Doors 7pm, music 8pm
Full dinner menu available, seating first-come first-served
SAM WEINBERG Website
NATE WOOLEY Website
saxophone & trumpet duo
Jessica Pavone Website
solo viola
Chris Williams Website
Alex Zhang Hungtai Website
duo
tunes by Reign / portraits by Nia G
Doors 7:30pm, full dinner and cocktail menu available, seating first come, first served
2 SETS 8:30PM & 9:45PM
The return of SHEKWOAGA WITH STRINGS
RIYL: blockbusters, main events, jazz fusion
Michael Shekwoaga Ode – drums
Andy Berman – guitar
Matt Sewell – guitar
Mwanzi Harriot – guitar
Butler Knowles – bass
A student of the iconic Billy Hart, Ode tours the globe as a member of contemporary jazz luminary ensembles led by Theo Croker, Isaiah Collier, Peter Evans, and more.
+ all night selector Shara Lin
7pm doors 8pm music, full dinner menu available, seating is first come first-served
performing live in the back room
verolís
is a new project led by composer and bassist, Kenneth Jiménez, and also features Ingrid Laubrock on tenor saxophone and Christopher Hoffman (cello). The trio moves between written music and improvisation, allowing them to explore a wide range of textures and sounds to create shape and form throughout their set. The band takes its name after the flower of the sugar cane plant that blooms during harvesting season. Jiménez draws inspiration from these images that inhabit his earliest memories to put together this band and create this music.
Moritz/Ali/Coast
photo by azumi oe
Jonathan Moritz, Sean Ali, and Carlo Costa have been playing together since 2013 in a variety of ensembles. Since 2017 the three have been performing as a collective trio and over time have honed a distinctive band sound. One of the primary pursuits of the band is to inhabit and explore the acoustic space they perform in. The trio generally never utilizes any amplification and more often than not performs in DIY spaces that are not meant for concerts. By establishing a fragile yet palpable atmosphere the band activates the space and gradually draws the audience into its pool of sound.
$15 at the door (cash/Venmo, no advance tickets)
7pm back room opens; Full dinner service & cocktail menu available; Seating first come, first serve
2 sets of original music: 8pm & 9:30pm
Alain Métrailler – saxophone
Walter Stinson – bass
Elias Stemeseder – piano
Eric McPherson – drums
$15 suggested donation, cash/Venmo/Cash App accepted at the door (no advance tickets)
An edition of Sam Weinberg’s 2024 back room residency
7pm doors, 8pm music
heavy florals is a bi-monthly showcase that makes space for a community of POC musicians & their allies to exhale curated by Shara Lunon + HF5 in conjunction with Brackish Brooklyn
performing live in the back room
Holland Andrews & yuniya edi kwon
Holland Andrews (they/them) is a vocalist, composer, music producer, and performer whose work focuses on the abstraction of operatic and extended-technique voice to build cathartic and dissonant soundscapes. Andrews arranges music for voice, clarinet, and electronics and frequently highlights themes surrounding vulnerability and healing. Andrews harnesses these instruments’ innate qualities of power and elegance to serve as a cohesive vessel for these themes. As a vocalist, their influences stem from a dynamic range including contemporary opera, theater, and jazz, while also cultivating their own unique vocal style which integrates these influences with language disintegration, vocal distortion, and environmental ambience. Andrews previously performed solo music under the stage name Like a Villain. In addition to creating solo work, Andrews composes and performs for dance, theater, and film, and their work is toured nationally and internationally with artists such as Bill T. Jones, Dorothee Munyaneza, Will Rawls, Sonya Tayeh, Jenn Freeman, and poet Demian Dinéyazhi. Notable musical collaborations include Son Lux, Christina Vantzou, William Brittelle, Methods Body, West Thordson, Peter Broderick, Darian Donovan Thomas, and Nils Frahm. Website
yuniya edi kwon (aka eddy kwon) is a violinist, vocalist, poet, and interdisciplinary performance artist based in Lenapehoking, or New York City. Her practice connects composition, improvisation, movement, and ceremony to explore transformation & transgression, ritual practice as a tool to queer space & lineage, and the use of mythology to connect, obscure, and reveal. In addition to an evolving, interdisciplinary solo practice, she collaborates with artists of diverse disciplines, including The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Senga Nengudi, Du Yun, Tomeka Reid, International Contemporary Ensemble, Kenneth Tam, and Degenerate Art Ensemble. She has performed alongside Roscoe Mitchell, Mary Halvorson, Moor Mother, Nicole Mitchell, Cory Smythe, Satomi Matsuzaki, and others. In 2023, she founded SUN HAN GUILD, a sound and performance collective with composer-improvisers Laura Cocks, Jessie Cox, DoYeon Kim, and Lester St. Louis. She is a recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Robert Rauschenberg Award in Music/Sound, an Arts Fellow at Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts, a Civitella Ranieri Fellow, and a United States Artists Ford Fellow.
Scott Li
Scott Li is an NYC-based classically trained violinist, composer, producer, improviser, filmmaker, recording engineer, and sound artist blending Romantic classical chamber music tradition with emotive experimental electronic music. Li‘s music is first and foremost epistolary—love letters to the world and the people around us, the memories we share, and the feelings we carry with us.
+ DJ Sunny Cheeba all night
Sunny Cheeba, a wondrous spirit of Boricua descent, is a Native New Yorker born and raised in The Bronx. Most known for her role in Co-Founding DJ Collective Uptown Vinyl Supreme, she has easily given herself a name in the underground music scene. Cheeba’s selections weave a spellbinding tapestry gathering inspiration from the timeless grooves of Soul, Funk, and Disco, to the rhythmic magic of House, Hip-Hop, and R&B, to the diasporic beats of Salsa, Reggae, Baile Funk & Dembow.
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7pm doors 8pm music, seating first come first serve
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Isaiah Collier – woodwinds
Michael Shekwoaga Ode – drums
Isaiah Collier is a Chicago/Brooklyn based multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, curator and educator. His approach draws from master saxophonists such as John Coltrane, Roscoe Mitchell, and Wayne Shorter. “Cosmic Transitions” – his most recent album with The Chosen Few – received 5 stars from Downbeat magazine. He is a former fellow of the Dave Brubeck Institute, and one of the last musicians to work with the late Rudy Van Gelder.
Michael Shekwoaga Ode is an Nigerian-american drummer, composer, and educator. A student of Music and Drum Icon Billy Hart, Ode has been blessed to tour, record, play, and study with some of the most iconic and innovative artists in the history of music. Michael is now living in NYC playing around the city with various ensembles and touring internationally.
special opening set by Chris Williams (solo trumpet)
+ all night selector: Mister Lem