BIXOLOGY ::: BABADAN BANDA DE RUA ::: MELVIN GIBBS ::: JOSH ROSEMAN
Loove Labs | 58 N 6th Street, Williamsburg
$10 Suggested Donation
Crossings is a meeting of the minds between HONK NYC + Loove Labs, in collaboration with musicians Melvin Gibbs & Arto Lindsay.
Christen Loove Labs' new space on N12 with music, procession, improvisiation & ritual. Big music & big sounds! Explore the music of the Americas and beyond, paying homage to the rhythm's African origins.
FOR THOSE PARADING WITH US
6pm Line up location TBA for a parade through Williamsburg with special guests
AT LOOVE LABS
6:30pm BIXology
8pm Babadan Banda da Rua
8:30pm Melvin Gibbs’ People Moving
9:30pm Josh Roseman + Friends
Trombonist Josh Roseman was a co-founder of the acid-jazz dance band the Groove Collective in the 1990s and the legendary underground club night Giant Step. A versatile sideman, he has played with Dave Holland, Don Byron, Steve Coleman, Dave Douglas, Jason Moran, the Skatelites, the Roots, John Zorn, Medeski Martin & Wood, Me’Shell NdegeOcello, and the late Lester Bowie, as well as leading his own bands.
Melvin Gibbs is a Grammy nominated composer, musician, artist, and writer, born, raised, and currently based in Brooklyn, N.Y. A prolific veteran of the New York music scene, he was part of the No Wave radical rock-funk-jazz band Defunkt in the 1980s and the Rollins Band in the 1990s. He has been called "the greatest bassist in the world" by Time Out New York magazine and was 2019 winner of JazzTimes Magazine's Critics Poll in the category Electric Bass.
BIXology is a project celebrating the music of Bix Beiderbecke, led by Skyler Hagner. Commissioned for the 2023 HONK NYC! Festival, BIXology performs original arrangements of Beiderbecke’s tunes and other early jazz favorites. Eschewing note for note recreations of the originals, Skyler Hagner's fresh orchestrations and arrangements inspire 21st century feet to jump and jive to his swinging takes on Beiderbecke's dynamic compositions. The tight ensemble work and hot solos will keep you toes tapping - come dance with us!!
Since 2018, Babadan Banda de Rua (Babadan Street Band) has been a vibrant presence in the alleys and streets, theaters, cultural spaces, and carnivals of the great Belo Horizonte area, in Brazil. Their mission is to create an afro-mineiro sound while emphasizing the need for aquilombamento (communitarian connection based on the historical model of Quilombos) and reconnecting with their ancestral roots.