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Brooklyn Jazz Underground Presents The 10th Annual BJU Festival @ Smalls & Shapeshifter Lab!

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The Brooklyn Jazz Underground is a coalition of artists united by aesthetics as well as geography. --The New York Times
BROOKLYN JAZZ UNDERGROUND Presents
The 10th Annual Brooklyn Jazz Underground Festival
@ Smalls & Shapeshifter on August 17 & 18!

The Brooklyn Jazz Underground is an association of independent artists with a shared commitment to creativity and community. Through cooperative efforts, the BJU aims to build a greater awareness of original music emerging from Brooklyn, NY.

January, 2007 saw the birth of The Brooklyn Jazz Underground, a collective conceived in the spirit of an entrepreneurial, do-it- yourself movement in the current music industry, and the emergence of myriad independent artists and record labels, spawning a creative boom which counts Brooklyn as one of its bastions of innovation and artistry.

The Brooklyn Jazz Underground, Tammy Scheffer (voice), Adam Kolker (saxophone, woodwinds), Dave Smith (trumpet), Anne Mette Iversen (bass), Rob Garcia, Owen Howard (drums) & Dave Cook (piano), an uber-creative group contributing mightily to the vibrancy of the jazz and improvised music scene in Brooklyn and beyond, proudly announces The 10th Annual Brooklyn Jazz Underground Festival, to take place at Smalls in Greenwich Village on August 17, and Shapeshifter Lab in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn on August 18. The Festival will feature BJU members leading their ensembles in performances of original music, much of it comprised of new works.

The 10th Annual Brooklyn Jazz Underground Festival Schedule of Events:

Smalls, August 17

$20 for the entire evening. Smalls is located at 183 W. 10th Street, NYC

7:30 PM
Owen Howard Trio
Owen Howard-drums, Jason Rigby-saxophone, Matt Clohesy-bass

8:45 PM
Kolker/Cardenas/Mintz + Woodwind Trio
Adam Kolker-saxophone, woodwinds, Steve Cardenas-guitar, Billy Mintz-drums, Lawrence Feldman-flute, David Gould- clarinet, Jackie Henderson-bassoon

10:00 PM
David Smith Quartet
David Smith-trumpet, David Cook-piano, Gary Wang-bass, Anthony Pinciotti-drums

11:15 PM
The Brooklyn Jazz Underground
Performing music from their album “A Portrait Of Brooklyn, and more
Tammy Scheffer-voice, David Smith-trumpet, Adam Kolker-saxophone, David Cook-piano, Carlo De Rosa-bass, Owen Howard- drums, Rob Garcia-drums

Shapeshifter Lab, August 18

$15 for the entire evening. Shapeshifter Lab is located at 18 Whitwell Place, Brooklyn, NY

7:00 PM
David Cook Quintet
David Cook-piano, John Ellis-saxophone, David Smith-trumpet, Matt Clohesy-bass, Mark Ferber-drums

8:15 PM
Rob Garcia Trio
Rob Garcia-drums, Steve Cardenas-guitar, Matt Pavolka-bass

9:30 PM
Tammy Scheffer Sextet + Voices
Tammy Scheffer-voice, Uri Gurvich-alto saxophone, Dan Pratt-tenor & soprano, Billy Test-piano, Daniel Foose-bass, Jared Schonig-drums, Aubrey Johnson, Katie Seiler, Tomas Cruz-voice

“... the spirit of the organization is firmly rooted in Brooklyn. All of the members reside there, and they wanted to give a nod to the vitality of its scene."—The Wall Street Journal

“...these renegade BJU bands are comprised of intelligent composers, open-minded arrangers and free-spirited improvisers. They all deserve to be heard."—JazzTimes Magazine

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