Weekly Jam Sessions by ShapeShifter+ Wednesdays
Weekly Jam Sessions by ShapeShifter+ Wednesdays 9:30p-11:30p No cover charge Time to have fun again at SSL! It’s been a while since we hosted jam sessions at ShapeShifter Lab...
May 9 – Strange and Beautiful – Art Reception
Strange and Beautiful Shuto Okayasu, Sungjin Lee SUNGJIN LEE & SHUTO OKAYASU Joint Exhibition STRANGE AND BEAUTIFUL May 9 – 31, 2015, 7-10:30pm Opening Reception: Saturday, May 9,...
May 15 – Flame Axis
Flame Axis 7p $10 Alex Cummings-soprano/alto sax Caroline Davis-alto sax Arnold Lee-tenor sax Ben Katz-bari sax Jake Silverman-keyboards Tamir Shmerling-bass Mike King-drums Tweet
May 15 – Tall Tales of Jasper County: The Double Doubles Suite (NDR CD release)
Tall Tales of Jasper County: The Double Doubles Suite (NDR CD release) 8p $10 for adults and $8 for students. Downbeat Editor's Pick Band Leader: Dale Wilson Trumpets: Brian...
May 16 – The New Jazz Trio with Calligraphy Live Performance
The New Jazz Trio with Calligraphy Live Performance 7p 8:15p $12 The New Jazz Trio www.newjazztrio.com Mayu Saeki (Flute) Lafayette Harris Jr. (Pf) Yasuno Katsuki (Euphonium) Setsuhi Shiraishi (Calligraphy) www.setsuhi.jp...
Apr 10 – ShapeShifter+ Presents: The Take Off Collective and Marko Djordjevic & Sveti
$10 8:15PM The Take Off Collective: Ole Mathisen – sax and buttons Matt Garrison – bass and buttons Marko Djordjevic – drums and doors 9:30PM Marko Djordjevic & Sveti...
May 16 – Matt Panayides Group
Matt Panayides Group 9:30p $8 Playing music from new release entitled “Conduits”. Released on the pacific Coast jazz record label. Rich Perry-tenor, John Yao-trombone, Mark Ferber-drums, Sam Trapchak-bass, Matt...
May 17 – Bridging the Gap 2.0
Bridging The Gap 2.0 Zoe Pose (opening) Bridging The Gap 8p $20.00 coverage Bridging The Gap 2.0. is the second compilation of Haitian-American music. The album consist of sounds...
May 18 – Monika Herzig and The Whole World In Her Hands Band
Monika Herzig and The Whole World In Her Hands Band 7p $15 Monika Herzig Monika Herzig piano Jennifer Vincent bass Jamie Baum flute Lakecia Benjamin alto sax Rosa Avila...
May 18 – Todd Marcus Jazz Orchestra
Todd Marcus Jazz Orchestra 8:15p 9:30p $15 Todd Marcus Jazz Orchestra Todd Marcus (bass clarinet) Greg Tardy (tenor) Brent Birckhead (flute/alto) Russell Kirk (alto) Alex Norris (trumpet) Alan Ferber...
May 19 – ShapeShifter+ Presents JC Sanford Orchestra + Asuka Kakitani Orchestra + Nathan Parker Smith Big Band
JC Sanford Orchestra Asuka Kakitani Orchestra Nathan Parker Smith Big Band 7p 8:15p 9:30p cover charge tab Tweet
May 20 – MadJen
MadJen 7p $10 Ethan Helm – Alto Sax Danny Gouker – Trumpet Nick Grinder – Trombone Juanma Trujillo – Guitar Matt Honor – Drums Andrew Schiller – Bass MadJen...
May 20 – Gallo/Florez duo
Gallo/Florez duo 8:15p $10 Alejandro Florez: tiple Ricardo Gallo: piano Originally from Bogotá Colombia, pianist Ricardo Gallo and guitarist Alejandro Flórez have been generating several projects that relate contemporary...
May 21 – Cadence Night at Shapeshifter Lab – World Premieres in Music, Film and Story
Cadence Night at Shapeshifter Lab – World Premieres in Music, Film and Story List of performing artists followed by set list: Steve Swell, Adam Lane, Jack DeSalvo, Ben Lee,...
May 22 – Harmolodics 2015
Harmolodics 2015 $12 https://www.facebook.com/events/1571298863146527/1571317789811301/ 7:30 Sweet Lee Odom and John Chapman “Duo of Sounds” 8:30 The Bern Nix Quartet Bern Nix:Guitar Matt Lavelle:Flugelhorn Francois Grillot: Contrabass Reggie Sylvester: Drums 9:30 The...
May 23 – Date Changed: Jun 20: Matthew Garrison: Creative Use of Bass Guitar in Modern Forms of Music
Matthew Garrison: Creative Use of Bass Guitar in Modern Forms of Music New Date: June 20 Presented by ShapeShifter+ 4-6p $15 Further dates: April 18, May 23, 2015 This...
May 23 – ShapeShifter+ Presents: PARADISE TRANSDUCED!
ShapeShifter+ Presents: PARADISE TRANSDUCED! Evolving An Electronic Utopia 7:00 – UNIGEN (https://soundcloud.com/unigen)8:15 – THE SECRET CULT OF INFINITE KITTEN (https://soundcloud.com/infinite-kitten) 9:30 – INTRA FACTION (www.intrafaction.com/) VISUALS: PERMIAN STRATA (https://www.facebook.com/PermianStrata)...
May 24 – Dahka Band
Dahka Band 8:15p cover tab Tweet
May 24 – Natalie Dietz – DEBUT NEW YORK PERFORMANCE
Natalie Dietz $12 advance, $15 door www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1473285 Natalie Dietz (voice) Sam Harris (piano) Mike Moreno (guitar) Josh Crumbly (bass) Justin Brown (drums) DEBUT NEW YORK PERFORMANCE Sunday...
May 26 – Heidi Martin & Moon in Scorpio
Heidi Martin & Moon in Scorpio 7p $10 Heidi Martin’s compositions and vocals Featuring: George Burton piano, rhodes and violin Josh Evans trumpet Kush Abadey drums Tweet
May 26 – CANCELLED Eva Kess Group
Eva Kess Group 7p $11 Eva Kess, doublebass, voice & composition Dan Cray, piano Ronen Itzik, drums Doublebassplayer, composer and singer Eva Kess performs her composition with the...
May 26 – LARA BELLO: Crowdfunding Party for Next CD
LARA BELLO Crowdfunding Party for Next CD 8:15p $10 Lara Bello, vocals Eric Kurimski, guitar Bam Bam Rodriguez, bass Samuel Torres, percussion + guests \www.larabello.com Tweet
May 27 – Giant Flying Turtles
Giant Flying Turtles Giant Flying Turtles 7pm $8 Their genre bending music has no bounds, inspired by rock, folk, jazz, bluegrass, and blues this high energy jam trio will...
May 28 – Beautiful Losers
Beautiful Losers 7p $8 Alejandro Zuleta: Piano + Compositions Dafna Naphtali: Voice + Electronics Beautiful Losers is a piano, voice + electronics duo created by Colombian pianist,...
May 28 – Joe Pino Quartet
Joe Pino Quartet 8:15p $8 Joe Pino Quartet Joe Pino – trumpet/flugelhorn, Max Marshall – piano, Alex Ayala – bass, Ryan Mcbride – Drums. www.joepinojazz.com Tweet
May 29 – Schapiro 17
Schapiro 17 7p; 8:15p $15 The personnel are: Trumpet: Bryan Davis, Andy Gravish, Eddie Allen, Noyes Bartholomew Trombone: Deborah Weisz, Darius C. Jones, Nick Grinder, Walter Harris Saxophone: Rob...
May 30 – MATT GARRISON SOFTWARE & HARDWARE APPLICATIONS IN LIVE PERFORMANCE/STUDIO
3-5p $15 This workshop will be a general overview of my personal approach to using software and hardware within live performance and studio production formats. The workshop mainly...
May 30 – Mark Lesseraux and The Citizens
Mark Lesseraux and The Citizens 7p Mark Lesseraux and The Citizens $10 more info coming soon… Tweet
May 31- JAZZAMBOKA
JAZZAMBOKA 7p $10 Jazzamboka, a contraction of the word “jazz” and “yamboka” (which means village / country in Lingala, a Congolese language), clearly marks the style of this group...
May 31 – Herb Robertson and Quantum CoHearance
Herb Robertson and Quantum CoHearance 8:15p $8 Herb Robertson – Trumpet etc. Jim Yanda – Guitar Tom Sayek – Drums etc. Chris Lough – Bass Bob Hovey – Trombone...
Jun 1 – ShapeShifter+ Presents: Alex Weiss Double bill
ShapeShifter+ Presents: Alex Weiss Double bill 7p 8:15p 1st set- PROGRESS NOTES Alex Weiss- saxophone Nir Sadovnik- piano Frank Wagner- bass Luke Schneiders- drums 2nd set- Yoni Kretzmer Quartet Yoni...
Jun 3 – Taylor Haskins + Gnosis
Taylor Haskins + Gnosis 8p $10 Taylor Haskins, trumpet, analog EVI // Nir Felder, guitar // Fima Ephron, bass // Nate Smith, drums Tweet
Jun 4 – Giorgi Mikadze – Group
Giorgi Mikadze – Group 7p $10 Giorgi Mikadze – Piano Uri Gurvich – Sax Adam O’Farrill – Trumpet Giorgi Subeliani – Panduri Jared Henderson – Bass...
Jun 4 – “East River” US Release Show & Sungazer
“East River” US Release Show & Sungazer 8:15p Sungazer 9p PLS.trio $8 PLS.trio Pier Luigi Salami – Piano, Live FXs Martin D Fowler –...
Jun 5 – Onyx Collective – “Pitches of a Pendulum”
Onyx Collective – “Pitches of a Pendulum” Artist Lineup: Austin Williamson – Drums Joshua Benitez – Keys Isaac Sleator – Keys Malik Mclaurine – Bass Isaiah Barr – Alto...
Jun 6 – ShapeShifter+ Presents Shai Maestro Trio & Gilad Hekselman + Ben Wendel
ShapeShifter+ Presents Shai Maestro Trio & Gilad Hekselman + Ben Wendel 8:15p cover tab Tweet
Jun 7 – ShapeShifter+ Presents ROSA & The Take Off Collective
ShapeShifter+ Presents ROSA & The Take Off Collective 7p ROSA: Traditional Serbian Vocal Group Marija Stojnic (group co-founder, singer) Tiffany Wilson (singer, band manager, usually all payments/billing go through her)...
Jun 7 – ShapeShifter+ Presents: Florian Hoefner Group
ShapeShifter+ Presents: Florian Hoefner Group 9:30p $8 Florian Hoefner Group: Seamus Blake (ts), Florian Hoefner (p), Sam Anning (b), Peter Kronreif (dr) Pianist Florian Hoefner introduces his unique brand...
Jun 8 – Periscope
Periscope 8:15p Noah Preminger – Sax Russ Lossing – keyboards Ed Schuller – Acoustic Bass Peter Davenport – Drums Tweet
Jun 8 – ShapeShifter+ Presents: Michael Eaton and Adam Minkoff Present John Coltrane’s Ascension
ShapeShifter+ Presents: Michael Eaton and Adam Minkoff Present John Coltrane’s Ascension 7p $15 Tenor saxophones: Michael Eaton Sean Sonderegger James Brandon Lewis Alto saxophones: Michael Attias Daniel Carter Baritone...
Jun 8 – ShapeShifter+ Presents: No Face, No Name
ShapeShifter+ Presents: No Face, No Name 9:30p $10 Arnold Hammerschlag, trumpet, compositions Sam Bardfeld, violin Will Holshouser, accordion Aaron Alexander, drums Fima Ephron, bass A composer/improviser’s journey into the...
Jun 9 – Four (un)Score(d)
Four (un)Score(d) 7p Cover $15 Students $8 Janet Feder, guitar Miguel Frasconi, electronics Shoko Nagai, piano Jane Rigler, flute, electronics Investigating the sonic textures of wood, metal, glass,...
Jun 9 – ShapeShifter+ Presents: diNMachine and Heroes of Toolik
diNMachine and Heroes of Toolik 8pm: diNMachine, 9pm: Heroes of Toolik $10 Tweet
Jun 11 – Pat Carroll Quintet/Jonathan Greenstein Group
Pat Carroll Quintet/Jonathan Greenstein Group 7p and 8:15p $12 Pat Carroll Quintet Pat Carroll – alto saxophone Phil Dizack – trumpet Sharik Hasan – piano Joshua Crumbly – bass...
Jun 11 – Rachel Friedman Lives Here …with Ganessa James
Rachel Friedman Lives Here …with Ganessa James 9:30p $10 Rachel Friedman-vocals/guitar/uke Ganessa James-vocals/bass/guitar “Rachel Friedman’s voice is honey and wine and I love everything about her”. - John Cameron...
Jun 12 – SUBJECT SGH
SUBJECT SGH 7p $12 featuring Zhenya Strigalev, Matt Garrison, Eric Harland Tweet
Jun 12 – Angry Little Bees, Mellissa Guerro (dance), Tammy Scheffer Sextet, Soft Sirens (video) & Morning Bound
8pm doors 8:15-9pm Angry Little Bees 9:10-9:25pm Mellissa Guerro (Dance performance) 9:35-10:20pm Tammy Scheffer Sextet 10:30-10:40pm Soft Sirens (video projection) 10:45-11:30pm Morning Bound Tweet
Jun 13 – Chiemi Nakai Latin Jazz Project
Chiemi Nakai Latin Jazz Project 7p $15 CHIEMI NAKAI, piano JUSTIN FLYNN, tenor & soprano sax CARLO DE ROSA, bass VINCE CHERICO, drums The exquisite blend of powerful,...
Jun 13 – Sam Harris Trio/ Matt Marantz Quarter Double Bill
Sam Harris Trio/ Matt Marantz Quarter Double Bill 7:00 Matt Marantz Quartet Matt Marantz- sax and EWI, Martin Nevin- bass, Sam Harris- keyboards, Jochen Rueckert- drums 8:15 Sam Harris Trio...
June 20 – Timucin Sahin Quartet feat Tom Rainey, Drew Gress and Matt Moran
Timucin Sahin Quartet feat Tom Rainey, Drew Gress and Matt Moran 9:30p $10 Tweet
Ingrid Jensen Interview
On March 23 we had the privilege to interview trumpet player Ingrid Jensen after she performed with Michael Webster’s Momentus project. Ingrid told us why she likes our venue,...
GO: Organic Orchestra for a few months
For 3 shows during this year we have seen the Organic Orchestra explore all this different experimental compositions and reach higher and higher levels of conceptual understanding and sense...
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