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upcoming jazz events: Saturday 2/14 (8pm) "The Symbol of the Unconquered" w/ William Hooker Percussionist William Hooker, the genre-bending free jazz legend, will improvise a sound-track to pioneering African-American filmmaker Oscar Micheauxs 1920 silent film classicoriginally advertised as a chance to come see the annihilation of the Ku Klux Klan. Saturday 2/21 (8pm) "Somebody Blew Up America" w/ Amiri Baraka & Rob Brown The poet icon and political activist Amiri Baraka performs with Rob Brown, one of the New York City downtown music scenes most in-demand saxophonists, in a reading of his new book Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems. Saturday 2/28 (8pm) The Splatto Festival Chorus This rare assembly brings together Todd Reynolds (Bang on a Can, Yo Yo Ma, Meredith Monk) on violins/laptop, Ed Mann (Zappa) on percussion/electronics, David Barrett (Banda Elastica, Splatter Trio) on saxophones, and Michael Bisio on bass. |