Photo by Desmond White

2024

  • Sun
    21
    Jan
    2024

    Alex LoRe & Weirdear

    2-3pm

    Ossining Public Library
    53 Croton Ave.
    Ossining, NY 10562

    With Glenn Zaleski (piano), Des White (bass), and Allan Mednard (drums). Free Concert:
    https://ossining.librarycalendar.com/event/sunday-afternoon-concert-series-659

  • Sat
    03
    Feb
    2024

    SCMEA Day of Jazz Adjudication

    8am-1pm
  • Fri
    09
    Feb
    2024

    Lucia della Paolera: Spirit and Soul Become Confused

    8pm

    Roulette
    509 Atlantic Ave
    Brooklyn, NY 11217

    Tickets: https://ci.ovationtix.com/36368/production/1184941?performanceId=11390390

    Child of the Church (COTC) Productions, co-founded by director and vocalist Lucia della Paolera and composer Gobby, presents Spirit and Soul Become Confused. Drawing its title from J. S. Bach’s 1726 sacred cantata (Geist und Seele wird verwirret) for contralto, BWV 35, this staged music performance in two parts for fourteen musicians weaves together radically rearranged baroque, classical, folk, pop, and electronic music into a cohesive tapestry. The performance features original costumes, set, choreography, and laser projections inspired by the cantata’s libretto.

    In Part 1, the cantata is reorchestrated by della Paolera, Gobby, and cellist Timothy Rusterholz to include synthesizers, saxophones, clarinet, drums, string quartet, bass, trumpet, and mezzo-soprano. Using the miracles described in the cantata as a catalyst, COTC injects new music and choreography directly into Bach’s composition, stretching open the piece to give space to new sounds and connotations. In Part 2, the performers, now joined by harp and guitar, navigate through a maze of sorrows in many shades—from somber to clownish, personal to communal. Original compositions by COTC musicians Gobby (trumpet), Timothy Rusterholz (cello), and Jake Dester (alto saxophone) are interwoven with reorchestrated renditions of works by George Frederic Handel, Georg Philipp Telemann, Luciano Berio, Juaquín Rodrigo, Roland Dyens, and Rafael. Fusing a wide range of music, old and new, Spirit and Soul Become Confused is a trance-like, continually mutating, and expansive work.

  • Sat
    30
    Mar
    2024

    Annie Chen "Guardians" Album Release

    8pm

    Brooklyn Conservatory of Music
    58 7th Ave
    Brooklyn, NY 11217

  • Sun
    21
    Jul
    2024
    Sun
    28
    Jul
    2024

    Corvus New Music Ensemble: Composing in the Wilderness Residency

    TBD

    Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival
    Fairbanks, Alaska

  • Mon
    29
    Jul
    2024
    Fri
    02
    Aug
    2024

    Music in the Wild

    TBD

    Performances around Alaska, premiering works by composer Michael Dickerson.

  • Thu
    08
    Aug
    2024
    Sat
    17
    Aug
    2024

    Aubrey Johnson Group West Coast Tour

    TBD

    August 9th: The Royal Room — Seattle WA
    August 10th: House Concert — Los Angeles CA
    August 11th: Portola Vineyards Summer Series — Portola, CA
    August 14th: Back Room — Berkeley, CA
    August 15th: House Concert — Healdsburg, CA
    August 16th: California Jazz Conservatory (CJC) — Berkeley, CA
    August 17th: Soper Reese Theater — Lakeport, CA

  • Mon
    19
    Aug
    2024

    Alex LoRe & Weirdear

    6:30-830pm

    Ornithology
    Brooklyn, NY

  • Mon
    26
    Aug
    2024
    Sat
    31
    Aug
    2024

    Avaloch Farms Composing Residency

    N/A
  • Sat
    14
    Sep
    2024

    Yuhan Su Group

    7:30-10:30pm

    The Jazz Gallery
    New York, NY

  • Wed
    25
    Sep
    2024

    Saxophone Summit

    7:30-10pm

    Feat. Melissa Aldana, Dayna Stephens, Glenn Zaleski, Or Bareket, Kush Abadey

    Smalls Jazz Club
    183 W 10th Street
    New York, NY

  • Sat
    05
    Oct
    2024

    Alex LoRe — "Motivity" Album Release

    7:30-10:30pm

    The Jazz Gallery
    New York, NY

    Ben Street (bass); Johnathan Blake (drums)

  • Thu
    10
    Oct
    2024

    Aubrey Johnson Group

    7pm

    Montclair State University 

  • Sat
    02
    Nov
    2024

    Alex LoRe 4

    8-11pm

    Bar Bayeux
    Brooklyn, NY

  • Sat
    09
    Nov
    2024

    Aubrey Johnson Group

    8pm-11pm

    Bar Bayeux
    Brooklyn, NY

  • Sun
    01
    Dec
    2024

    Jazzheaven.com LIVE Masterclass

    1pm-3pm