Live Jazz in New York

About LOUNDOVING projects presents: DANCE/MUSICan evening of new, reimagined and improvised music and dance works.Featuring:LISA LA TOUCHE (tap dance)MICHAEL J. LOVE (tap dance)KALEENA MILLER (tap dance)ABY WOLF (vocals and electronics)LAURA WOLF (cello and vocals)

About Featuring seven poets and five musicians, All the Birds Sing Bass is a collaborative event aimed at shifting our sonic and lyric geographies. The event is curated by the87press Founding Director and Caribbean Philosophical Association’s Poet Laureate, Azad Ashim Sharma.This event is free to attend but donations are accepted and encouraged. All donations will support the Silver Anniversary Endowment Campaign for the Caribbean Philosophical Association (CPA) which aims to increase financial resources for students and academics in the Global South, along with the creation of scholarships for graduate students to attend various conferences and summer schools.

About Spring is turning to Summer. A Sword is a band led by Josiah. They are playing with Kaib and Great Crane at The Francis Kite Club.A Sword is the project of Josiah Martuscello.Kaib is the home for the songs written by drummer and guitar player Kai Barshack.Great Crane, Eli Recht-Appel's solo project, takes the stage after a six year hiatus!

Back in 2023, bassist Peter Kerlin and drummer Rob Smith ritualistically burnt their passports, ate the ashes, and began conspiring together under the guise of Animal, Surrender! Together they ask: “Yet when an animal catches its own distorted reflection in the rolling river, what is left to do but surrender to the song?”."Sleepy" Doug Shaw (aka Highlife) is a London born songwriter living and performing in New York since 2003. As he sings and speaks Shaw picks intricate, hypnotic finger patterns, building circles into webs of entrancing repetition on the same old '29 model Gibson that was gifted to Robert Johnson. He counts among influences Desert Blues, Kora mastery, old Calypso, Raga, Chicago Footwork, UK Grime, Spiritual Jazz, Rambler's laments, Kuduro.Shaw moonlights in sways as Gang Gang Dance's bassist and was formerly long-time guitarist and multi-instrumentalist of Drag City group White Magic as well as Sierra Leonean star “Bubu King” Janka Nabay’s band. He has also contributed to records of Cass McCombs, Hal Wilner, Eric Copeland, etc and has shared stages around the globe with the likes of Lou Reed, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Animal Collective, Mdou Moctar, Dizzee Rascal, Terry Riley, Yoko Ono, Bert Jansch, Black Dice, Les Filles de Illighadad, Sonic Youth, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Michael Hurley and many more.Shenke/Shaffie/Bracken is a new trio:Jonny ShenkeA Brooklyn-based music producer, recording engineer, mixing engineer, and musician known for working with indie rock and alternative artists like Parquet Courts, The Drums, Liars, Snail Mail, and Nation of Language. He co-owns Studio Windows and has contributed to hundreds of records.Arian ShaffieA Brooklyn based guitarist/improviser most known for his playing in the off-kilter dance punk band Guerilla Toss. Growing up with Iranian/Turkish parents, he peripherally absorbed various middle eastern musics, blurring their lyrical and harmonic mainstays into his writing and improvising. By using fretless, microtonal, and acoustic guitars, Arian aims to process these stylized genres into an organic music, free of idiom and convention.Corey BrackenA composer, performer, improviser, curator, and artistic administrator currently residing in Ridgewood, New York City. Recent projects have included REAL ADULT, Ashcan Orchestra , Sunwatchers, American Football, Birthmark, Yonatan Gat, KATIEE, LoftOpera, String Orchestra of Brooklyn, Iktus Percussion, and various performance activities as an improviser, noise artist, percussionist, and drummer.

Launch of The Complicit Lens with Rashid Khalidi and Robin AndersenJoin the livestreamThe Complicit LensThis vitally necessary and carefully researched book examines the way US establishment media ran interference for Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, aligning its coverage with Israeli military narratives whilst downplaying, and even condoning, the wholesale massacre of Palestinians.Commencing with the October 7, 2023, attack, The Complicit Lens scrutinizes mainstream journalism, contrasting it with social media reports and international news coverage. It reveals how legacy media presented Israeli violence as defensive and justified, casting doubt on IDF bombings, employing passive language to deflect blame for atrocities, and repeating Israeli talking points, often word-for-word. Massacres of those seeking food became “aid-related deaths,” whilst missile attacks on tented refugees were “tragic mistakes.” Meanwhile, well-worn tropes of war propaganda, including claims of the beheading of babies and mass rapes, subsequently revealed to be without foundation, were used to justify Israeli actions and obscure culpability.Andersen documents the targeting of journalists and aid workers in what has become the deadliest conflict for each on record. She spotlights the editorial censorship that prohibited the use of terms such as “genocide” and “massacre” in the reporting of Palestinian deaths. And, as global protests against the Gaza genocide gathered strength, she examines the hostile media portrayal of these uprisings, particularly those led by young people and Jewish organizations.

4 stride piano killers battle Harlem-style—hot jazz, cocktails, Charleston dancing & no mercy. June 11 at Francis Kite Club In the golden age of Harlem, the piano cutting session was the ultimate proving ground. No backing band. No safety net. Just two hands, eighty-eight keys, and the nerve to step up and cut the man before you. Da Lion's Den II resurrects that raw, unfiltered tradition. Four pianists with serious chops go head to head — pushing each other harder with every chorus, raising the temperature with every round. The music will be hot, the room will be moving, and cocktails will be flowing all night long at the Francis Kite Club — an elegant intimate bar curated for exactly this kind of evening. This is Harlem Stride the way it was meant to be heard — loud, live, and dangerous.

Launch of Red Card with author Jules Boykoff, Brenda Elsey and Dave Zirin co-hosted by Golden GoalJoin the livestreamRed Card: The 2026 World Cup, Sportswashing, and the FIFA Greed MachinePublishing on the eve of the soccer World Cup in the United States, Mexico, and Canada, this concise, power-packed philippic provides a critical take on the dark underbelly of the beautiful game at its most storied moment.At the heart of this analysis by acclaimed sportswriter and scholar Jules Boykoff, who himself played soccer professionally, is the concept of sportswashing, where political leaders use sports to stoke nationalism and legitimize themselves on the world stage, deflecting from chronic problems at home. Step forward the recipient of the newly cast FIFA Peace Prize, Donald J. Trump, a titan unrivaled in squeegeeing every drop of personal wealth and prestige from hosting the competition. In this, he is ably assisted by a governing body of global soccer dripping in patronage and corruption.In these pages Boykoff demonstrates that it is possible to simultaneously treasure the skills and athleticism displayed on the pitch while lamenting their exploitation by malevolent powerbrokers for whom love of the game means nothing next to turning a buck or harvesting prestige. And, as Red Card so skillfully shows, this bait and switch is not confined to soccer. Precisely the same legerdemain will be used to distract and enrich when the Olympic Games come to Los Angeles two years from now.

About Come to The Kite for toe-tapping tunes brought by Buck And A Quarter at Swing Night! Doors at 8PM, with a dance lesson to get your feet moving in style at 8:15PM, then there is dancing at 8:45PM on the big wood floor!$10 cover at the door, cash or Venmo. Give the password “swordfish” for a discounted admission: $15 for two!Buck And A Quarter Quartet is the NYC-based string band that plays the forgotten gems and favorites of the golden age of American pop and vintage-inspired originals in their own category-defying style, described as ‘skiffle meets Cole Porter’ and ‘what do you call this kind of music?’