past events
JANUARY 27
Kamikaze Ground Crew (8:30) / Frank London’s ¡No Pasarán! (7:00) - Saturday, Jan 27
Sets begin at 7 & 8:30. Kamikaze Ground Crew - originally formed to accompany the Flying Karamazov Brothers for their more extended theatrical productions, this band became the vehicle for co-leaders Doug Wieselman and Gina Leishman’s original compositions and arrangements.
Frank London’s newest project is the brass trio with percussion ¡No Pasarán! The group was formed to perform London’s score for Jody Oberfelder’s dance piece, Rube G., and has included many of NY’s best players. They have performed around NYC and at Boston’s Revolutionary Voices Festival, where they played a special program of reinvented early American Fife & Drum music.
JANUARY 28
Trio Froopy - dubby bone situation with Kang Froopy, Jon Maron and Jason Nazary / Jan 28, 3:30
Join us January 28 at 3:30pm for Toy Store Sessions 10 featuring the prolific bassist Jonathan Maron & Josh Roseman of Groove Collective, in a colorful encounter with sound artist / drummer extraordinaire Jason Nazary.
Josh Roseman AKA Ras Crayola or Kang Froopy is a low brass worker heavily influenced by spectralism, dub and harmolodics.
Jonathan Maron is one of the musical, dynamic and creative bassists orbited by the moon.
Jason Nazary is an original rhythmic thinker blending electronic and acoustic timbres, drawing influence from Tony Williams to J Dilla to Morton Feldman to Lightning Bolt.
JANUARY 7
Peter Apfelbaum Hieroglyphics Quartet - Toy Store Sessions 7
Join us January 7th at 3pm for an afternoon of music, Toy Store Sessions 07, featuring the mighty Peter Apfelbaum, Josh Roseman, Noah Garabedian, and Marcelo Perez. Peter Apfelbaum is an American jazz saxophonist, pianist, drummer, and composer. Apfelbaum is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist who has s worked with artists as diverse as Don Cherry, Kronos Quartet, Omar Sosa and Phish.
JANUARY 13
WINTER JAZZ FEST
Winter Jazz Fest, annual marathon of forward favorites, is coming up, Jan 10-18th, the evening of the 13th at Loove Labs featuring Anna Webber, Kate Gentile, Simon Moullier, and Roy Nathanson’s 82 Days.