), Mosno Al-Moseek (djembe), Tony Kelly (keys) and Eric Kennedy (drums).
Luke Stewart (bass), Louie Rozier (drums, flute, percussion), Rob Coltun (guitar), Michael Coltun (bass), Byron McWilliams (drums), Warren G. Crudup III (drums), Jamal Moore (alto sax) and Pete Muldoon (guitar).
Steve Marquette (guitar), Lucas Gillan (drums), Alex Wing (bass, guitar and oud), Daniel Thatcher (bass), Greg Essig (drums)
Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi – saxophone & vocals, Steve Marquette – guitar, Lucas Gillan – drums, djembe & percussion and Alex Wing – bass & oud.
Songlist:
1. Heavy Funk
2. Khorasan
3. Everyday Blues
4. A Beginning Is An Ending
Songlist:
1. Happy April’s Fool Day
2. Nu Persian Flamenco
Tarik Hassan(bass), Marcello Bennetti (drums), Jeff Albert (trombone and electronics), Helen Gillet (cello and electronics), Joe Cabral (bass), Chris Alford (guitar), Martin Krusche (soprano sax) and Rob Wagner (tenor sax).
Seattle (2)
Amy Denio (alto sax, accordion, vocals, etc.) and Parvaneh Daneshvar (setar)
Portland (3)
David Ornette Cherry (keys), Gordon Lee (keys) and Joe Janiga (drums)
Minneapolis (3)
Casey O’Brien (bass), Davu Seru (drums) and Park Evans (guitarist).