Special Event!

7:30:
In August we're handing over the first set to Cisco Bradley for a discussion about his new book.. "The Williamsburg Avant-Garde", out now on Duke University Press. Info Below...

8:30 2nd set Quartet:
Taylor Ho Bynum - cornet
Magdalena Obrego - guitar
Brittany Karlson - bass
Eric Rosenthal - drums

In The Williamsburg Avant-Garde, Cisco Bradley chronicles the rise and fall of the underground music and art scene in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn between the late 1980s and the early 2010s. Building on the neighborhood's punk DIY approach and aesthetic, Williamsburg's free jazz, post-punk, and noise musicians and groups produced shows in a variety of unlicensed venues as well as in clubs and cafes. At the same time, pirate radio station free103point9 and music festivals made Williamsburg an epicenter of New York's experimental culture. In 2005, New York's rezoning act devastated the community as gentrification displaced its participants farther afield in Brooklyn, Queens, and beyond. With this portrait of Williamsburg, Bradley not only documents some of the most vital music of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, he offers thoughts on the formation, vibrancy, and life span of experimental music and art scenes everywhere. Cisco Bradley is associate professor at the Pratt Institute and the author of three books, including The Williamsburg Avant-Garde: Experimental Music and Sound on the Brooklyn Waterfront (2023) and Universal Tonality: The Life and Music of William Parker (2021), both on Duke University Press. He is also the founder and editor of www.jazzrightnow.com as well as the Free Jazz Oral History Project.