8:00pm
Samantha Kochis - Flute
9:00pm
Kyle Kidd - Voice / Mauricio Escamilla - Percussion
10:00pm
XXE=SHE
curated by Tcheser Holmes
$20
Musique Libre Femmes - 7:30 pm
Cheryl Pyle - Flute
Roberta Piket - Piano
Ayumi Ishito - Tenor Sax
GPS - 8:30 pm
Guillermo Gregorio -Clarinet
Jeff Pearring - Alto Sax
Charley Sabatino- Bass
$20
Eva Novoa & Vivienne Aerts - 8 pm
Eva Novoa - piano & Chinese gongs
Vivienne Aerts - vocals, Korg R3 synth & effects
Vivienne Aerts & Ratzo Harris - 9 pm
Vivienne Aerts - vocals, Korg R3 synth & effects,
Ratzo Harris - upright bass
$20
Vivienne Aerts presents two different duos for this evening at iBeam. Vivienne is joined first by Brooklyn based (Barcelona born) pianist Eva Novoa on piano and Chinese gongs. Vivienne and Eva met in New York in 2022. This will be Novoa-Aert’s first live performance. For the second set Vivienne presents another duo with bassist Ratzo Harris with whom she has a solid collaboration and many past performances together.
The staggeringly versatile skill-set of NYC-based Dutch Singer, Educator, Psychologist and Artist-preneur Vivienne Aerts busts myths around the ‘Jill of all trades’ paradigm with a nonchalance that leaves even the most skeptical purist taking a bow. A practicing clinical psychologist and choir conductor in Europe before she went on to be a Fulbright scholar and Suma Cum Laude Berklee graduate, her collaborators since have included some of the most iconic names in the world of jazz. Her eclectic ‘experience’ events in collaboration with her husband, renowned pastry chef Ted Steinebach was the root of her multi-disciplinary approach to the making of her new album, ‘Typuhthâng’, which not just features a 100 female musicians from around the globe, but also comes with a bar of bean-to-bar chocolate from Original Beans Chocolate, a company that pro-actively empowers female cacao farmers of Virunga State Park in Congo. Besides this, she is a faculty member at Berklee College of music where she has been instrumental in building a new generation of performers who are not only skilled musicians but also mentally and physically healthy individuals.
https://vivienneaerts.nl/
Ratzo B. Harris is considered an innovative bassist who has worked with some of the greatest musicians of our time. John Handy, Charles Lloyd, Joe Lovano, Jon Hendricks, Ted Curson, Tim Berne, Betty Carter, Helen Merrill, Les Paul, Joanne Brackeen, Joe Henderson, Jim Pepper and Betty Buckley are just a few of the artists who have collaborated with him. In 1995 he was a semi-finalist for the Thelonious Monk Competition and he has been a contributing columnist for Bass Player Magazine. He uses a 6 string upright bass and his playing is been called "muscular, a rebar of sonic foundation, yet sinuous and subtle.” Ratzo has also been active as an educator, and has taught at Purdue University, Indiana University, University of Massachusetts, Berklee College, New England Conservatory, Rotterdam Conservatory, University of Ludwigsburg, the Music High Schools of Wurztburg and Cologne, the New School for Social Research, the Manhattan School of Music and New York University.
"A vivid sense of drama and its intrinsic, minute shadings of light upon dark places animate pianist Eva Novoa's work. Barcelona bred and keening with Brooklyn bravura, Novoa swaps the fore and backgrounds with uncompromised glee. Expressionistic, Impressionistic, and forthright, she aligns and upsets the edges to her liking. (...) the whole of Novoa/Gress/Gray Trio, Vol. 1 is a distinctly engaging and fascinating listen". Mike Jurkovic, All About Jazz **** February 2024.
8 pm
Kaelen Ghandhi (Tenor Sax)
James Wengrow (Guitar)
Colson Jimenez (Bass)
Kevin Murray (Drums)
9 pm
Jeff Pearring (Alto Sax)
Jonathan Goldberger (Guitar)
Charley Sabatino (Bass)
Ken Kobayashi (Drums)
$15
Bay Area bassist Lisa Mezzacappa & Brooklyn bassist Brandon Lopez convene a horde of local bassists for an evening of small and large group improvisations. Inspired by Mark Dresser and William Parker's legendary Deep Tones for Peace bass gatherings, Mezzacappa has hosted similar events on the West Coast in recent years, inviting local composers to contribute structures and scores for the bassists to navigate.
Check out the Transby Bass Choir's 4-hour on-air marathon on KFJC in 2019:
https://www.lisamezzacappa.com/transbaybasschoir.html
Featuring:
Anna Abondolo
Michael Bates
Shayna Dulberger
Ken Filiano
James Ilgenfritz
Eva Lawitts
Max Johnson
Brandon Lopez
Lisa Mezzacappa
Lim Yang
Yoon Sun Choi - voice/compositions
Sylvester Germaine - guitar
Chet Doxas - clarinet/tenor saxophone
Lim Yang - bass
$20
An evening of originals, standards and just good songs from this drummer-less quartet.
Steve Hirsh Quartet - 8 pm
Dave Sewelson - bari sax
Jon Elbaz - piano
Kevin Ray - bass
Steve Hirsh - drums
Steve Hirsh Quintet - 9 pm
Ellen Christi - voice
Eri Yamamoto - piano
Jeff Pearring - alto sax
Colson Jimenez - bass
Steve Hirsh - drums
$20
7:30PM-8:15PM
Celine Kang - Guitar
Ken Kobayashi - Drums & Percussion
8:30PM-9:15PM
Teté Leguía - Bass
Brenna Rey - Bass
Andrew Smiley - Guitar
Nick Podgurski - Drums
9:30PM-10:15PM
Eli Wallace - Piano
Brittany Karlson - Bass
Cleek Schrey - Violin
Nick Neuburg - Drums & Percussion
$20
WORKS - 8 pm
Michel Gentile - flute, alto flute, bass flute, piccolo
Daniel Kelly - piano
Rob Garcia - drums
Ground-breaking trio WORKS, featuring Michel Gentile (flute), Daniel Kelly (piano) & Rob Garcia (drums), celebrates the release of Scouring for the Elements. The band forges a distinct and powerful musical voice with its unique instrumentation, innovative compositions and 17 years of group chemistry on the new album Scouring For The Elements.
$20
DOT ISO - 6 pm
Vivek Menon (Violin)
Dylan DelGiudice (Guitar/Sax)
Orchid McRae (Drums & Percussion)
YONEZAWA/FILIANO/KOBAYASHI - 7 pm
Megumi Yonezawa (Piano)
Ken Filiano (Bass)
Ken Kobayashi (Drums)
ROSENBLOOM/FILIANO/BECKMANN - 8 pm
Mara Rosenbloom (Piano)
Ken Filiano (Bass)
Alex Beckmann (Drums & Percussion)
$20
Eva Novoa solo piano - 8pm
Eva Novoa - piano & Chinese gongs
Evan Palmer’s Spatial Decay feat. Shinya Lin - 9pm
Evan Palmer - double bass
Sam Childs - saxophones
John Dalton - drums
Shinya Lin - piano
$20
The hard-hitting trio of improvisers, Spatial Decay, comes to IBeam for their debut performance in NYC. Evan Palmer (double bass, NYC), Sam Childs (saxophones, Boston) and John Dalton (drums, Boston) will be joined this time by a special guest, New York-based musician and composer Shinya Lin on piano. The music of this quartet, heard here publicly for the first time, is uncompromising, thought-provoking, and beautiful.
Eva Novoa will play a solo piano concert during the first set.
Adam Lane Trio - 8 pm
Nick Lyons- alto sax
Vijay Anderson- drums
Adam Lane- bass
Temporary Fix + 2 - 9 pm
Virg Dzurinko- piano
Ryan Messina-Trumpet
Atsushi Ouchi- sax
Adam Lane- bass
Vijay Anderson- drums
$20
We ain’t afraid to throw down a groove while serving up some free jazz cocktails shaken and also stirred with equal parts Charlie Parker Billie holiday and Cecil Taylor with a slice of Bootsy Collins for deeezert
Michaël Attias - Alto Saxophone
Santiago Leibson - piano
Sean Conly - bass
Tom Rainey - drums
Sets at 8 and 9:30
$20
Celebrating the release of its debut CD, Kardamon Fall, Michaël Attias' latest project, is a shape-shifting quartet operating in the special zone of overlap between contemporary jazz and Post-Romanticism. Tonality radiates its strangest and most penetrating colors when it collapses: Autumn reds before the atonal Winter. The band features long-term collaborators and master musicicias Sean Conly and Tom Rainey and frequent partner-in-crime brillant Argentinian pianist Santiago Leibson.
Dada Bebop - 6pm
Elijah Shiffer - alto sax
Hayoung Lyou - piano
Dmitry Ishenko - bass
James Paul Nadien -drums
Quintet - 7pm
Jeff Pearring - alto sax
Ras Moshe Burnett - tenor sax
Ryan Messina - trumpet
Patrick Holmes - clarinet
Nick Lyons - alto sax
Los Primos - 8 pm
Gían Pérez - guitar
Manuel Joe Pérez III - wind instruments
Featuring:
Mobéy Lola Irizarry - percussion
$20
Pablo Masis - trumpet
Adam Hutcheson - saxophone
Santiago Leibson - piano
Aaron Holthus - bass
David Hawkins - drums
$20
Jason Robinson's Janus Ensemble - 8 pm
Jason Robinson - tenor and soprano saxophones, alto flute
Michael Dessen - trombone
Joshua White - piano
Drew Gress - bass
Ches Smith - drums, glockenspiel
$20
October 2024 U.S. northeast tour in support of the release of Ancestral Numbers I (Playscape, May 2024) and Ancestral Numbers II (Playscape, October 2024). www.jasonrobinson.com
@jasonrobinsonmusic
@jasonrobinsonmu
Michel Gentile - flute, alto flute, bass flute, piccolo
Tony Romano - guitar
$20
Carol Liebowitz/Claire De Brunner/Josh Sinton/Vijay Anderson - 1:30 pm
Carol Liebowitz - piano
Claire De Brunner - bassoon
Josh Sinton - baritone saxophone, alto flute
Vijay Anderson - drums
Kazzrie Jaxen - 2:30 pm
Kazzrie Jaxen - piano, vocals
Ursel Schlicht/Robert Dick Duo - 3:30 pm
Ursel Schlicht - piano
Robert Dick - flutes
In their latest project, Robert Dick and Ursel Schlicht are looking at the natural world and some of its phenomena as it responds to climate change. From ice sheets melting and icebergs calving to trees exchanging information and nutrients through their root systems, Dick and Schlicht themselves are responding impressionistically, both to the phenomena themselves and to their emotional resonance.
$20
Ken Kobayashi Quartet - 8 pm
Anthony Coleman - piano
Jeff Miles - guitar
Michael Gilbert - bass
Ken Kobayashi - drums
Horntet - 9 pm
Guillermo Gregorio - clarinet
Daniel Carter - multiple instruments
Jeff Pearring - alto sax
Ayumi Ishito - tenor sax
Stan Zenkov - multiple instruments
Amazan Audoine - trumpet
JOE MORRIS-GUITAR
JACQUELINE KERROD-HARP
IMPROVISED MUSIC FOR GUITAR AND HARP
$20
Nick Lyons and Vijay Anderson - 7:30 pm
Nick Lyons - alto saxophone
Vijay Anderson - guitar
Sam Ospovat Mat Maneri Raoul Björkenheim Tim Dahl - 8:15 pm
Sam Ospovat- drums
Mat Maneri - viola
Raoul Björkenheim - guitar
Tim Dahl - bass
Visiting from Helsinki, percussionist/composer Sam Ospovat leads a quartet of contemporary legends. Nick Lyons and Vijay Anderson bring their duo, which has been developing since 2018.
Michel Gentile - flute, alto flute, bass flute, piccolo,
Gary Versace - piano
Jerome Harris - bass
Billy Mintz - drums
$20
Eva Novoa solo piano - 7:30 pm
Eva Novoa - piano & Chinese gongs
Paul Bedal Quartet - 8:15 pm
Paul Bedal - Piano
Kenny Warren - Trumpet
Dion Kerr - Bass
Roberto Giaquinto - Drums
Pianist Paul Bedal leads a quartet with trumpeter Kenny Warren, bassist Dion Kerr, and drummer Roberto Giaquinto. Having played together in multiple contexts individually, this will mark the quartet's first show as a band. The unit will explore new original compositions as well as spontaneous improvisations. Eva Novoa will open the night with a solo piano set improvising on piano and Chinese gongs.
Ken Kobayashi Trio - 8pm
Megumi Yonezawa - piano
Masa Kamaguchi - bass
Ken Kobayashi - drums
Pearring Sound - 9pm
Jeff Pearring - alto sax
Colin Babcock - trombone
Matthew Putman - piano
Trevor Bajus - electronics
Reggie Sylvester - drums
Medeski Martin & Wood percussionist Billy Martin aka illy B will lead a 2-Day “bamboo music workshop” on September 28th & 29th (1-5 PM both days)
Participants will be provided with unique bamboo instruments (most specifically percussion and flutes) uniquely designed and built by Martin. The workshop will explore various strategies on collective interplay, polyphony, improvisation, textural sound making and rhythmic harmony (a strategy developed by Martin specifically for improvising music ensembles and music educators).
Entrance fee for this weekend workshop is $300. The workshop is 2 days. Inquiries for scholarship / sliding scale access, or any questions feel free to email gabby at flukemogul@creativemusic.org
Luciano Pagliarini Quartet - 8 pm
Luciano Pagliarini - saxophone
Joe Fonda - bass
Kenny Wessel - guitar
Lou Grassi - drums
MASA KAMAGUCHI/MICHEL GENTILE/ROB GARCIA - 9 pm
Masa Kamaguchi - bass
Michel Gentile - flutes
Rob Garcia - drums
This concert will present two bands, each featuring a premiere player on the European jazz scene making a rare NYC appearance. Luciano based in Luxembourg and Masa based in Barcelona, Spain.
$20
Matt Pavolka - Lead Bass
Masa Kamaguchi - Lead Bass
Pavogüchi is back and there's going to be trouble.
$20
Eva Novoa - piano & Chinese gongs
Masa Kamaguchi - bass
Satoshi Takeishi - drums
Pianist Eva Novoa leads this piano trio that has played together since 2017. Masa Kamaguchi is an incredible bassist, a friend and long time collaborator of Novoa's. They have recorded, performed live and toured for over a decade since Novoa's earlier years in Barcelona and in The Netherlands. He will be playing on bass. And Satoshi Takeishi is an amazing drummer who joined the trio in the spring of 2017 when this band performed live for the first time. This concert will get this special trio reunited! Very unique chance to see this rhythm section together.
$20
Yoon Sun Choi - voice/piano
Clara Kennedy - guitar/cello/voice
Samantha Kochis - flute
Kyoko Kitamura - voice/piano
$20
Korean-Canadian now American improvising vocalist and pianist, Yoon Sun Choi has been based in New York City since 2000. Her main musical projects are with her longtime collaborative duo with pianist Jacob Sacks and her solo voice/piano work. `Choi has performed and collaborated with renown artists such as Jane Ira Bloom, Samir Chatterjee, Steve Coleman, Mark Dresser, Mark Elias, Gerry Hemmingway, Darius Jones, D.D. Jackson, Oliver Lake, Mat Maneri, Ben Monder, the Tri-Centric Orchestra, Sarah Weaver, Kenny Werner and Kenny Wheeler. She has performed in some of the finest concert houses and music venues including The Blue Note, Birdland, The Stone, Roulette, The River Theater, Roy Thompson Hall and Carnegie Hall.
Juilliard-grad and multi-instrumentalist Clara Kennedy plays cello, guitar and sings. She has performed in venues such as The Bowery Ballroom, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Avery Fisher Hall, MoMA and Carnegie Hall. As a singer & guitar player she has performed extensively throughout the city - from regular Saturday nights at Mexican restaurants to opening for Goldfrapp at The Beacon Theater. She held the cello/guitar chairs on the Broadway musicals Groundhog Day and Kimberly Akimbo.
“Samantha Kochis is a Brooklyn-based flutist, improvisor, and composer who explores various creative environments as an artist of experimental music. In her creative works, Samantha draws from the tradition of avant-garde jazz and free improvisation to engage sonic conversations with listeners and collaborators alike. Samantha is the co-founder of “Phonotonic”, an artist collective dedicated to building community among experimental and improvising artists who share the experience of gender-based oppression.”
Kyoko Kitamura is a Brooklyn-based vocal improviser, composer, multi-disciplinary artist and educator. She co-leads the quartet Geometry with cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum, guitarist Joe Morris and cellist Tomeka Reid, as well as the trio Siren Xypher with violist Melanie Dyer and pianist Mara Rosenbloom. For over a decade, Kitamura collaborated extensively with composer Anthony Braxton, and is the creator of the documentary Introduction to Syntactical Ghost Trance Music which DownBeat Magazine calls “an invaluable resource for Braxton-philes." Multidisciplinary credits include Matthew Barney’s Secondary, Audra Wolowiec‘s (waves) and choreographer Rachel Bernsen’s Novel Formats. Kitamura is a visiting faculty at Bennington College.
LoveTrane Quartet - 8 pm
Eric Plaks (Piano)
Auumi Ishito (Tenor Sax)
Leco Reis (Bass)
Gauci/Lin/Gilbert/Kobayashi - 9 pm
Stephen Gauci (Tenor Sax)
Shinya Lin (Piano)
Michael Gilbert (Bass)
Ken Kobayashi (Drums)
$20
Alexa Barchini - voice
Caroline Davis - alto saxophone
Rez Abassi - guitar
Tony Scherr - bass
Rob Garcia - drums
$20
This project presents new music inspired by The Guest House, a poem by Jalaluddin Rumi. Each piece represents one of the many guests that pass through.
Mat Maneri viola
Eva Novoa piano & Chinese gongs
$20
Mat Maneri, a leading improvisational voice of his generation, began studying the violin at the age of five, but since borrowing a viola for a jam session at the 1998 ECM festival in Badenweiler, he has made the viola his instrument of choice. Important influences on Maneri’s work – in addition to all the major forces of jazz – include Baroque music (which he studied with Juilliard String Quartet co-founder Robert Koff), Elliott Carter, and the Second Viennese School of Schoenberg, Berg and Webern. He is joined by Brooklyn based (Barcelona born) pianist Eva Novoa here on piano and Chinese gongs to explore the duo format. This will be Maneri-Novoa's first live performance.
John McCutcheon, drums;
Andy Fite and Adam Caine, guitar
Nick Lyons, alto sax
Gene Perla, bass
Pay what you wish
Drummer John McCutcheon has assembled a group of longtime associates to enjoy and share the pleasures of spontaneous improvisation together with an audience. Brilliant guitarist Andy Fite is a special guest, visiting from Stockholm. Bassist Gene Perla (Elvin Jones, Nina Simone, Sarah Vaughan, etc) is a bonafide legend. Saxophonist Nick Lyons and guitarist Adam Caine are the core of McCutcheon's group, having played together in like contexts for nearly 20 years.
