TRANSPARENCY SERIES @INTERCOMM
Nov
18

TRANSPARENCY SERIES @INTERCOMM

The Transparency Series is a new series with audience participatory open rehearsal and performance.

open rehearsal: 6pm
performance:
8:30pm

$20

patrick brennan’s
transparency kestra

multidirectional creative music
A social & musical experiment in the possibilities of consensual self organization.

Transparencies
overlay
rhythmelodic patterns
that can be
recombined
in a decentralized way
though
improvisation and conducted signals.

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SSWH – Sara Schoenbeck & Wayne Horvitz
Mar
1

SSWH – Sara Schoenbeck & Wayne Horvitz

The Sara Schoenbeck and Wayne Horvitz duo navigate through original tunes and improvisatory soundscapes. With feet firmly planted in a genre-less zone, electronics and an ever-expanding textural palate serve to deepen the feel of a shared melodic language.

© Daniel Sheehan

@ Frank Rubolino


Composer, Pianist and Electronic Musician Wayne Horvitz is the recipient of numerous awards and commissions including the American Prize, the 2016 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award and created works for the Seattle Symphony, and the Vienna Radio Orchestra among others. Notable collaborators include Butch Morris, Bill Frisell, Reggie Watts, Gus Van Sant and Fontella Bass.

The Wire magazine places Sara Schoenbeck in the "tiny club of bassoon pioneers" at work
in contemporary music today and the New York Times has called her "riveting, mixing textural
experiments with a big, confident sound. Known for her work with Henry Threadgill, Anthony Braxton, Wayne Horvitz Gravitas Quartet and Nels Cline among others.

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TRANSPARENCY SERIES @INTERCOMM
Oct
28

TRANSPARENCY SERIES @INTERCOMM

The Transparency Series is a new series with audience participatory open rehearsal and performance.

open rehearsal: 6pm
performance:
8:30pm

$20

patrick brennan’s
transparency kestra

multidirectional creative music
A social & musical experiment in the possibilities of consensual self organization.

Transparencies
overlay
rhythmelodic patterns
that can be
recombined
in a decentralized way
though
improvisation and conducted signals.

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STEVE DYER QUARTET: FREEDOM MELODY
Oct
19

STEVE DYER QUARTET: FREEDOM MELODY

STEVE DYER QUARTET:
FREEDOM MELODY


Steve Dyer… is a visionary, a pioneer and a symbol of a new Africa.”
- Vasco Zama Ndebele, Cue magazine 

South African composer and saxophonist Steve Dyer presents his latest project Freedom Melody (co-commissioned by Lincoln Center, NY), alongside the celebration of his new album, Multipolar (Ropeadope, released on Oct 31st, 2025). The performance by the quartet, which includes the Kenyan pianist Aaron Rimbui, puts the spotlight on the rich heritage of South and Southern African vocal and instrumental music within a contemporary setting. 

40 years ago In Gaborone, Botswana, April 1985 a Freedom Melody festival was held. Musicians based in Botswana as well as other parts of Southern Africa and from other locations converged for a memorable weekend of cultural events headlined by Hugh Masekela and Jonas Gwangwa. The repertoire performed included vocal and instrumental music that was symbolic of the liberation struggle. Through this festival the power of music to become a decisive unifying force for change became apparent. 

2 months later on June 14th 1985 the apartheid SADF (South African Defence Force) raided Gaborone killing 12 people. The cultural initiatives over a number of years by the Medu Art Ensemble collective (who had organized the festival) were abruptly terminated as a result. 

In 2025 Steve Dyer releases an album where he reflects on the urgent need for new and/or alternative ways of thinking and acting. The title, Multipolar refers to the global world shift from the falsehood perception of a unipolar power dynamic world to one with many centers of decentralized spheres of influence and power. Parallel lives have always been lived but often unrecognized and/or marginalized. The music on Multipolar reflects different elements of Steve Dyer’s cultural makeup as an Anglo-African. Born into, and influenced and shaped by Africa, this music originates here and casts its creative eyes outward to a global world of accessibility and connection. We all have our stories to tell, and we can all learn from each other’s stories. 

Conceptualized by Steve Dyer, who was part of the original Freedom Melody, the concert promises to be a night of cultural intersection and celebration to remember. 


Biography:

Steve Dyer believes that no single culture owns the monopoly on human wisdom.  Every human life born into whatever culture, ethnicity or spiritual belief system has the same value.

Steve was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa in 1960. His parents listened consistently to music of the Western classical masters. He also remembers maskandi musicians walking the streets as they played their guitars, and the Soul Brothers and “kwela” playing on the radio. He began composing music at the age of 10. An all-rounded conceptual artist, he is a significant figure in South African music scene, contributing to its growth, both domestically and abroad.

He completed a B Mus degree in performance at the University of Natal in 1981, majoring in saxophone and flute. Refusing military conscription into the SADF Steve left South Africa and lived in Botswana for 5 years. Here he came into contact with the exile sounds blowing through the horns of Hugh Masekela and Jonas Gwangwa. He helped form “Shakawe” led by Jonas Gwangwa and played in the band for 3 years. In 1988 after a stint in the U.K. he settled in Zimbabwe where after releasing his debut album Southern Freeway (1989) he formed a group with that same name. “Indlela yenkululeko” was released in 1992. In 1990 he joined the Amandla cultural ensemble of the ANC on a 7 week tour of Japan.

With democracy on the horizon in 1993 Steve returned to South Africa. Steve has released 10 albums under his name, including the critically acclaimed “Genesis of a Different World” released in 2019, and the award-winning “Enhlizweni - song stories from my heartland” (Ropeadope / AfricArise 2024). He conceptualised the Southern African music “supergroup” Mahube that has been an ongoing touring collaboration since 1997. Steve has also composed “Rebirth” - a concerto for soprano saxophone, string quartets, music for saxophone and marimbas and more. Steve also has extensive producing experience including 6 albums for Oliver Mtukudzi (1998-2002) including the seminal Tuku music, as well as directing large and small scale concerts on the African continent and abroad. He continues to work on unique projects that reflect the current times, trace historical elements and tradition within the modernity. His most recent project “Visions of Ubuntu” - Lincoln Center at Damrosh Park, New York in June 2024 - featured an 8-piece band, guest vocalist Motswedi Modiba, and a 50-strong Young People’s Chorus of New York City.

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lone eagle/THE FOREST: Coyote Makes a World
Oct
17

lone eagle/THE FOREST: Coyote Makes a World

lone eagle/The Forest: Coyote Makes a World

As the central figure within Indigenous storytelling traditions of the Interior Northwest, Coyote navigates the tenuous and tumultuous present in Coyote Makes a World, a collaborative multimedia project between storyteller/vocalist čnaq’ymi (lone eagle) and The Forest, a cooperative percussion ensemble featuring Gustavo Aguilar, Leah Bowden, Andrew Drury, and Michael Wimberly. 

Centered on stories that embody the qualities of long held Native storytelling traditions, here Coyote encounters the contemporary crises of our times, oblivious to the consequences of his actions in ways that are familiar, unsettling, and often humorous. Set within a dynamic rhythmic landscape layered with songs and mesmerizing vocalizations, Coyote Makes a World reflects the world we’ve made while taking the listener to places they’ve never before encountered. 

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BURTON / COCHRANE / DRURY + JUMP OFF THIS BRIDGE
Oct
5

BURTON / COCHRANE / DRURY + JUMP OFF THIS BRIDGE

Jump Off This Bridge

Andrew Drury (photo © Reuben Radding)

Jill Burton (photo © Sandy Santos)

Chris Cochrane


BURTON / COCHRANE / DRURY
+ JUMP OFF THIS BRIDGE

7PM

JILL BURTON voice
CHRIS COCHRANE guitar
ANDREW DRURY percussion

8PM

JUMP OFF THIS BRIDGE
JUDITH INSELL viola
ELI ASHER trumpet
VIRG DZURINKO piano
+
ANDREW DRURY drum set (guest)

+ SOUP!

6:30 doors open
292 Lefferts Ave. Brooklyn
2/5 train to Sterling St.

$20 suggested donation

NOTAFLOF


JILL BURTON brings her voice and physical form as the two main tools of her trade. Her bio includes training in ballet and classical music at an early age, while having quickly developed an affinity for improvising in performance. Ms. Burton was a witness and participant in the profound cultural and interdisciplinary possibilities of the 1980′s arts renaissance that blossomed out of the then near-apocalyptic urban collapse and wholly non-commercial NYC/Lower East Side scene. She has spent more than fifteen years studying and practicing non-invasive medical modalities including Reiki, Ortho-Bionomy and Sound Healing. Burton’s improvised works manifest most often in wordless vocals, seemingly constructing invisible sonic architecture, both bordering the interior of a venue and transforming those same borders into transducers carrying vibrations. (Matt Gorney)

CHRIS COCHRANE is a songwriter and guitarist who has been playing in New York since the 1980s. Chris has played with Thurston Moore, Zeena Parkins, John Zorn, Marc Ribot, Billy Martin, Eszter Balint, Stew, James Chance, Mike Patton, Henry Kaiser, Andrea Centazzo, Annie Gosfield, Tim Hodgkinson, Miguel Frasconi, Richard Buckner, Davey Williams, Ladonna Smith and Jim Pugliese and many others.  He has composed music for Dennis Cooper, John Jasperse, Neil Greenberg, Nayland Blake, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Jennifer Monson and Circus Amok. He was in the bands No Safety and Curlew, and is currently works in several projects: Collapsible Shoulder with Brian Chase, Kato Hideki and Kevin Bud Jones, Alphawhore with Gordon Beeferman and Kevin Shea, a duo with Stuart Popejoy and periodically plays with the Chris Rael's Church of Betty.

ANDREW DRURY grew up near Seattle and mentored with Ed Blackwell from 1983-92. Drury has pioneered extended wind and friction techniques for drums, performing in 30 countries and on 80 recordings with musicians including Wadada Leo Smith, Myra Melford, Frank Lacy, Tomeka Reid, Annea Lockwood, Jason Kao Hwang, Satoko Fujii, Michel Doneda, and James Brandon Lewis. Drury has led over 1,500 workshops with vulnerable populations in shelters, prisons, Nicaraguan villages, refugee communities, and in 20 universities on three continents. He has produced over 200 Soup & Sound concerts every where from his home to Lincoln Center. He directs the non-profit organization, Continuum Culture & Arts.


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SOUP & SOUND @Aron’s Place (in Bushwick)
Sep
26

SOUP & SOUND @Aron’s Place (in Bushwick)

Aron Namenwirth

Welf Dorr

Avram Fefer

call for location 917.301.6680 or 917.828.4951

$20 suggested donation
No One Turned Away For Lack Of Funds

7 PM
ENTROPIC HOP
ARON NAMENWIRTH guitar, spoken word
AYUMI ISHITO saxophones
KEVIN SHEA drums


8 PM
WELF DORR GROUP
WELF DORR alto saxophone
LUKE GLAVANOVITS vibraphone
DMITRI ISHENKO bass
YUKO TOGAMI drums

 

9 PM
AVRAM FEFER GROUP
AVRAM FEFER saxophones
HILLIARD GREENE bass
MICHAEL WIMBERLY drums

 

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TRANSPARENCY SERIES @Starr Bar
Sep
16

TRANSPARENCY SERIES @Starr Bar

The Transparency Series is a new bi-monthly series with audience participatory open rehearsal and performance at the Starr Bar in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

open rehearsal: 6pm
performance:
7:30pm

$20

musicians
Ryan Easter - trumpet
Frank London - trumpet
Aaron Pond - French horn
Westbrook Johnson - trombone
Steve Swell - trombone
Haruna Fukazawa - flute & piccolo
Patrick Holmes - clarinet
Nick Gianni - bass clarinet & flute
Ras Moshe - bass clarinet & flute
Claire deBrunner - bassoon
Jessica Lurie - soprano saxophone
Josh Sinton - baritone saxophone
Shu Odumura, guitar
Sean Saville - guitar
David Sidman - guitar
Evan Palmer - contrabass
Andrew Drury - percussion
Colin Hinton - percussion
James Paul Nadien - percussion

patrick brennan - composition, conducting, alto saxophone


patrick brennan’s
transparency kestra

multidirectional creative music
A social & musical experiment in the possibilities of consensual self organization.

Transparencies
overlay
rhythmelodic patterns
that can be
recombined
in a decentralized way
though
improvisation and conducted signals.

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The FOREST: COYOTE MAKES A WORLD
Jul
20

The FOREST: COYOTE MAKES A WORLD

THE FOREST
COYOTE MAKES A WORLD

*special sneak peak performance


a collaboration with LONE EAGLE/čnaq'ymi (storytelling/vocals)

THE FOREST: GUSTAVO AGUILAR, LEAH BOWDEN, ANDREW DRURY, MICHAEL WIMBERLY (percussion, electronics, vocals)

+ SOUP! (peach gazpacho)

Sunday, July 20
door opens 6:30 
music starts at 7

BYOB (feel free to bring food or drink to share)

292 Lefferts Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11225

$20 suggested donation

COYOTE MAKES A WORLD is a multimedia performance ritual that interweaves Native American and other musical traditions using percussion, storytelling, song, electronic music, and projected photographic and video imagery. 

Performed by The Forest —a cooperative percussion ensemble consisting of Gustavo Aguilar, Leah Bowden, Andrew Drury, and Michael Wimberly—in collaboration with Native storyteller/musician čnaq’ymi (lone eagle) Coyote Makes a World explores a contemporary world in environmental and political crisis. Lone Eagle’s insightful reworking of his Spokan people’s traditional Coyote stories, music, and concept of ceremony brings a powerful, healing perspective to audience members of all backgrounds.

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TERRY JENOURE FLAME TRIO
Jul
12

TERRY JENOURE FLAME TRIO

TERRY JENOURE FLAME TRIO

TERRY JENOURE violin / vocals
JOE FONDA bass
REGGIE NICHOLSON drums

TICKETS

$20 advance / $25 after July 9


Dr. Terry Jenoure, musician, writer, visual artist, educator was born and raised in the South Bronx into a Puerto Rican and Jamaican family. The composer, violinist & vocalist has performed and lectured throughout five continents.  Her music has earned numerous grants, most recently from New England Foundation for the Arts (2022), Massachusetts Cultural Council (2021), and South Arts Jazz Road Creative Residencies (2021). A self-taught visual artist, Terry has exhibited internationally.

As an academic, her writing has been published extensively. Her book NAVIGATORS: African American Musicians, Dancers, and Visual Artists in Academe (SUNY Press) as well as articles and essays are referenced by over forty international scholars. Holding Masters and Doctoral degrees in Education, Terry was an adjunct faculty member at Lesley University for eighteen years, while also serving as Director of Augusta Savage Gallery (University of Massachusetts) for thirty years. She leads creative writing workshops online, and as an independent arts-based researcher has conducted trainings in South Africa, Mexico, India, Israel, Colombia.

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ADEGOKE STEVE COLSON & IQUA COLSON QUARTET
Jul
11

ADEGOKE STEVE COLSON & IQUA COLSON QUARTET

Photo by Christopher Drukker

Adegoke Steve Colson
& Iqua Colson Quartet

ADEGOKE STEVE COLSON, composer/piano
IQUA COLSON composer/vocals
MARK HELIAS bass
RONNIE BURRAGE drums

TICKETS

$20 advance / $25 after July 9


Referred to as a “musical power couple” in The New York Times, (2017) the music of composer-pianist Adegoke Steve Colson and composer-vocalist Iqua Colson focuses on many facets of the human experience. Early members of the famed AACM, their critically acclaimed performances and recordings illuminate social issues, and have featured such innovators as Reggie Workman, David Murray, Tyshawn Sorey, Joseph Jarman, Oliver Lake, Tomeka Reid and Henry Threadgill, as well as master artists of other disciplines including dancer/choreographer Savion Glover, writer/activist Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and dancer/actress Carmen de Lavallade.

Iqua worked with tenor saxophone titan Fred Anderson for several years in her early career in a group that included George Lewis, Hamid Drake and Douglas Ewart. Her compositions usually center around vocal performance.

Ade is a decorated composer who has written for large and small ensembles and received several honors and commissions supporting his work in music composition. He has worked and recorded with such artists as Baikida Carroll, Butch Morris and David Murray. His works for small ensembles have been recorded by such greats as bassist Richard Davis, composer and trumpeter Hannibal and most recently by Andrew Cyrille on his ECM Release, “The News.”

The Colsons latest release "Glow: Music for Trio...Add Voice" featuring Mark Helias and Andrew Cyrille will be fully released in August 2025. In 2024, The Northwestern University Libraries purchased The Adegoke Steve Colson and Iqua Colson Archives, including scores, compositions, and artifacts relative to the first 50 years of their varied and prolific careers: an honor, as they are now documented at Ade’s alma-mater, in one of the largest and most venerated music collections in the United States, known for unmatched strength in contemporary music. Adegoke Steve Colson is a Steinway Artist.

Mark Helias is a renowned bassist and composer who has performed throughout the world for more than three decades. He began his international career in the Anthony Braxton Quartet. Up to the present time he has performed with a panoply of world class artists including: Edward Blackwell, Dewey Redman, Abbey Lincoln, Marilyn Crispell, Julius Hemphill, Bobby Bradford, Ray Anderson, Don Cherry, and Cecil Taylor.

Ronnie Burrage is considered to be one of the best in the business at his craft. He has toured all four continents from Siberia to South Africa to Japan. He has graced stages with the who’s who of jazz such as Wayne Shorter, Sonny Rollins, Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, Wallace Roney, Jackie & Rene McLean, James Moody, Gary Bartz, Archie Shepp, Joe Zawinul, and McCoy Tyner. Throughout his illustrious career he has been featured on over 100 recordings.

colsonsmusic.com

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GWEN LASTER'S NEW MUSE 4TET
Jul
10

GWEN LASTER'S NEW MUSE 4TET

Gwen Laster's New Muse 4tet

GWEN LASTER violin/composer
MELANIE DYER viola/composer
TEDDY RANKIN-PARKER cello/composer
ANDREW DRURY drums/percussion

Original music inspired by African mythology, social justice, current events and the African Diaspora lexicon.

TICKETS

$20 advance / $25 after July 9


Gwen Laster is a Guggenheim fellow and award winning creative violin player and conceptual composer. Her devotion to exploring creative writings, readings, spirituality and current events inspire adventurous compositions rooted in the African Diaspora and other Global cultures.

Melanie Dyer is a Jerome fellow who performs and composes in creative, improvised and through-composed music spheres.

Teddy Rankin Parker is an American cellist specializing in improvisation and avant-garde music.

Andrew Drury is a drummer, improviser, composer, bandleader and presenter. producer, educator, and a pioneer of extended techniques for percussion.

MUSIC AVAILABLE ON BANDCAMP


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DIRT FREQUENCIES @ SOUP & SOUND: a deep dive into soiled sounds with Tessa Brinckman, Scott L. Miller, and Jane Rigler
Jun
25

DIRT FREQUENCIES @ SOUP & SOUND: a deep dive into soiled sounds with Tessa Brinckman, Scott L. Miller, and Jane Rigler

Dirt Frequencies @ Soup & Sound: a deep dive into soiled sounds with Tessa Brinckman, Scott L. Miller, and Jane Rigler 

6:30 PM - Social Hour (enjoy food, drink, company)
7:30 PM - Concert starts

$20 (includes food & drinks)

TICKETS

This performance will take place in Upper Washington Heights, NYC
(near W 191st St Subway #1 Train)

Address will be provided with ticket purchase


TESSA BRINCKMAN and JANE RIGLER: flutes, electronics, and miscellanea
SCOTT L. MILLER: Kyma and Onde resonator

Dirt Frequencies is a collaboratively composed, concert-length work. It combines electroacoustic music, text, and Deep Listening®, inviting the audience into the sonic environment, responding to their present body, dreams, and imagination.

Based on the growing processes of a garden, this concert is part of an on-going series that develops over time. Sound sources being dispersed will emerge from present sounds as well as those we’ve collected from the earth and all the microbial organisms living in the soil. We consider all the bodies that release and absorb sound—the land, the water, the air, plants, and human-made materials, and our bodies—as sound sources. Water is the tissue that connects us between these processes.


This event is co-presented with Anti-Social Music


Interdisciplinary flutist/composer TESSA BRINCKMAN has been praised for her “virtuoso elegance” (Gramophone). Originally from Aotearoa/New Zealand, her work honors synesthesia, dialect, innate meter, and collaboration. Tessa co-directs the bi-coastal duo, Caballito Negro, commissioning ground-breaking work for flute and percussion.

JANE RIGLER, flutist/composer/educator/organizer and Deep Listening® facilitator, explores the complexities of language (of the body, dream, landscape) through the flute, electronics, voice, and movement. A former interdisciplinary music Professor at the University of Colorado, she continues to perform world-wide, organizing sound spas, and arts-wellness events.

Minnesota composer/improviser SCOTT L. MILLER’s music is defined by an experimental aesthetic, collaborative approaches to composition and performance, and the use of electronic sound. In addition to being a Professor of music at St. Cloud State University, he is Director of SEAMUS Records.

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5 BANDS (noise/electronics): Flose, Bathtub, A.B.E.L.A., United Noise Night, Allium
May
31

5 BANDS (noise/electronics): Flose, Bathtub, A.B.E.L.A., United Noise Night, Allium

S(O)UPERF(&SO)UND

FLOSE
BATHTUB
A.B.E.L.A.
UNTITLED NOISE NIGHT
ALLIUM

An unforgettable start to the summer full of sonic exploration, skillsharing & radical movement learning, delicious food, and community building.

Allium will kick the night off weaving together site specific field recordings, harsh noise, and moments of ear candy rhythmic release. Bathtub will bring us deeper with a full set of hydrophone based sounds transporting us into the water world. A.B.E.L.A. will launch our bodies into euphoric, otherworldly planes of groove with a live drums/hardware set. Flose will explode the sonic potential of toys and non-instruments, and Untitled Noise Night will take us home with a set sure to leave ear drums ringing and our hearts beating deeper for days to come.

The Living Gallery
1094 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY 11221

$10-30
nobody turned away for lack of funds

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AHMED ABDULLAH’s DIASPORA
May
24

AHMED ABDULLAH’s DIASPORA

AHMED ABDULLAH’s DIASPORA

a tribute to Sun Ra and Malcolm X

AHMED ABDULLAH trumpet/flugelhorn/voice
MONIQUE NGOZI NRI poetry/voice
DON CHAPMAN saxophone
D. D. JACKSON piano
NORBERT MARIUS bass
WARREN "TRAE" CRUDUP multi-percussion/drums

$20 suggested donation
includes soup!

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SOUP & SOUND YOUTH SERIES: Ezra Moran Quartet
May
18

SOUP & SOUND YOUTH SERIES: Ezra Moran Quartet

SOUP & SOUND YOUTH SERIES

EZRA MORAN QUARTET
EZRA MORAN electric guitar
JOSHUA QUDDUS winds
SEDGE GREEN bass
HENRY KREX drums

2:30pm

Come anytime after 1pm to hang and bring something to grill.
We will have condiments, buns, and more.
 

292 Lefferts Ave.
Brooklyn, NY

sliding scale $0-$10
NOTAFLOF

This group of young musicians will perform original music inspired by Ornette Coleman, Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht, Archie Shepp, and contemporary popular music.


Ezra Moran is an 18-year-old guitarist and composer. He spent his early teens studying classical composition with an emphasis on modernism and serialism. Later, he studied jazz with Peter Apfelbaum and Jerome Harris, and was a part of various youth ensembles, including the Jazz at Lincoln Center Youth Orchestra.

Joshua Quddus is a 16-year-old alto saxophonist, bandleader, and composer. He has performed at many prestigious stages such as Dizzy’s Club, Carnegie Hall, Birdland, The Appel Room, and more. 

Sedge Green is a 19-year-old bassist, currently studying at the New School. He has a wide range of performance experience, having played at festivals such as the North Sea jazz festival, Umbria Jazz festival, SFJazz festival, and more.

Henry Krex is a drummer from Providence, Rhode Island. He is currently studying jazz at NYU. 


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MARK DRESSER & DOYEON KIM + ALEJANDRO FLOREZ, DANIEL BLAKE, SATOSHI TAKEISHI
May
10

MARK DRESSER & DOYEON KIM + ALEJANDRO FLOREZ, DANIEL BLAKE, SATOSHI TAKEISHI

MARK DRESSER bass
DOYEON KIM gayageum

Mark Dresser is an internationally renowned and Grammy nominated bass player, improviser, composer, and interdisciplinary collaborator. At the core of his music is an artistic obsession to expand the sonic and musical possibilities of the double bass through the use of unconventional amplification and extended techniques.

DoYeon Kim is a forward-thinking gayageum performer, composer, and improviser forging a contemporary vision for Korean music. Her improvisational and ensemble work reveals a unique musical voice shaped by a lifetime of listening and exploration.

ALEJANDRO FLOREZ guitar
DANIEL BLAKE saxophones
SATOSHI TAKEISHI drums

album release party!

Mayday Space
176 St. Nicholas Ave.
Brooklyn NY

L train DeKalb Stop
$20 suggested donation
(sorry no soup this time)

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AYAKO KANDA & ELLIOTT SHARP + MEGHA RAWOOT & ANDREW DRURY 
May
9

AYAKO KANDA & ELLIOTT SHARP + MEGHA RAWOOT & ANDREW DRURY 

MEGHA RAWOOT sitar, voice (from Mumbai)
ANDREW DRURY amplified floor tom


AYAKO KANDA voice (from Japan)
ELLIOTT SHARP guitar 

The barking, chirping, whirring and melodic vocalist from Japan, Ayako Kanda, joins legendary multi-instrumentalist Elliott Sharp in a duo not to be missed.



Mayday Space
176 St. Nicholas Ave., Brooklyn
L train DeKalb Stop

$20 suggested donation
includes soup!

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Chris jonas deserts quartet
Mar
15

Chris jonas deserts quartet

CHRIS JONAS DESERTS QUARTET

CHRIS JONAS reeds, compositions, video
THOMAS HEBERER cornet
CYRUS CAMPBELL bass
ANDREW DRURY drum set

soup at 7:30, music at 8



Music from the Deserts is a project of Santa Fe-based composer/sax player Chris Jonas, featuring Thomas Heberer on cornet, bassist Cyrus Campbell and drummer Andrew Drury.

Deserts explores music written in complete solitude during winter camping over 3 years during the Pandemic, created in Arizona's Barry Goldwater Missile Range adjacent to the Trump Border Wall that cuts across Arizona's granite Tinajas Altas. This collection of music is in the midst of touring worldwide in 2023-25. Jonas’s music contains some elements of jazz while mixing elements that are quirky, delicate, weirdly groovy, polyphonic, and a mixture of the disjointed and melodic.

Biographies

Chris Jonas, reeds, compositions, video

Santa Fe-based Jonas has been a long time and very active artistic figure in the creative music world, working as a collaborator in video, conducting and performing with Anthony Braxton (with whom he has recorded dozens of albums, conducted orchestras, produced operas and large scale events, and toured extensively), Cecil Taylor (1996-98 as performer and musical director), William Parker (as a member of Little Huey 1992-2001), and touring across the EU as a member of the Anthony Braxton Saxophone Quartet in 2022 which was just released as a four record set Sax QT (Lorraine). He is currently working in the EU and US with an array of projects, including leading the Fronterossa Open Lab with bassist Sylvia Bolognese and Toscana Produzione Musica, conducting three movements of new Desert compositions with a 37 person creative orchestra in Pisa, Italy, tours with Desert project ensembles in Italy, Germany, UK and Sweden, with Myra Melford on a series of video and music pieces about painter Cy Twombly, and with Anthony Braxton in a variety of ensembles, including a concert at the Library of Congress March 8, 2025. He is co-founder of the Santa Fe-based multi arts non-profit, Little Globe (www.littleglobe.org) and won the United States Artists Award in 2009.

www.chrisjonascreative.com | www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Jonas

 

Thomas Heberer, cornet

Time Out New York called him "an innovator," The Penguin Guide to Jazz "outstandingly gifted," and pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach "our new trumpet genius." Thomas Heberer, born 1965 in Schleswig, Germany, started playing the trumpet at age 11. From 1984 to 1987, he studied under Manfred Schoof at the Cologne University of Music. He has performed in 70 countries on 6 continents; was a lecturer at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts (1993-97); and can be heard on approximately 150 recordings. Honors include receiving the prestigious SWR Jazzpreis in 1990, and being awarded the Down Beat Critics Poll as a member of the ICP Orchestra in 2002. Wim Wenders' feature-length dance movie Pina, winner of the 2011 European Film Award, includes music Thomas contributed to Ten Chi, a choreography by Pina Bausch. Besides his ongoing work with the ICP Orchestra, Heberer maintains a busy performance and recording schedule with numerous New York City based ensembles, among them the Nu Band, Remedy and the Angelica Sanchez Nonet.

www.thomasheberer.com

 

Andrew Drury, drums

There is no doubt that Andrew Drury is one of most innovative and bold drummers on the

modern music scene. (Hrayr Attarian, All About Jazz). Andrew Drury is a drummer, improviser, composer, bandleader, producer, educator, and a pioneer of extended techniques for percussion. Rooted in a fascination for Jazz and African-diasporic creativity that began in childhood, and further inspired by a nearly decade-long mentorship with the drummer Ed Blackwell, Drury’s work engages with tradition while exploring the infinite. He has worked with artists such as Kris Davis, Michel Doneda, Mark Dresser, Peter Evans, Satoko Fujii, Jason Kao Hwang, Earl Howard, Howard Johnson, Ku-umba Frank Lacy, Ingrid Laubrock, Annea Lockwood, Myra Melford, J. D. Parran, Tomeka Reid, Roswell Rudd, Elliott Sharp, and Wadada Leo Smith, to name a few. Originally from Seattle, he lives in Brooklyn.

www.andrewdrurymusic.com

 

 Cyrus Campbell, acoustic bass

Having moved to New York City late 2024, Cyrus has been New Mexico's fastest rising performing artists, performing with many of the region's greatest musicians, including Eddie Daniels, James Emery, Alex Murzyn, Donald Bailey, John Trentacosta and many others. He has performed all over the US as well as the southwest region.

 
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ROBERT DICK & STEPHAN HALUSKA
Jan
25

ROBERT DICK & STEPHAN HALUSKA

ROBERT DICK, flutes
STEPHAN HALUSKA, harp

flute and harp like you've never heard!

soup at 7:30, music at 8


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Robert Dick has played at many Soup & Sounds. He is a "creative virtuoso in the tradition of Hendrix and Paganini," an improvisor, composer, author and teacher, inventor. He is known worldwide for redefining the flute, for creating revolutionary visions of its musical role to stand alongside the flute's established musics. Here he is joined by Cleveland harp explorer, Stephan Haluska. Viewing the harp as a frequently misunderstood and underrepresented instrument in contemporary music, Haluska often rejects conventional modes of playing in favor of finding new ways to expand his sound palette.

292 Lefferts Ave 
Brooklyn 

$20 suggested donation

 
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TERRY JENOURE FLAME TRIO + ANDREW DRURY TENTET
Jun
29

TERRY JENOURE FLAME TRIO + ANDREW DRURY TENTET

SOUP & SOUND 200 (part 1)
@ ZÜRCHER GALLERY

TERRY JENOURE FLAME TRIO
TERRY JENOURE violin/vocals
with JOE FONDA bass
REGGIE NICHOLSON drums

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ANDREW DRURY TENTET
with
JASON KAO HWANG violin
STEPHANIE GRIFFIN viola
THOMAS HEBERER coronet
JD PARRAN multi-winds
BRIGGAN KRAUSS alto sax,guitar
FRANK LACY trombone
ALEXIS MARCELO piano
CHRISTOPHER HOFFMAN cello
KEN FILIANO bass
ANDREW DRURY percussion

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