40Twenty

Jacob Garchik- trombone
Jacob Sacks- piano
Dave Ambrosio- bass
Vinnie Sperrazza- drums
plus special guests

“…those ‘forty-twenty’ sets the club owners wanted everybody to play. They wanted you to begin your set twenty minutes after the hour and play until the end of the hour and then come back twenty minutes later and play another set….you could end up doing four of five sets like that during a night…….” -Miles Davis, 1989.

Inspired by the challenge of jazz club engagements from the 1940’s, 50’s, and 60’s, drummer Vinnie Sperrazza, pianist Jacob Sacks, trombonist Jacob Garchik and bassist Dave Ambrosio have formed 40twenty and will be presenting two 60-minute sets nightly, Tuesday through Saturday, July 27th-July 31st and August 3rd-August 7th, at Ibeam Music.

While this is the debut engagement of 40twenty, the albums “Peak Inn” (Fresh Sound New Talent 343) featuring Sperrazza, Sacks, and Ambrosio, “Romance”, (Yestereve Records 02) featuring Garchik and Sacks, and “Two Miles A Day” (Yeah Yeah/Loyal Label LLCD 001-YY4001), the acclaimed release featuring Sacks with legendary drummer Paul Motian, map out the territory the new quartet occupies.

The 10-night, 20-set engagement will be recorded for possible release.

WEBSITES:
www.jacobgarchik.com
www.yeahyeahrecords.com

Denman Maroney / Emmanuel Cremer / Rueben Radding
Denman Maroney: piano
Emmanuel Cremer: cello
Rueben Radding: Bass

Denman Maroney is known for his “hyperpiano” style (playing the keys with one hand and the strings with other using slides and bows of metal, plastic, and rubber) and his temporal harmonies (composing and improvising in multiple tempos). He has recorded for Porter, Innova, Clean Feed, Nuscope, Kadima, Cryptogramophone, New World, Enja, Victo, CIMP, and Erstwhile among others with Mark Dresser, Matthias Ziegler, Ned Rothenberg, Dave Ballou, Michael Sarin, Kevin Norton, Theo Bleckmann, Shelley Hirsch and Earl Howard among others. www.denmanmaroney.com.

July 24, 8:00 pm, $10 Suggested Donation

laubrock/lossing/rainey
Russ Lossing – piano
Ingrid Laubrock – sax
Tom Rainey drums

I Am Page Turner
Jacob Varmus, trumpet,cornet, piano
Elena Camerin, vocal
Khabu Young, guitar
Jeff Davis, drums
Jesse Stacken, Piano

July 17th, 8 pm, $10 Suggested Donation

9pm

devin gray – drums
chris tordini – bass
ryan ferreira – guitar
jonathan goldberger – guitar

10pm:
jeff davis qt
Matt Pavolka – Bass
Jason Rigby – Saxophone
Jeff Davis – Drums
jonathan goldberger – guitar

9 pm
Craig Taborn – Solo Piano

10 pm
Tim Berne / Matt Mitchell Duo
Tim Berne – Saxophone
Matt Mitchell – Piano

This is going to be awesome BTW!

Matt Blostein / Vinnie Sperrazza Quartet
Matt Blostein – Saxophone/ Tunes
Vinnie Sperrazza – Drums/Tunes
Geoff Kraly – Electric Bass
Jacob Garchik – Trombone

Free improv with rock energy, late-Romantic harmony with roots in jazz, the Matt Blostein/Vinnie Sperrazza Band creates an engaging instrumental sound that’s at once distinct, personal, and welcoming. Imagine Ellington and Zappa reminiscing about Strauss and Ornette Coleman, as plaintive saxophones and rumbling drums peek out from around the corner. “Original tunes built with highly syncopated phrasing, but presented with enough musicality to make it easily accessible.”  -Bob Karlovits, Pittsburgh Tribune Review

June 19th, 8:00 pm, $10 Suggested Donation

Sarah Manning’s Shatter The Glass

Sarah Manning – Alto Saxophone and owl
Art Hirahara – Piano and piano bits
Linda Oh – Acoustic bass and clock
Kyle Struve – Drums and train signal gate

It’s finally here! The CD Release Party for “Dandelion Clock” on Posi-Tone Records! Come join Sarah Manning in this intimate space and help her celebrate!

8:00 pm
Tim Berne’s Los Totopos
Ches Smith – Drums
Tim Berne – Saxophone
Oscar Noriega – Bass Clarinet / Clarinet
Matt Mitchell – Piano

10:00 pm
Brian Drye’s Bizingas
Brian Drye – Trombone
Kirk Knuffke – Cornet
Ches Smith – Drums
Jonathan Goldberger – Guitar

Los Totopos, Tim Berne’s new touring band, is a potent blend of new voices and new ideas. Berne responds with a stunning book of new pieces balancing compositional rigor with fluid group improvisation. Hypnotic rhythms and long, seductive melodies collide with jagged dissonances and surprising textural shifts. A lush, organic blend of saxophones and clarinets is layered with electronic and acoustic keyboards and an ever-changing tapestry of percussion. Freedom and discipline, consonance and discord, past, present and future- all work together to power this new band from Tim Berne.

June 18th @ 9 pm, $10

Matt Blostein / Vinnie Sperrazza Quartet
Matt Blostein – Saxophone
Vinnie Sperrazza – Drums
Geoff Kraly – Bass
Jacob Garchik – Trombone

June 4th, $10 Suggested Donation

8:30 pm
Put a Motor in Yourself
Jaun Pablo Carletti – Drums
Jonathan Goldberger – Guitar
JP Slegelmich – Piano / Keys

10:00 pm
DDYGG Reunion Gig
Mark Dodge – Drums
Brian Drye – Trombone
Khabu Young – Guitars
Matt Glassmeyer – Various Items
Mike McGinnis – Woodwinds

June 5th, 8:00 pm, $10 Suggested Donation

Dollshot
Rosalie Kaplan, voice
Noah Kaplan, saxophone
Wes Matthews, piano
Giacomo Merega, electric bass

Called “fearless and iconoclastic (Lucid Culture, NYC),” the kaleidoscopic quartet Dollshot is reinventing art song with experimental, evocative arrangements of 20th century music and adventurous originals. The Brooklyn-based band met originally in their studies at the New England Conservatory and represents an array of musical styles including classical, microtonal jazz, and post-rock minimalism. Their kaleidoscopic sound is realized through works by Schoenberg, Poulenc, and Ives in provocative new electro-acoustic sound settings and originals ranging from the avant-pop “The Trees” to the abstract “Fear of Clouds.”

The Sleep in You Eyes
Jonathan Goldberger – Guitar
Rohin Khemani – Drums, Tabla, Percussion
Jonti Siman – Bass

Click on the Calendar for a full List of what’s coming up @ Ibeam

and this summer….

The Ibeam Summer Ensemble Program is open to all instrumentalists who have been studying privately for at least one year and show an enthusiasm for music.  Students study theory, improvisation, composition and ensemble playing in a nurturing environment for a one or two week intensive.  This is an exciting opportunity for beginning, intermediate and advanced students to perform with other student musicians in a creative environment.

Early Morning Session 9-11 am
Week 1 July 5-8
Week 2 July 12-15
Cost: $150 per week or $250 for two weeks
ages 7-11

Afternoon Session 3-5 pm
Week 1 July 5-8
Week 2 July 12-15
Cost: $150 per week or $250 for two weeks
ages 12-16

For more information about private lessons and ensembles please contact us attn: lessons or call Brian Drye at 646-456-6532.

boB Bowen’s Leeway

Yoon Sun Choi – vocals
Elena Camerin – vocals
Brian Drye – trombone
Mike McGinnis – reeds
Khabu Doug Young – guitar
Jacob Sacks – piano
Vinnie Sperrazza – drums
boB Bowen – bass / tunes

artist statement:
As a reflection of my own fractured musical personality, Leeway is a medium-sized ensemble that moves between composed songs, abstract instrumental pieces and totally improvised group compositions. Most of the composed tunes are pieces that have been coming to me in recent years that seemed to have no real home with any of the collaborative projects I was involved with at the time. So part of my impetus with this group was to create an ongoing ensemble for this music and also to create a forum to explore the wide ‘in between’ spaces of ensemble improvisation and ultimately for me, how all of that interfaces with visual art. As an emerging visual artist, this music is inextricably linked in my person with my drawings and paintings. I will have some work to show at this gig; several paintings and a bunch of drawings. It is clear to me that the creative process is the same when improvising music or improvising a picture. The start is an initial gambit of a kind that bleeds interest and possibility, then development ensues naturally as the distinct parts of the initial idea spin out their progeny. At the same time a larger perspective seeks composition and broad structural form that enables the piece, whether art or music, to breath and become it’s own entity.
To categorize this music as ‘this or that’ kind is to limit something that is ultimately a reflection of the musicians and audience – in other words trying to limit something that is essentially in nature limitless. Its has many elements from the music of our culture and, again in reflection of us, it is eclectic and wide in style. All a fancy way of saying that it is not just ‘jazz’ or ‘rock’ or ‘funk’ or ‘free improv’ but music that falls and operates in the ‘leeway’ between more rigid ideas of musical style and mediums.

April 30 (Trombone Festival – $10 Suggested Donation)

8 pm
Westbrook Johnson’s Three Roads Band
Westbrook Johnson – Trombone
Jesse Bartlet-Webber – Drums
Alex Vallejo – Bass
John Welsh – Guitar

10 pm
Ben Gerstein Quartet
Ben Gerstein – Trombone
Michael Attias – Saxophone
Mat Maneri – Viola
Jacob Sacks – Piano