($15-$20) John Kadlecik Band (from Furthur, DSO) @ Sullivan Hall
($20-$25) Roy Hargrove Big Band w/ special guest Roberta Gambarini @ Blue Note Jazz Club
($30) Buster Williams @ Iridium Jazz Club (2 sets)
($35) Rebirth Brass Band: Pre-Mardi Gras Celebration with 2012 Grammy Nominees @ Hiro Ballroom
($50-$330) Barry Manilow @ Radio City Music Hall
Sunday, February 12, 2012
(No Price Yet) Guns N’ Roses @ Terminal 5
($20-$25) Roy Hargrove Big Band w/ special guest Roberta Gambarini @ Blue Note Jazz Club
($30) Ralph Stanley @ B.B. Kings
($40-$100) An Intimate Valentine’s Concert with Jim Brickman @ Best Buy Theater
($50-$330) Barry Manilow @ Radio City Music Hall
Monday, February 13, 2012
($8) Jim Campilongo Electric Trio with Stephan Crump & Tony Mason @ The Living Room
($10) An Evening with: Nigel Hall and Alecia Chakour @ Rockwood Music Hall – Stage 2 (9pm)
($25) Mingus Big Band @ The Jazz Standard
($33-$95) Tibet House Benefit Concert @ Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
Feat. Laurie Anderson, Antony, James Blake, Tim Fain, Philip Glass, Stephin Merritt, Rahzel, Lou Reed, Dechen Shak-Dagsay
($35) Les Paul Mondays feat. Special Guests Earl Slick (Guitarist with David Bowie) and Lee Rocker (Bassist from Stray Cats) with The Les Paul Trio @ Iridium Jazz Club (2 sets)
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
($35-$55) David Sanborn @ The Blue Note (2 sets)
($40-$60) Richard Thompson – Special All-Request Shows @ City Winery
($50-$330) Barry Manilow @ Radio City Music Hall
($75-$85) Cedric The Entertainer @ The Beacon Theater
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
(Free) Nutritious @ Bembe
(No price yet) Guns N’ Roses @ Webster Hall
($15-$17) Legendary Meters Drummer: Zigaboo Modeliste’s NY Foundation of Funk Revue ft. Andy Hess, Brian Mitchell, Jonathan Batiste & Jamie McLean @ Highline Ballroom
($35-$55) David Sanborn @ The Blue Note (2 sets)
($40-$60) Richard Thompson – Special All-Request Shows @ City Winery
($150-$170) bjork: biophilia live @ New York Hall of Science
Thursday, February 16, 2012
($73) John Hammond & John Mayall @ The Allen Room at Lincoln Center
(Free) Taylor Carson @ Rockwood Music Hall
($5-$8) DJ ?uestlove Presents Bowl Train – Late Night DJ Set @ Brooklyn Bowl
($15) Less Than Jake @ The Brooklyn Bowl (Early Show)
($35-$40) Auktyon featuring John Medeski & Marc Ribot @ le Poisson Rouge
($35-$55) David Sanborn @ The Blue Note (2 sets)
($40-$60) Richard Thompson – Special All-Request Shows @ City Winery
Friday, February 17, 2012
($8) Higher Nebulae @ Sullivan Hall (early show)
($10) Gent Treadly @ Sullivan Hall (part of another band on the bill)
($10-$13) Tall, Tall Trees @ Mercury Lounge
($15) A toga-party with America’s #1 Party Band!: Otis Day & the Knights @ The Brooklyn Bowl
($18-$22) Saul Williams @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
($35-$55) David Sanborn @ The Blue Note (2 sets)
($55-$130) Aretha Franklin @ Radio City Music Hall
Saturday, February 18, 2012
(Free) Hot Peas ‘N Butter @ Carnegie Hall (45 Minute Children’s Performance)
($8-$10) Skatalites @ The Brooklyn Bowl
($10) CEG Presents: MUN’s CD Release Party featuring MUN plus Pigeons Playing Ping Pong @ Sullivan Hall
($13) The Souljazz Orchestra plus Zongo Junction @ The Studio at Webster Hall
($22-$32) Emilie Autumn @ Gramercy Theater
($30) Mingus Big Band @ Jazz Standard
($35-$55) David Sanborn @ The Blue Note (2 sets)
($38-$42) Davy Jones of The Monkees @ B.B Kings
($50-$65) Mardi Gras Ball with Kermit Ruffins and the Barbecue Swingers plus Bonerama w/ special guest Marco Benevento, DJ Cochon de Lait and special guests Outer Borough Brass Band @ Hiro Ballroom
($50-$100) Peter Frampton: Back by Popular Demand! The Frampton Comes Alive 35 Tour @ The Beacon Theater
($55-$130) Aretha Franklin @ Radio City Music Hall
($150-$170) bjork: biophilia live @ New York Hall of Science
Sunday, February 19, 2012
($18-$23) Big Gigantic @ Webster Hall
($25) Mingus Big Band @ Jazz Standard
($30) Arturo O’Farrill Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra @ Birdland NYC
($35-$55) David Sanborn @ The Blue Note (2 sets)
($50-$65) Mardi Gras Ball with Kermit Ruffins and the Barbecue Swingers and Bonerama @ Hiro Ballroom
Monday, February 20, 2012
($8) Jim Campilongo Electric Trio with Stephan Crump & Tony Mason @ The Living Room
($15-$18) Jenny Scheinman’s Mischief & Mayhem w/ Nels Cline, Jim Black, and Todd Sickafoose @ le Poission Rouge
($25) Mingus Big Band @ The Jazz Standard
($32-$38) Marcia Ball and BeauSoleil @ City Winery
($30) Les Paul Mondays: The Jon Herington Band (lead guitarist of Steely Dan) and the Les Paul Trio @ Iridium Jazz Club
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
($15) Less Than Jake @ The Brooklyn Bowl
($20-$30) Monty Alexander: 50 Years in Music & 50 Years in Jamaica: UPLIFT! With Special Guest Christian McBride & Russell Malone @ The Blue Note (2 sets)
($25) Tigran Hamasyan & Jason Lindner/Mark Guiliana Duo @ Highline Ballroom
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
(Free) Nutritious @ Bembe
(Free) Cabinet @ Rodeo Bar
($20-$30) Monty Alexander: 50 Years in Music & 50 Years in Jamaica: UPLIFT! With Special Guest Christian McBride & Russell Malone @ The Blue Note (2 sets)
($50-$60) Flogging Molly, Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears and The Devil Makes Three @ Manhattan Center Hammerstein Ballroom
($150-$170) bjork: biophilia live @ Roseland Ballroom
Thursday, February 23, 2012
(Free?) Gent Treadly @ East Side Billiards
($5-$8) DJ ?uestlove Presents Bowl Train – Late Night DJ Set @ Brooklyn Bowl
($20) Phife Dawg (of Tribe Called Quest) and Friends @ B.B. Kings
($25-$40) Monty Alexander: 50 Years in Music & 50 Years in Jamaica: UPLIFT! With Special Guest Dr. Lonnie Smith @ The Blue Note (2 sets)
($25-$45) In-Tune Music Festival: Philip Glass performing Kaddish (7pm)
One of the greatest works to emerge from the Beat Generation was Allen Ginsberg’sKaddish, a sprawling, propulsive poem about the poet’s estrangement from Judaism. The 2012 Tune-In Music Festival will begin with a world premiere, commissioned by the Park Avenue Armory from jazz guitarist Bill Frisell, to be performed by the composer and an eight-piece ensemble accompanying a reading of Kaddish by Ginsberg collaborator Hal Willner and artist Ralph Steadman, who will create the visual design and staging to accompany the piece. (Runs 75 minutes with no intermission)
($30-$35) Sinead O’Connor @ Highline Ballroom
($55-$250) HIAS Regina Spektor Benefit Concert @ Rose Theater at Lincoln Center
Friday, February 24, 2012
($12) Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad @ Rockwood Music Hall – Stage 2 (10pm)
($12-$15) Twiddle / FiKus with Psychedelphia and The Fundimensionals @ Sullivan Hall
($15) Wyllys ft. Jennifer Hartswick w/ Special Guests @ The Blue Note (Late Night Series)
($15) An Evening With The Cast and Crew of: The Adventures of Pete and Pete @ Bowery Ballroom
($25-$45) Tune-In Music Festival: Philip Glass and Patti Smith: The Poet Speaks @ Park Avenue Armory (7pm)
Longtime Glass collaborator Patti Smith and her band join Glass for the second concert, “The Poet Speaks,” performing music and readings celebrating their favorite poets, including Ginsberg and William Blake, which will be the first New York performance for the pair. (Runs approx. 90 Minutes with no intermission)
($30) Hit Squad – Reunion Show: Redman, Epmd, Das Efx, Keith Murray @ Best Buy Theater
($30-$35) Sinead O’Connor @ Highline Ballroom
Saturday, February 25, 2012
($10) Dopapod / Turbine with The Mantras , MiZ , XVSK @ Sullivan Hall
($15) Kung Fu @ The Blue Note (Late Night Series)
($20) Eric Lindell with special guest Otis Taylor @ Hiro Ballroom
($22-$26) Buckwheat Zydeco @ B.B. Kings (Grammy Winning King Of New Orleans Zydeco)
($25) Railroad Earth and Cornmeal @ Best Buy Theater
($30-$50) Tune-In Music Festival: The Philip Glass Ensemble performs his Music in 12 Parts @ Park Avenue Armory (5pm)
For the third concert, The Philip Glass Ensemble will offer a rare performance of the entire Music in Twelve Parts, Glass’s epic minimalist composition which he considers his “breakthrough” work. (Runs a total of 5 hours including two short intermissions and one hour long dinner break)
($150-$170) bjork: biophilia live @ Roseland Ballroom
Sunday, February 26, 2012
($15) Chris Rob: Game Rebellion @ Highline Ballroom
($15-$35) Tune-In Music Festival: Philip Glass performs Afternoon Concert @ Park Avenue Armory (2pm)
The final day of the Festival will begin with compilation of unique artists that Philip Glass has assembled and represent the forward momentum of contemporary music. (Runs a total of 2 hours 15 minutes with one Intermission)
($15-$35) Tune-In Music Festival: Philip Glass’s Another Look at Harmony – Part IV @ Park Avenue Armory (7pm)
The Festival concludes with Glass’s Another Look at Harmony, a choral work Glass started in 1975 for organ and 100 voices, performed by the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, the Collegiate Chorale, and organist Michael Riesman, music director and keyboardist of The Philip Glass Ensemble. (Runs 62 minutes with no intermission)
($25-$40) Monty Alexander: 50 Years in Music & 50 Years in Jamaica: A Night at Jillys ft Dee Dee Bridgewater & Freddy Cole @ The Blue Note
($27.50) Marc Ribot’s ” Really The Blues” @ Iridium Jazz Club (2 sets)
($30) Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra @ Birdland NYC
($50-$75) An Unpredictable Evening With Todd Rundgren@ City Winery
Monday, February 27, 2012
($8) Jim Campilongo Electric Trio with Stephan Crump & Tony Mason @ The Living Room
($10) Erik Deutsch Demonio Teclado CD Release Party @ Rockwood Music Hall – Stage 2
($25) Mingus Big Band @ The Jazz Standard
($27.50) Marc Ribot’s ” Really The Blues” @ Iridium Jazz Club (2 sets)
($50-$75) An Unpredictable Evening With Todd Rundgren@ City Winery
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
(Free) Dred Scott Trio @ Rockwood Music Hall
($15) Bowlive III @ The Brooklyn Bowl: Special Guests: John Scofield & Luther Dickinson
($30-$40) Leo Kottke @ City Winery
($35-$40) Robert Glasper Experiment:With Special Guests Yasiin Bey, Chrisette Michele, Lalah Hathaway & More @ Highline Ballroom
($50-$150) Van Halen with Kool & The Gang @ Madison Square Garden
($150-$170) bjork: biophilia live @ Roseland Ballroom
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
(Free) Nutritious @ Bembe
($15) Bowlive III @ The Brooklyn Bowl: Special Guests: John Scofield & Luther Dickinson
($10) Benefit for Japan: Jamie Mclean Band (8:30pm)
SPHINX (7:00pm)
Things They Carried With Them (7:45pm)
Jamie Mclean Band (8:30pm)
The New Gallery Band of New York (9:15pm)
Alan Merrill of The Arrows (10:00pm)
($12) Club d’Elf w/ John Medeski @ Le Poisson Rouge
($25) The Taj Mahal Trio w/ Fredericks Brown @ Brooklyn Bowl
($30) Chico O’Farrill and the Afro-Cuban Jazz Band @ Birdland NY
($50-$200) Rush @ Madison Square Garden
Monday, April 11th, 2011
($8) Jim Campilongo @ The Living Room
($25) Mingus Orchestra @ The Jazz Standard
($20-$25) Very Young People’s Concerts – Treble and Bass@ Merkin Concert Hall (10:30am)
($27-$32) KT Tunstall @ Webster Hall
($35-$195) Itzhak Perlman and the Philharmonic@ Avery Fisher Hall (7:30pm)
Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
(Free) Dred Scott Trio @ Rockwood Music Hall (late night)
($20) Ben Allison Band feat Jason Linder Trio @ The Jazz Standard
($30) Dave Mason @ B.B. Kings Blues Club
($200-$5,000) James Taylor at Carnegie Hall: A Gala Celebrating 120 Years of Carnegie Hall
Special Guest Artists: Barbara Cook, Steve Martin, Bette Midler, Sting, Dianne Reeves, Members of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus
Honorary Artist Committee : Emanuel Ax, Calista Flockhart, Harrison Ford, Yo-Yo Ma, Audra McDonald, Kelly Preston, Tavis Smiley, Regina Spektor, John Travolta, Jay Z
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011
($7) Afro Funky Party w/ Zongo Junction, Top Shotta & DJ Offbeat @ Cameo Gallery
($20) Ben Allison Band feat Jason Linder Trio @ The Jazz Standard
($32-$37) John Oates band feat. Sam Bush @ B.B. Kings Blues Club
($32-$117) Masur Conducts Liszt, Gubaidulina, and Brahms @ Avery Fisher Hall (7:30pm)
($50) Tedeschi & Trucks Band @ Highline Ballroom
Thursday, April 14th, 2011
Wanee Music Festival, Live Oaks, FL
(Free) Gent Treadly @ East Side Billiards
(Suggested Donation) Tall Tall Trees @ Pete’s Candy Store (9:00pm)
($5) Papadosio @ Brooklyn Bowl
($10) Apollo Run @ Union Hall
($32-$117) Masur Conducts Liszt, Gubaidulina, and Brahms @ Avery Fisher Hall (7:30pm)
($42.50) The Disco Biscuts @ Best Buy Theater
Friday, April 15th, 2011
Wanee Music Festival, Live Oaks, FL
(Free) Tall Tall Trees @ Rockwood Music Hall
(Free) NY Funk Exchange @ Southpaw
($5) Ryan Monteblu Band @ Brooklyn Bowl
($10) Japan Benefit with Eric Krasno DJing @ Thompson Hotel (9pm) – scattered amongst other DJ slots
($10) Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds @ Sullivan Hall
($10-$12) O’Death @ The Knitting Factory
($15-$18) Future Rock @ Bowery Ballroom
($42.50) The Disco Biscuts @ Best Buy Theater
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
SUSHIOKE!!!! Two Year Anniversary – Who’s Ragin???
Wanee Music Festival, Live Oaks, FL
(Free) Ryan Monteblue Band @ Rockwood Music Hall 2
($5) Yo Mamma’s Big Fat Booty Band and Brother Josephus and the Love Revival Revolution Orchestra @ Brooklyn Bowl
($10-$12) Spiritual Rez @ Sullivan Hall
($28-$32) Punch Brothers @ Bowery Ballroom
($32-$117) Masur Conducts Liszt, Gubaidulina, and Brahms @ Avery Fisher Hall (8:00pm)
($62-$74) A Prairie Home Companion w/ Garrison Keillor @ Town Hall
($20-$25) Very Young People’s Concerts – Treble and Bass@ Merkin Concert Hall (12:30pm and 3:00pm)
($30) Chico O’Farrill and the Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra @ Birdland NYC
Monday, April 18th, 2011
($8) Jim Campilongo @ The Living Room
($25) Mingus Orchestra @ The Jazz Standard
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
(Free) Dred Scott Trio @ Rockwood Music Hall (late night)
($10 suggested donation) Mark Guiliana @ Kush NYC
($5) Jam Stampede & Friends @ Brooklyn Bowl
Featuring members of the Zen Tricksters: Klyph Black, Tom Circosta, Dave Diamond plus Mike Mizwinski and Freeman White, Special Guests: Mark Karan (Jemimah Puddleduck, Ratdog) and Kenny Brooks (Alphabet Soup, Ratdog)
($20-$25) Bill Frisell’s Beautiful Dreamers featuring Eyvind Kang & Rudy Royston @ Village Vanguard
($40-$45) An Evening with Cake @Music Hall of Williamsburg
($45) Blue Note Jazz Benefit for Japan featuring Ron Carter, John Scofield, Michel Camilo, Kenny Barron
Wednesday, April 20th, 2011
($12) Rubblebucket @ Le Poisson Rouge
($20-$25) Easy Star Allstars & John Brown’s Body @ Highline Ballroom
($20-$25) Bill Frisell’s Beautiful Dreamers featuring Eyvind Kang & Rudy Royston @ Village Vanguard
Perpetual Groove and Turbine played at the Bowery Ballroom on March 26, 2010. Turbine was slated to play the Sullivan Hall after party with DJ Nutritious but got tapped to open for the band at Bowery. Unfortunately, we didn’t make the show in time to see the opening band but our coats were checked and we were in the venue minutes before Perpetual Groove went on.
Brock Butler @ Bowery Ballroom (03.26.10)
Brock Butler, lead guitar and vocals, has been a favorite of mine for a few years but nothing hit home the way it did when I was privileged enough to enjoy a very intimate show on the Pool Deck of Jam Cruise 8 at 6am as we pulled into the Cayman Islands. He was accompanied by a passenger, Elli Labar, on violin. I can’t describe this moment on the ship, as it was beyond emotional and beyond words at that point in time. But I can show it to you. Enjoy!!
Perhaps I should talk about the show??? Oh, ok, FINE!!! First, let me just state how much I like the band’s name. Perpetual Groove. How fun is that?! Apparently there are some haters when it comes to the name of the band but personally it just MAKES me want to dance! It says flat out: we are hear to rage your face!!
John Hruby @ Bowery Ballroom (03.26.10)
PGroove came out raging as they always do beginning with No Decorations, off their latest CD Heal. It only took to the end of this song for me to have to leave the front of the stage due to all the tweaking under age kids that I wanted to kick in the teeth. Don’t get me started…..
As much as I love Brock, the keyboardist, John Hruby, had my attention most of the night. I am unsure how to describe the way he plays. It is not so much how he plays the instruments but how he moves and smiles and interacts with the crowd AS he plays the instruments. For me, my major point in seeing a live show is being able to actually SEE the artists that I love play their respective instruments. That is huge for me. I like to feel their pain when they sing, watch their fingers when they strum their guitar, watch their feet as they tap to the beat. John was engaging, loud and vibrant in his actions. He gets lost in his playing the same way we close our eyes when a song over takes us. I don’t even think he could help it. And if he can, he sure fooled me.
Set I: No Decorations> The March of Gibbles Army> Speed Queen, A Day the Way, At the Screen, The Golden Path
PGroove is as well known for their ability to cover songs as they are for their own material. With a musical encyclopedia for a brain, Brock Butler can pretty much play anything you ask him to on the spot from rap to rock to reggae. When PGroove headed into Aha’s Take on Me, I immediately turned to my girlfriend and started jumping up and down as John started in on the lyrics. I pictured the video and imagined the entire venue was in black and white and we were all running like mad men down the cartoon hallways. Yall remember that video? At that moment, EVERYONE, regardless if they knew any other song that night, knew that song and we all sang along. Take on Me elevated the energy in the Bowery to its highest point of the night!!! (Enjoy 90% of the song in the following video hahaha!!!)
While playing Mr. Transistor, we got our second cover as they broke into R.L. Burnside’s It’s Bad You Know and returned to finish off Mr. Transistor.
Set II: Mr. Transistor> It’s Bad You Know> Mr Transistor, Cairo, Take on Me, Robot Waltz, Up Again
After PGroove walked off the stage, we all knew not to move and eventually they slowly joined the stage again for the encore. We were handed an intense version of Life, from the album the album All This Everything, which flowed into Stealy Man. Walking out of the venue after the show, I said goodnight to fellow jam cruisers, friends and the like. I took one more glance toward the stage and Frobee Brobee stared at me from the bass amp. The smile on his face mirrored my own. It was a good show! Thank you PGroove! Hope to see you all again soon!
Musical Musings of a Tiny Rager 