Photo Credit: Hank Williams
Welcome to Suga in My Bowl radio‘s weekly feature, On The Bandstand, where we collect upcoming NYC area shows from current and past Suga’ guests. We’re online weekly and on the air on NYC’s WBAI-FM radio alternate Sunday nights from 11 PM -1 AM. Keep up with us via Facebook, the blog here, or our main website, or Twitter and we’ll keep track of the schedule for you.
We’re off this week, but head on over to our archives for last week’s show with Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra with Ruth Cameron Haden and tuba player and long time Liberation Music Orchestra member Joseph Daley and nearly 7 years of archived shows.
Bassist Mimi Jones hosts a jam session in the late set at Smoke on January 16th, 23rd, 30th.
Bassist William Parker and drummer Hamid Drake team up on the 16 and 18 at the Clemente Soto Velez Center as part of Arts for Art’s Justice is Compassion series.
Joseph Daley will be at Terra Blues with Hazmat Modine on the 21st.
Bassist Christian McBride has a 2-week run at the Village Vanguard, leading a quartet from the 17-22nd.
Pianist Harold Mabern leads a trio at Smalls on the 18th.
Drummer/ percussionist Francisco Mora Catlett leads AfroHORN at Clemente Soto Velez Center on the 19th.
Drummer Jeff “Tain” Watts leads a quintet with Ravi Coltrane on saxophone at the Jazz Standard from the 19th-22nd.
Guitarist Pat Metheny leads a quartet with drummer Antonio Sanchez at the Ridgefield Playhouse in CT on January 20th and at the Count Basie Theater in Red Bank, NJ on the 22nd.
Vocalist Kurt Elling is with saxophonist Branford Marsalis’s quartet at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater on the 20-21st.
Drummer and percussionist Bobby Sanabria is at Lehman Center for the Performing Arts in The Bronx with Larry Harlow on the 21st.
Guitarist Marc Ribot is at The Stone on January 22nd with fellow guitarist James Moore.
Drummer and percussionist Will Calhoun has a CD release event for his Elvin Jones tribute at the Blue Note from the 24-26. Saxophonist Ravi Coltrane joins Calhoun as special guest on the 24th.
Howard Johnson will be at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem as part of an extended 75th birthday celebration on January 29.
Vocalist Carmen Lundy is at Birdland from January 31-February 4 2017.
Organist
John Medeski has a residency at The Stone from January 31-February 5 2017.
Vision Fest promoters Arts for Art is again sponsoring a nearly month-long series from January 2-22nd of music, poetry, dance, and visual art titled “Justice is Compassion/
Not a Police State” at the Clemente Soto Velez Center on the Lower East Side. Poet
Jesus Papoleto Melendez, bassist William Parker, drummer Hamid Drake, drummer/percussionist Francisco Mora Catlett’s AfroHORN, and dancer Patricia Nicholson Parker are just a few of the many involved. See the full schedule of 65 performances at their website.
Drummer and percussionist Will Calhoun’s gallery exhibit of his visual art collaboration Aza is on view at the Bronx Music Heritage Center through February 11. We reviewed the show earlier this year.
That’s all for now. Suga’ in My Bowl is scheduled to be back on WBAI‘s airwaves on January 22nd. We’ll also have another edition of “On the Bandstand” online next Sunday with a fresh set of listings.
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Hank Williams is an associate producer for Suga’ in My Bowl on WBAI Radio and webmaster for the Suga’ and Behind the Mic sites. He is also a PhD candidate in English and Africana Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center and teaches at Hunter and Lehman Colleges and The City College of New York. Find him on Twitter @streetgriot
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