upcoming and current events
FEBRUARY 22ND
Location: 238 N12th Brooklyn NY 11221 near McCarren Park in Williamsburg.
Doors - 7PM, Performance - 7:30PM.
Completely new music, concept and ensemble from London, not to be missed-!
Featuring Frank London- Trumpet, Erica Mancini- Accordion, James Paul Nadien- Drums, Lynn Ligammari- Saxophone, Ron Caswell- Tuba, Michael Winograd- Clarinet
past events
FEBRUARY 15TH
Location: 238 N12th Brooklyn NY 11221 near McCarren Park in Williamsburg.
Doors - 7PM, Performance - 7:30PM.
The original! NYC's pre-eminent creative Klezmer ensemble.
Frank London, Eleanor Reissa- vocals, Michael Winograd- Clarinet, Brian Drye- Trombone, Ron Caswell- Tuba, Aaron Alexander- Drums
Featuring Frank London- Trumpet, Ben Stapp- Tuba, Reut Regev- Trombone, Charles Burnham- Violin, Tony Lewis- Snare Drum, Satoshi Takeishi- Bass Drum
FEBRUARY 1ST
Location: 238 N12th Brooklyn NY 11221 near McCarren Park in Williamsburg.
Doors - 7PM, Performance - 7:30PM.
A wide-ranging chamber brass trio with powerful percussion, with new recording on Tzadik records: "A startling new take on the deep tradition of music for brass and percussion, informed by Latin, New Orleans, Soundtrack, Ragtime & the Avant Garde"
With Frank London- Trumpet, Josh Roseman- Trombone, Ben Stapp- Tuba, Kenny Wollesen- Drums, Onel Matos- Congas
FEBRUARY 8TH
A conceptual re-imagining of the music of the American Revolution with super strong improvisors London, Charles Burnham, Reut Regev, Ben Stapp, Takeishi and Lewis on drums
Featuring Frank London- Trumpet, Ben Stapp- Tuba, Reut Regev- Trombone, Charles Burnham- Violin, Tony Lewis- Snare Drum, Satoshi Takeishi- Bass Drum
Location: 238 N12th Brooklyn NY 11221 near McCarren Park in Williamsburg.
Doors - 7PM, Performance - 7:30PM.
Loove Presents: WJF
Winter Jazzfest celebrates the music as a living entity, wherein history collides with the future in every note. Creative improvisation in the digital age continues to stimulate thought and emotion of its listeners, embracing innovation, defying instrumental boundaries and the old cliches of “What is Jazz?”
Winter Jazzfest is the annual New York home to the exciting and forward-thinking contemporary jazz music being made today. NYC’s largest Jazz festival attracts a unique, deeply engaged, discerning audience, a diverse range of cultural enthusiasts and music fans from across North America and from over 20 countries. The festival also plays host to attendees of the annual Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP), who attend Winter Jazzfest in order to discover new talents.
DECEMBER 20
Chris Cochrane- glass, string, accidents, & intentions
An evening of strings, vocals, glass, crazy timbres, electronics, intentions and accidents- featuring CHRIS COCHRANE, a master of extended guitar sound.
First of two trio sets will feature Seattle semi-feral cellist Lori Goldston, with celebrated violist / composer Jessica Pavone.
Second set to feature Viv Corringham, electronic musician, vocalist and "Shadow Walk pioneer," Miguel Frasconi using modular synths and glass objects to create music from deeply personal landscape- to be joined by Goldston and Pavone to complete the evening.
LOOVE Annex is a new artist-operated independent salon space and cafe, set to formally open in January of 2025
DECEMBER 21
Saturday Dec.21 1PM-10PM @ LOOVE Annex 238 N12 ST BKLYN NY
This day-long event is free and all are welcome.
Join MOMENT NYC, Loove Labs, and House of Honk's celebration of community, creative work, family and friends on this winter solstice.
The Now MOMENT
Meet, make, talk, listen, play, dance! We're built for it, and it's the best way to prepare the collective ground for the new season - and our work to construct beauty and possability together in the future.
Featuring:
* Honk NYC’s Master Makers’ Table: all ages crafting: 1-5pm
* El Kikiriki Biquey: Afro-Cuban rumba session: 2-4:30pm
* HONK Family Band Radiant Revelry Parade for Make Music Winter: 4:30pm leaving from and return to 238 N12
* The Honk Family Band / Loove Space Opening Ritual/Ceremony 5:30pm
* 100 Years of Lower East Side Music History- live exhibit by MOMENT NYC: 5:45pm
* Clara Joy: 6:30pm
* HONK Family Band inside set: 7pm
* FRANK LONDON's BRASS CONSPIRACY: 8pm
* LOOVE COSMIC ARTS ENSEMBLE: 8:30pm
* The NOW Solstice Collective9:15pm
* The Winter Solstice Ensemble 9pm
*Ghost Band Plays Ghost Venues, Williamsburg: 10pm
NOVEMBER 23
Saturday Nov 23 @7:30PM
Saturday, Nov 23, LOOVE Annex presents new sound possibilities with the Ayumi Ishito / Daniel Carter / Kate Mohanty wind trio- extraordinary sound thinkers, all. The LOOVE rain squad follows, a special tuba and organ soundbath featuring Brittany Anjou, Ben Stapp, Josh Roseman and special guests TBC.
the Annex is a new space for performance and imagination on McCarren Park, please join us.
Saturday Nov. 23, Dec. 7, Dec. 2 @2:00pm-4:30pm
El Kikiriki Biquéy
A deep community Rumba gathering at LOOVE Annex
Formed in 2019 by a diverse group of New York musicians, El Kikiriki Biquey focuses on educating, presenting and just plain getting down with RUMBA, here in the BK!
In Cuba, the word RUMBA! means “PARTY!”, a festive practice that includes music, dance, chants, gestures hand-clapping, and aims to connect people, regardless of their social and economic background, gender, or ethnicity!
As a style of music, RUMBA! is a style of Afro-Cuban music centered around syncopated drumming and singing. The music is meant to be pondered and analyzed- but overall, to be danced to.
Hope you’ll Join us for this gathering in clave, culture, and community.
At Loove Annex, 238 N12 St, Brooklyn
(near McCarren Park’s weekly Farmers’ Market)
Saturday November 23rd from 2-4:30PM!
Donations are appreciated but not required
NOVEMBER 15 2024
Friday November 15 2 Sets @7:30, and 9:00
Join cornetist Stephen Haynes for a rare NYC appearance as he shares new and evolving music for brass and woodwind. Analogous to a front porch conversation between friends, framed in the context of free music practice. A generative response to recent events. Expect the unexpected.
Stephen Haynes is a modern master of expressive color, space and timbre. In this special all-acoustic presentation, Haynes will construct a living sound field with close colleagues Sam Newsome, a soprano sax pioneer whose PVC / soprano integration needs to be heard to be believed, tuba virtuoso Ben Stapp - known to control multiple tuba instruments simultaneously, extraordinary improvising trumpet player Kenny Warren, and Josh Roseman on tenor trombone and tuba.
Remarkably, Haynes is known to present the entire cornet family “in their own voice,” and this will be a unique occasion to hear the full range and shared tapestry of the brass family in a broad, collaborative environment.
With the possibility of TBA special guests on the second set.
Two sets, with doors opening at 7PM at the new LOOVE ANNEX, 238 North 12 St on McCarren Park in Williamsburg.
JANUARY 27
Kamikaze Ground Crew (8:30) / Frank London’s ¡No Pasarán! (7:00) - Saturday, Jan 27
Sets begin at 7 & 8:30. Kamikaze Ground Crew - originally formed to accompany the Flying Karamazov Brothers for their more extended theatrical productions, this band became the vehicle for co-leaders Doug Wieselman and Gina Leishman’s original compositions and arrangements.
Frank London’s newest project is the brass trio with percussion ¡No Pasarán! The group was formed to perform London’s score for Jody Oberfelder’s dance piece, Rube G., and has included many of NY’s best players. They have performed around NYC and at Boston’s Revolutionary Voices Festival, where they played a special program of reinvented early American Fife & Drum music.
JANUARY 28
Trio Froopy - dubby bone situation with Kang Froopy, Jon Maron and Jason Nazary / Jan 28, 3:30
Join us January 28 at 3:30pm for Toy Store Sessions 10 featuring the prolific bassist Jonathan Maron & Josh Roseman of Groove Collective, in a colorful encounter with sound artist / drummer extraordinaire Jason Nazary.
Josh Roseman AKA Ras Crayola or Kang Froopy is a low brass worker heavily influenced by spectralism, dub and harmolodics.
Jonathan Maron is one of the musical, dynamic and creative bassists orbited by the moon.
Jason Nazary is an original rhythmic thinker blending electronic and acoustic timbres, drawing influence from Tony Williams to J Dilla to Morton Feldman to Lightning Bolt.
JANUARY 7
Peter Apfelbaum Hieroglyphics Quartet - Toy Store Sessions 7
Join us January 7th at 3pm for an afternoon of music, Toy Store Sessions 07, featuring the mighty Peter Apfelbaum, Josh Roseman, Noah Garabedian, and Marcelo Perez. Peter Apfelbaum is an American jazz saxophonist, pianist, drummer, and composer. Apfelbaum is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist who has s worked with artists as diverse as Don Cherry, Kronos Quartet, Omar Sosa and Phish.
JANUARY 13
WINTER JAZZ FEST
Winter Jazz Fest, annual marathon of forward favorites, is coming up, Jan 10-18th, the evening of the 13th at Loove Labs featuring Anna Webber, Kate Gentile, Simon Moullier, and Roy Nathanson’s 82 Days.