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 the air this week, but check out our audio archives for last week’s show with bassist Melvin Gibbs or nearly 7 years of archived shows to get your fix until next week. Now let’s get to our music listings.
Bassist Mimi Jones hosts a jam session in the late set at Smoke on January 30th. You can also catch her leading her own sextet at Monmouth University in New Jersey on February 4th.
Bassist Christian McBride is also at the Jazz Museum to talk about his recording career for part 1 of the Session Stories on January 31st.
Vocalist Carmen Lundy is at Birdland from January 31-February 4 2017.
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John Medeski has a residency at The Stone from January 31-February 5 2017.
Vocalist Catherine Russell is at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theatre on February 4 as part of the Family Concert series: Who is Louis Armstrong?
Guitarist Marc Ribot is at Sunny’s in Red Hook Brooklyn on February 9th.
Vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater is at The Met Museum of Art on February 10th.
Vocalist Thana Alexa is at Brooklyn’s Kingsborough Community College singing Ella Fitzgerald songs on February 10th.
Pianist David Virelles is at the Jazz Gallery on February 10-11th.
Vocalist Dianne Reeves is at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater on February 10-11th.
Vocalist Catherine Russell leads a sextet at Birdland from February 14-18th singing love songs.
Pianist Harold Mabern leads a trio in the late set at Smalls on the 15th.
Pianists Randy Weston and Monty Alexander are at Medgar Evers College’s Founders Auditorium in Brooklyn for “A Spiritual Awakening” on February 15th. Tickets are free!
Drummer Andrew Cyrille leads a quartet at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club on February 16th.
Bassist Melvin Gibbs and drummer/percussionist Will Calhoun are at Brooklyn’s Shapeshifter Lab on February 16th.
Melvin Gibbs drummer JT Lewis are at The Stone on February 18th with Harriet Tubman.
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 last year.
That’s all for now. Suga’ in My Bowl is scheduled to be back on WBAI‘s airwaves on February 5th. 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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