SEPTEMBER 3rd - Tony Malaby's NOVELA: Tony Malaby, Ralph Alessi, Ben Gerstein, Michael Attias, Joachim Badenhorst, Andrew Hadro, Dan Peck, Kris Davis, John Hollenbeck Cornelia St. Cafe - 10:30pm 4th - Tony Malaby's NOVELA - Cornelia St. Cafe - 10:30pm 5th - Tony Malaby's NOVELA - Cornelia St. Cafe - 8:30pm 8th - Steve Swell's Nation of We - Roulette - 8:30pm 9th - Steve Swell's Nation of We - Roulette - 8:30pm 9th - trio with Garth Stevenson & Mat Maneri - Douglass St. Music Collective - 10pm 10th - Steve Swell's Nation of We - Roulette - 8:30pm 12th - with Darius Jones - tba 18th - Banda De Los Muertos - Littlefield - 8pm 19th - duo with Garth Stevenson - Downtown Music Gallery - 6pm 26th - with Darius Jones - tba AUGUST 10th - Tyshawn Sorey's KOAN + 2, w/ Tyshawn Sorey, Todd Neufeld, Thomas Morgan, Chris Tordini - Roulette - 8:30pm JULY 6th - Tony Malaby's NOVELA - The Stone - 10pm 14th - Mike Pride & Jonathan Moritz's Evil Eye - L.I.C. Bar - 8pm 24th - Sam Mickens' "Ecstatic Showband & Revue" - Silent Barn - 9pm 26th - Tim Kuhl group - The Local 269 - 10pm JUNE 12th - Tony Malaby's NOVELA - Search & Restore Festival @ Kenny's Castaways - 10:40pm 11th - Doug Hirlinger trio with Matt Mitchell - Moonstone Arts Center, Philadelphia - 9pm 20th - Ze Couch series - 687 Bushwick Ave. Apt. 2, Bklyn - J/M/Z > Myrtle Ave. - 7pm 23rd - Sam Mickens' "Ecstatic Showband & Revue", with Extra Life - Death By Audio 27th - The Ben Gerstein Collective - Brooklyn Lyceum - 9 & 10:30pm 29th - Tony Malaby session - Vision Festival - Clemente Soto Vélez - 11:30pm MAY 16th - Sam Mickens' "Ecstatic Showband & Revue" - Bowery Ballroom - 9pm APRIL 18th - Sam Mickens' "Ecstatic Showband & Revue" - Union Pool - 9pm 20th - Jeff Davis group - Cornelia St. Cafe - 8:30 & 10pm 23rd - www.musiccreative.org session with Doug Hirlinger & Matt Mitchell 29th - Performance/discussion - Hunter College, Transcription & Analysis in Ethnomusicology - a Dan Voss project 30th - 8pm - w/ Voladores - Douglass St. Music Collective 30th - 10pm - Sextet with Michael Attias, Mat Maneri, Jacob Sacks, Thomas Morgan & Eivind Opsvik - Ibeam, NYSWU Trombone Festival MARCH 5th - Jeff Davis group w/ Rigby, Knuffke, Goldberger, Opsvik - Tea Lounge - 9 & 10:30pm 9th - Shayna Dulberger quintet with Welcome, Moritz & Fujiwara - Dakar - 8pm 22nd - Tony Malaby's NOVELA - The Local 269 - 9pm 26th - Jacob Sacks quintet - Ibeam - 10pm 30th - Shayna Dulberger group with Chris Welcome, Laura Ortman & Shelley Burgon - Cake Shop - 11pm FEBRUARY 12th - Gerstein/Malaby quartet with Dan Peck & Ches Smith - Cornelia St. Cafe - 10:30pm 13th - Gerstein/Malaby quartet with Dan Peck & Ches Smith - Cornelia St. Cafe - 10:30pm 16th - Gerstein/Malaby quartet with Dan Peck & Ches Smith - - Konceptions series - 11pm 20th - Tim Kuhl recording session w/ Moritz, Loriot, Formanek & Goldberger - 58 N. 6th Media Labs JANUARY 8th - "3-0" with Tyshawn Sorey & Terrence McManus - 8pm, Ibeam; 10pm, The Stone 26th - Shayna Dulberger group - Freddy's Bar & Backroom - 10pm 27th - Darius Jones' "Elizabeth-Caroline Unit" - Roulette - 8:30pm 29th - Sam Mickens' "Ecstatic Showband & Revue" - Cake Shop - 11pm 2009 DECEMBER 6th - Capillary Action & Skeletons Big Band - The Stone - 10pm 7th - Shayna Dulberger group with Chris Welcome, Jonathan Moritz & Tomas Fujiwara - The Local 269, Rucma series - 7:30pm NOVEMBER 2nd - Evil Eye with Mike Pride, Jonathan Moritz & Ken Filiano - The Local 269, Rucma series - 7:30pm 3rd - Terrence McManus group w/ Irabagon, Knuffke, Tordini, Carletti - Dakar - 8:30pm 9th - Tim Kuhl group w/ Moritz, Goldberger, Stevenson - Bar4 - 7pm 10th - Trio w/ Michael Attias & Mat Maneri - Douglass Street Music Collective - 9pm 15th - Frederic Rzewski's Last Judgement, for trombone ensemble led by C. Mcintyre - Suzanne Fiol memorial ceremony - St Ann & the Holy Trinity Church - 4pm 20th - Sam Mickens' Ecstatic Showband and Revue - Death by Audio - 8pm OCTOBER 9th - Quartet with Dave Ballou, James Ilgenfritz & Harris Eisenstadt - I-beam - 10pm 12th - Jonathan Goldberger and Devin Gray trio - Bar4 - 8pm 16th - Tyshawn Sorey's "For Kathy Change," with Okkyung Lee & Terrence McManus - The Jazz Gallery - 9 & 10:30pm 23rd - Sam Mickens' Ecstatic Showband and Revue - Monster Island Basement 25th - Evil Eye with Mike Pride, Jonathan Moritz & Ken Filiano - Zebulon - 10pm 29th - Shayna Dulberger group with Chris Welcome, Jonathan Moritz & Tomas Fujiwara - Roulette - 8:30pm SEPTEMBER 10th - Tim Kuhl group w/ Garth Stevenson & Chris Welcome - Goodbye Blue Monday - 10pm 18th The Gates BG - trombone, turntables; Jacob Garchik - computer, accordion; Jacob Sacks, Craig Taborn - keyboard; Thomas Morgan, Eivind Opsvik - bass; Dan Weiss, John McLellan - drums. New Languages Festival - McCarren Hall - 8:30pm 26th - Chess-in-the-Parks Rapid Open 27th - Gerstein/Malaby - Downtown Music Gallery - 7pm 30th - Quartet with Tony Malaby, John Hebert and Dan Weiss - The Local 269 - 10pm AUGUST 15th - a Collective: Gerstein, Sacks, Garchik, Morgan, Weiss, Malaby - The Stone - 10pm 18th - Ballou, Gerstein, Ilgenfritz, Eisenstadt - Dakar - 8:30pm 26th - Tyshawn Sorey's Wu Wei - The Stone - 10pm 27th - Tyshawn Sorey's Wu Wei - The Stone - 8pm 28th - Tyshawn Sorey's Wu Wei - The Stone - 8pm 29th - Sam Mickens' Ecstatic Showband and Revue - The Market Hotel - 8pm JULY 21st - Jonathan Finlayson's Sicylian Defense - The Stone - 10pm JUNE 6-13 - St. John! 18th - Kuhl, Gerstein, McManus, Loriot, Ilgenfritz - Goodbye Blue Monday - 10pm MAY 15th - Sam Mickens' Ecstatic Showband and Revue - Zebulon - 10pm & midnight 21st - a Tim Kuhl trio - Goodbye Blue Monday - 11pm 31st - Gerstein, Moritz, Loriot, Opsvik, Pride - Coco 66 - 11pm APRIL 10th - Jacob Sacks Quintet - I-beam - 10pm 11th - BG, Tony Malaby, Jacob Sacks, Jacob Garchik, Dan Weiss - I-beam - 10pm 14th - a Tim Kuhl trio - Goodbye Blue Monday - 10pm 16th - with Pete Robbins and Terry McManus - Le Grand Dakar - 8 & 10pm 18th - TILT brass ensemble - I-beam - 8pm 25th - Darius Jones' Bliss - Roulette - 8:30pm MARCH 2nd - Mike Pride's Drummer's Corpse - Death By Audio - 9pm 15th - with Doug Hirlinger & Matt Mitchell - SciFi Philly @ Gojjo, West Philadelphia - 8pm FEBRUARY 2nd - B.G., J.M., E.O., B.S., M.P. - Goodbye Blue Monday - 10pm 13th - Craig Taborn's Ancients and Moderns - ICA, Boston - 7:30pm 20th & 21st - with Darius Jones and X-tra Bullets - Cunningham Dance Studio - 8pm - info 24th - with Ryan Mackstaller and Tim Kuhl - Goodbye Blue Monday - 10pm 26th - Sam Mickens' Ecstatic Showband and Revue - Zebulon - 9pm 28th - duets with Mat Maneri - 796 Grand, off the L - 9pm JANUARY 11th - trio with Kirk Knuffke and Jonathan Moritz - ABC No Rio - 8pm 12th - with Ryan Mackstaller and Tim Kuhl - Goodbye Blue Monday - 10pm 30th - Improv Night at The Stone - 8pm 31st - the UP - The Stone - 10pm 2008 DECEMBER 2nd - Darius Jones concert - Black Box Theatre - 8pm 8th - Lola Danza group - Stain Bar - 8:30pm 10th - with Ryan Mackstaller & Tim Kuhl group - Goodbye Blue Monday - 10pm 21st - MENORAH HERZOG, with Jacob Garchik, Brandon Seabrook & Mike Pride - Coco 66 - 9pm [ 10pm - Nate Wooley; 11pm - Jack Wright, Brandon Seabrook, Mike Pride ] 31st - Lola Danza group - Brecht Forum - 8pm NOVEMBER 2nd - BANDA SINALOENSE DE LOS MUERTOS - Barbes - 8:30pm 12th - Ryan Mackstaller/Tim Kuhl group - Club Europa - 9pm 18th - Tim Kuhl group - Lakeside Lounge - 10pm OCTOBER 5th - Eivind Opsvik's Overseas - 55 Bar - 9:30pm 8th - Ryan Mackstaller/Tim Kuhl group - Club Europa - 9pm 11th - Duets with Jacob Sacks - I-beam - 8pm 24th - trio with Jacob Garchik & Brandon Seabrook - I-beam - 8pm SEPTEMBER 18th - Dakar - 8:30pm - Dave Ballou trio AUGUST 12-13th - Steve Swell's Nation of We - Roulette - 8:30pm 14-24th - England: Canterbury, London, Northleach JULY 10th - Michael Attias's 40 Guns - Michael Attias, Ben Gerstein, Anthony Coleman, Mary Halvorson, Ches Smith - The Stone - 10pm 15th - Dan Weiss group - 55 Bar - 11:15pm (second set) 19th - Mike Pride's Drummer's Corpse - Silent Barn - 7pm 27th - Lola Danza group with Mat Maneri & John Hebert - Brecht Forum - 8:30pm JUNE 12th - Tyshawn Sorey group - Living Theatre, New Languages Festival - 10pm 20th - with Todd Neufeld & Gerald Cleaver - I-Beam - 9pm MAY 12th - Eivind Opsvik, Hakon Kornstad group - Nublu - 10pm 13th - Ryan Mackstaller group - Glasslands Gallery - 9pm 22nd - Tyshawn Sorey Quartet - Roulette - 8:30pm MARCH 23rd - Duets with Tyshawn Sorey - Jimmy's - 7pm 25th - solo - Infrequent Seams series - 8pm 25th - Dan Weiss group - 55 Bar - 10pm FEBRUARY 23rd - Tyshawn Sorey's THAT/NOT Quartet - Jazz Gallery - 9 & 10:30pm JANUARY 8th - Mike Pride's DRUMMER'S' CORPSE - Zebulon - 10pm 22nd - Dan Weiss group - Konception's Series - Bisquit Barbeque - 8:30pm 2007 DECEMBER 2nd - 4-hand piano improvisations & Soto Velez with Tyshawn Sorey - The Stone - 8pm 4th - Dan Weiss group - tba - 8:30pm 9th - MOTH - Cornelia St. Cafe - 9pm 10th - Dan Weiss duets concert - Zebulon - t.b.a. 30th - with Dave Ballou - Jimmy's NOVEMBER 21st - with James Ilgenfritz & Dave Ballou - The Stone - 10pm 21st - the UP - Zebulon - 11:30 26th - Rocket Engine - The Annex OCTOBER 2nd - the UP - Rebar - 8:30 & 10pm 13th - Rocket Engine, CD-release concert - The Cake Shop - 9pm 14th - duets with Judith Berkson - CIM - 9:30pm 17th - Andrew Bishop's Curio Cabinet - Edgefest, Ann Arbor, MI 21st - trio with Michael Attias & Terry McManus - DMG - 6pm 21st - Ryan Mackstaller group - Goodbye Blue Monday - 10pm 24th - 3-0 - Zebulon - 10pm SEPTEMBER 14th - trio with Jonathan Moritz & John McLellan - CIM - 8:00pm 23rd - Billy Mintz Two Bass Band - CIM - 8:00 & 9:30pm 27th - Tyshawn Sorey's Soto Valez - Puppet's Jazz Bar - 9:00pm AUGUST 1st - Tony Malaby's Novela - Barbes - 8 & 10pm 5th - Tyshawn Sorey's Soto Valez - Bar 4 - 8:30pm 11th - Tony Malaby's Novela - Cornelia St. Cafe - 9 & 10:30pm 31st - Curtis Hasselbring/Andrew D'Angelo Big Band Celebration - Tea Lounge - 9:00pm JULY 8th - with James Ilgenfritz and Harris Eisenstadt - Downtown Music Gallery - 6pm 22nd - with Todd Neufeld and Gerald Cleaver - Downtown Music Gallery - 6pm 24th - Tyshawn Sorey group - Puppet's Jazz Bar - 9:00pm 29th - The Ben Gerstein Collective - Bar 4 - 8:30-10:00pm JUNE 1st - Chris McIntyre's 7x7 - The Stone - 10pm 4th - 7x7 recording session - Issue Project Room 4th - Duo with Dan Weiss - Bar 169 - 11pm 10th - Tyshawn Sorey's Soto Valez band + Duo with Jonathan Moritz - 363 Prospect Ave., B'klyn - 8pm 13th - Tyshawn Sorey's Soto Valez band - Puppet's Jazz Bar - 9:00pm 14th - The UP - The Stone - 10pm 17th - Todd Neufeld group - Rose Live Music - 9pm 29th - Trombonophilia Finale - The Stone - 8pm MAY 1st - Tyshawn Sorey Quartet - Mo Pitkin's - 11pm 3rd-5th - Tyshawn Sorey recording session - Firehouse 12 6th - MOTH - "You Are Here" Sculptural Maze - 9pm 13th - Gerstein DJing - "You Are Here" Sculptural Maze - 5-11pm 16th - The UP - Barbes - 8pm 19th - Tony Malaby's Novela - Lex Leonard Gallery - 8pm 20th - 3-0 - "You Are Here" Sculptural Maze - 10pm 24th - MOTH - "You Are Here" Sculptural Maze - 9pm 25th - 8:00pm: Jacob Sacks Quintet; 9:00pm: Nate Wooley ensemble - Rose Theatre 26th - Tony Malaby's Novela - Cornelia St. Cafe' - 9 & 10pm APRIL 2nd - Tyshawn Sorey group - Bar 4 - 8:00pm 3rd - Miguel Zenon recording session - Legacy Studios 25th - duo with Ohad Talmor - tba 26th - Tyshawn Sorey Quartet - Jazz Gallery - 9pm 29th - Judith Berkson's Liederkreiss - Bar 4 - 9pm MARCH 3rd - Hong-Kai Wang recording project 3rd - Slavic Soul Party - Bulgarian bar, Mehanata - 9-11pm 4th - Tyshawn Sorey Quartet - Jimmy's - 9pm 4th - a Jacob Sacks Quintet - 55 Bar - 10pm FEBRUARY 21st - Mike Pride's "Drummer's Corpse" - Tonic - 8pm 22nd - with Yoshiko Chuma - Vision Dance Music Series - Symphony Space - 8pm 24th - with Yoshiko Chuma - Vision Dance Music Series - Symphony Space - 8:30pm 25th - Jeff Davis Quintet - Jimmy's - 9pm 28th - MOTH - The Stone - 8pm JANUARY 6th - MOTH - 9pm - West Nile (285 Kent Ave., btwn. S. 1st + 2nd Sts., Bkln) 7th - Billy Mintz Two Bass Band - Bar 4 - 8-11pm 9th - Tyshawn Sorey Quartet - The Stone - 8 & 10pm 14th - Harris Eisenstadt trio - Jimmy's - 7pm 17th - MOTH - Zs family show - tba 20th - the UP - Prospect Series [363 Prospect Ave. + 7th ave., B'klyn] - 8pm 24th - Tyshawn Sorey's Oblique - The Stone - 8 & 10pm 28th - Jen Shyu - Jade Tongue, "Ritual" - The Stone - 8 & 10pm 31st - Tyshawn Sorey's Oblique - Barbes - 9pm 2006 DECEMBER 1st - with Tony Malaby's Tuba Trio - Cornelia St. Cafe - 9 & 10:30pm 2nd - MOTH - Cake Shop - 10pm 3rd-10th - MOTH tour t.b.a. 16th - 3-0 - Stain Bar - 9pm 19th - Tyshawn Sorey's Oblique Trio + 1 - Bowery Poetry Club - 10pm NOVEMBER 2nd - Mike Pride's Big Fu--ing Sellout Band - Tea Lounge 5th - "Music with Ben Gerstein" - collaborations - 55 Bar - 10pm-1am 7th - Slavic Soul Party - Barbes - 9pm 10th - Slavic Soul Party - Joe's Pub - 9pm 11th - MOTH; "From Bacteria To Boys"; Jonathan Moritz & Chris Welcome; Opsvik & Jennings - Cake Shop - 9pm 12th - Tyshawn Sorey's Oblique - Bar 4 - 8-11pm 16th - MOTH - Zebulon - 10pm 18th: - Tyshawn Sorey's Oblique - Vision Festival - Clemente Soto Velez Sea Theater OCTOBER 5th: - MOTH - Glass House - 9pm Mat Maneri's Pentagon: [Mat Maneri, viola; Joe Maneri, saxophone, organ; Ben Gerstein, trombone; Craig Taborn, keyboard; John Hebert, bass; John McLellan, drums] 21st: - Portland, ME - venue t.b.a. 22nd: - Boston, MA - venue t.b.a. 23rd: - Montreal, Canada - Casa del Popolo 25th: - Philadelphia, PA - Ars Nova Workshop - 8pm 26th: - NYC - Tonic - 8pm 28th: - Zs - MOTH - Extra Life - other Zs family projects... BAM Cafe - 9pm SEPTEMBER 9th: - with Dan Weiss, Jacob Sacks, Miles Okazaki and Dave Ambrosio - 8:30pm - CIM 11th: - MOTH - 11pm - Goodbye Blue Monday 16th: - Tyshawn Sorey's Oblique - 8:30pm - CIM 24th: - MOTH - 11pm - Cake Shop AUGUST 3rd + 4th - MORT - a play on Morton Feldman 7th: - MOTH [see projects] - 8:00pm - Cake Shop (also Mary Halvorson + Ches Smith, Child Abuse, and Flying Lutenbachers) 9th: - The Ben Gerstein Collective - 10:00pm - Barbes 21st: - MOTH [see projects] - 8:00pm - Spiegeltent (also Darmstadt with Ginsberg, and Mathew Welsch's Blarvuster) 25th: - MOTH [see projects] - Empty Vessel Project - 9:00pm - (also Dirty Projectors, Zeke Healy, Nat Baldwin, and Extra Life) 26th: - Slavic Soul Party! - 2:00-3:30pm - Spiegeltent 26th: - MOTH [see projects] - Cake Shop - t.b.a. JULY 2nd: The Ben Gerstein Collective - 8-11pm - Bar 4 6th: 8:00pm - The Stone - Music by composer Rama Gottfried 9:30 & 11:00pm - a Jacob Sacks Quartet, with Thomas Morgan and Dan Weiss - Detour 7th - 9:00 & 10:30 - Mike Pride's "Big F***ing Sellout Big Band!" - Tea Lounge 9th: - 7:00 & 9:00pm - with Tyshawn Sorey's "Oblique" (Loren Stillman, Terry McManus, Jacob Sacks, Chris Lightcap, Tyshawn Sorey) - Jimmy's 18th: - 3-0 - 11:00pm - Bar Sputnik 30th: - 8-11pm - with Tyshawn Sorey's "Oblique" (Loren Stillman, Terry McManus, Jacob Sacks, Chris Lightcap, Tyshawn Sorey) - Bar 4 JUNE 7-11th: MOTH - D.C.>Baltimore>Philadelphia>Boston>NYC - t.b.a. 20th: 3-0 - Bowery Poetry Club - 9:30pm 24th: Slavic Soul Party - Barbes - 9:00pm-Midnight 30th: UP - 7-11pm - Pochron Studios, Dumbo Arts Festival - 20 Jay St. 11th floor, F train to York MAY 30th: 55 Bar - 10:30pm-1:30am - with Tony Malaby, Ohad Talmor, Ben Monder, Miles Okazaki, Jacob Sacks, Thomas Morgan, Dan Weiss APRIL 1st MOTH - Glass House - 9:30pm 6th MOTH - Glass House - time tba 8th UP - Prospect Series - 8:00pm 24th duo with Eivind Opsvik - Mundial - 8pm MARCH 4th MOTH - Tommy's Tavern - 9pm 8th with Tone Collector - BARBES 13th The Ben Gerstein Collective - 7:00 - 9:00pm - 55 Bar 17th MOTH - 10pm - The Cake Shop (152 Ludlow St.) 23rd trio with Jonathan Moritz and Judith Berkson - The Spoken Word (226 4th Avenue, Park Slope) - 9:00pm 29th MOTH - Mighty Robot - 9:30pm