Music tonight-Dafnis Prieto in NY

Tonight Tuesday 2-23-10
Rose Live Music
345 Grand Street
Williamsburg, Brooklyn

The Proverb Trio with Dafnis Prieto on drums, Kokayi on vocals and Jason Lindner on Keyboard.

Dafnis Prieto's revolutionary drumming technique has had a powerful impact on the latin and jazz music scene. He studied at the national school of Music in Havana and by the age of 16 had toured with Carlos Maza, Ramon Valle, and with "Columna B". Most recently he has played along side Henry Threadgill, Steve Coleman, Chico and Arturo O'Farril, Dave Samuels & The Caribbean Jazz project, Michel Camilo, Roy Hargrove, Andrew Hill and many more.

He has performed at an array of renowned venues from the Lincoln Center and the Whitney Museum to the Red Sea Jazz festival.

This should be an great opportunity to see him in an intimate setting

Dafnis Prieto's website

W. Eugene Smith at the New York public Library Lincoln Center

The Jazz Loft Project at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center through May 22, 2010.

Photographs by W. Euegene Smith

In the early 50's Smith moved into a loft building on sixth Avenue, which had already become a hangout for artists, writers and especially jazz musicians, who rehearsed and jammed there. Among the visitors to the loft: Thelonious Monk, Zoot Sims, Bill Evans, Steve Swallow, Robert Frank, Salvador Dali, Norman Mailer and Diane Arbus and more. he shot over 40,000 frames on 35mm and recorded thousands of hours of music and sounds between 1957 and 1965.

This book is a stunning mix of New York history, jazz and photography. Check it out, there will be more than 200 images, several hours of audio, and 16mm film footage of Smith working in the loft. It's well worth a glimpse into history.

excerpt from the book:

January 29, 1960

W. Eugene Smith sits at the fourth-floor window of his dilapidated loft at 821 Sixth Avenue, New York City, near the corner of Twenty-eighth Street, the heart of Manhattan’s wholesale flower district. He peers out at the street below, several cameras at hand loaded with different lenses and film speeds. His window faces east from the west side of Sixth Avenue. The dawn light begins to rise behind the Empire State Building and other Midtown skyscrapers looming over the modest neighborhood. Three musicians stand together on the sidewalk below talking and laughing. One holds an upright bass in its case, another has a saxophone case slung over his shoulder, and the other is smoking a cigarette. It is six o’clock in the morning; the temperature is a moderate thirty degrees. The musicians are going home after a night-long jam session. Smith snaps a few pictures.

Legendary jazz musician Paquito D'Rivera @ Brooklyn Center

I highly recommend this for a night of incredible music and dance.

From World Stages: Dance
Brooklyn Center Presents

SERIES PREMIERE!

Luna Negra Dance Theater
with Special Guests Turtle Island Quartet
and Paquito D'Rivera

Dedicated to the works of Latino choreographers, Luna Negra Dance Theater celebrates its 10th anniversary by teaming up with the bold Turtle Island Quartet and legendary jazz musician Paquito D’Rivera, both multiple Grammy Award winners, in a celebration of the rich music and dance traditions of Cuba with their newest work entitled Danzón.

Sunday, October 25, 2009 - 2pm Matinee
Walt Whitman Theatre

Tickets:
General Admission: $30
Multibuy: $27
WorldPack: $25