In Residency every Friday in March – See Calendar for Full Schedule

www.yoonsunchoi.com & www.yeahyeahrecords.com for more info

Friday, March 12th (Yeah Yeah Records – Suggested Donation $10)

8:00pm Angie Sanchez (solo)
9:00pm Jacob Sacks And Orlando Hernandez
10:00pm    Eivind Opsvik

VOCAL WORKSHOP: with ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO

Thurs. March 11, 7:30pm

Sliding scale $25-$40

Please RSVP to xrubinos@gmail.com

Unleashing the Voice in Creative Music: From Raw Expression to Refined

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp3qB-93XtY

Vocal Workshop Click Here for more information

COMING UP: In April NYSWU and Ibeam Present the Second Annual Trombone Festival.

Visit the calendar for more details

February 27th

8:30 pm $10 Suggested

First Set (8:30)

Iron Dog

Sarah Bernstein – violin/processing
Stuart Popejoy – bass guitar/effects
Andrew Drury – drums/sounds
Electronic soundscapes, shifting distorted textures, freely synthesized, this and other worlds

Second Set (9:30)

Harris Eisenstadt and Canada Day

Harris Eisenstadt – drums, compositions

Nate Wooley – trumpet

Chris Hoffman – Cello

Chris Dingman – vibraphone

Eivind Opsvik – bass

For its first concerts of 2010, Harris Eisenstadt and Canada Day settle into Ibeam for two nights to premier new compositions. Canada Day’s 2009 debut on Clean Feed appeared on several Best of 2009 lists, including the Village voice, All About Jazz New York, Jazzhouse, WFMU, Ni Kantu, CKUT, and Dusted.

9:30 pm $10 Suggested

First Set (9:30)

Harris Eisenstadt and Canada Day

Harris Eisenstadt – drums, compositions

Nate Wooley – trumpet

Chris Hoffman – Cello

Chris Dingman – vibraphone

Eivind Opsvik – bass

For its first concerts of 2010, Harris Eisenstadt and Canada Day settle into Ibeam for two nights to premier new compositions. Canada Day’s 2009 debut on Clean Feed appeared on several Best of 2009 lists, including the Village voice, All About Jazz New York, Jazzhouse, WFMU, Ni Kantu, CKUT, and Dusted.

Second Set (10:30)

Sean Moran’s “Small Elephant”

Sean Moran – nylon string guitar/compositions

Reuben Radding – contrabass

Stefan Bauer – marimba

Mike Mcginnis – clarinet

Harris Eisenstadt – drums

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February 27th

8:30 pm $10 Suggested

First Set (8:30)

Iron Dog

Sarah Bernstein – violin/processing
Stuart Popejoy – bass guitar/effects
Andrew Drury – drums/sounds
Electronic soundscapes, shifting distorted textures, freely synthesized, this and other worlds

Second Set (9:30)

Harris Eisenstadt and Canada Day

Harris Eisenstadt – drums, compositions

Nate Wooley – trumpet

Chris Hoffman – Cello

Chris Dingman – vibraphone

Eivind Opsvik – bass

For its first concerts of 2010, Harris Eisenstadt and Canada Day settle into Ibeam for two nights to premier new compositions. Canada Day’s 2009 debut on Clean Feed appeared on several Best of 2009 lists, including the Village voice, All About Jazz New York, Jazzhouse, WFMU, Ni Kantu, CKUT, and Dusted.

8:30 and 10:00pm

$10 suggested

Tonino Miano/Brian Groder and Evan Mazunik’s ZAHA

In celebration of their recent release of “Shoot the Sun” on Snapback Records, ZAHA will perform a set of live compositions by Evan Mazunik for quintet.  ZAHA, an interdisciplinary performance company, creates architecture for the imagination through installations, instant compositions, multimedia collaborations, and educational outreach programs. Founded in 2006 by artistic/producing director Evan Mazunik, ZAHA creates live compositions that play with the balance between structure and freedom. Tonino Miano and Brian Groder will open the evening with a piano/trumpet duo of original works.

First Set:

TONINO MIANO/BRIAN GRODER

Tonino Miano—piano

Brian Groder—trumpet

Second set:

ZAHA

Justin Wood—alto sax, flute

Frantz Loriot—viola

Sebastian Noelle—guitar

Ryan Kotler—bass

John O’Brien—drums

Evan Mazunik—live composition

www.evanmazunik.com

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January 30th

$10 Suggested

8:30 pm

DIANA WAYBURN ENSEMBLE

Diana Wayburn (flute/piano/composition)

Justin Wood (flute/sax)

Dawoud Kringle (sitar)

Ryan Kotler (doublebass)

The ensemble will present original compositions based primarily in

polyrhythms from West Africa and European counterpoint.  Composed

music is developed with improvisation and influenced by bebop, Indian

music and classical music.

KALEIDHPHONIC

Kevin Nathaniel Hylton – Mbira, Rattles

M. Salieu Suso – Kora

Tripp Dudley – Tabla

A collage of colors stretched over a canvas of space and time to

create a beautiful painting of sound… like an artist’s easel having

a conversation with itself.  Kaleidhphonic, begun February of 2009, is

a group made up of tabla, kora, mbira & flute which fuses Indian and

African music.

$10 Suggested

8:30 pm

First Set

Go-zee-lah

Kyoko Kitamura: voice, laptop

Yayoi Ikawa: piano

Harris Eisenstadt: drums

Looking for an outlet to liberate their inner pop/rock child, Kyoko Kitamura and Yayoi Ikawa,  known primarily for their tough core improvisation, formed Go-zee-lah in the summer of 2009 after touring Costa Rica together. With the support of Harris Eisenstadt, Go-zee-lah will perform all original tunes influenced by J-pop (Japanese pop) and J-rock but adding their musical complexity for an explosive mix.

Kyoko Kitamura website http://kyokokitamura.com/

Yayoi Ikawa website http://yayoiikawa.com/

Harris Eisenstadt website http://harriseisenstadt.com/

Second Set

Mike McGinnis reunites the personnel from his first release “Tangents” (RKM Music 2001) for a set of new and old music played by a group with magical chemistry that has been brewing for 15 years.

Mike McGinnis – Saxophone

Shane Endsley – Trumpet

Jacob Sacks – Piano

Dave Ambrosio – Bass

Vinnie Sperrazza – Drums

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January 23rd

$10 Suggested

8:30 pm

Knuffke & Drye Duo

Brian Drye – Trombone

Kirk Knuffke – Trumpet

Hot off their soon to be release duo CD “Leaf Spring” Knuffke and Drye will present a short set of their current duo material.  Check them out at www.myspace.com/knuffkeanddrye

9:00 pm

Ben Kono Group

Ben Kono: clarinet, bass clarinet, flutes, oboe, english horn, tenor sax, laptop, composition

Heather Laws: vocals, french horn

Henry Hey: piano

Pete McCann: guitars

John Hebert: bass

Owen Howard: drums

The Group performs music from their recently recorded CD “The Crossing”. Kono uses live looping computer technology to create layered woodwind orchestral structures out of which the compositions grow, marrying improvisation with composition and chance. www.benkono.com

Please join us this weekend.  $10 suggested donation

Friday January 15

TELLURIC CURRENTS SERIES 3

$10 suggested

8p Chuck Bettis/Dafna Naphtali Duo

9p Nate Wooley Solo

10p Zach Layton/Ryan Sawyer/Alex Waterman Trio

Saturday January 16

TELLURIC CURRENTS SERIES 3

$10 suggested

8p Jeremiah Cymerman Solo

9p Sara Schoenbeck/Ursel Schlicht Duo

10p Brandon Seabrook Solo

$10 suggested

8:30 pm

3-0

Ben Gerstein:trombone

Tyshawn Sorey: drums, percussion

Terrence McManus: guitar, objects

www.bengerstein.com

Dan Peck Trio (10 pm)

Dan Peck-tuba

Brian Osborne-drums, percussion

Tom Blancarte-bass

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January 9th

$10 Suggested Donation

8:30pm

Gleason’s Twins

Kristin Slipp, voice

Joe Moffett, trumpet

9:30pm (Second Set)

Noah Kaplan-Anthony Coleman-Giacomo Merega

Noah Kaplan, saxophones

Marco Cappelli, piano

Giacomo Merega, electric bass

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January 10th

$10 Suggested

8:30 pm

The Swan Catchers

by Aaron Siegel

An Audio Memory Play for String Quartet and Actors

Andie Springer, violin

Caroline Shaw, violin

Erin Wight, viola

Evelyn Farny, cello

Genevieve Hardison, mother

Ryan McCarthy, father

8:30 pm $10 Suggested

Billy Mintz Presents:

Set 2

Billy Mintz Solo Drums