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Melvin Gibbs' Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2 Listening Party
October 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
154 Orchard St.
FourOneOne and Sound+Science celebrate composer, producer, writer and bassist Melvin Gibbs’ new album, the avant-jazz odyssey and homage to electric-era Miles, Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2 (Hausu Mountain, 2025). Join Gibbs, writer Sheree Renée Thomas, and turntablist, and author Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky, for a listening party and conversation exploring the conceptual and empirical borderlands of Afrocentric transhumanism and the voodoo/hoodoo continuum within "Great Black Music: Ancient to the Future" in a time dulled by the statistical hegemony of AI. Free with RSVP.
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Dave Burrell
October 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Brooklyn Public Library (Dweck Auditorium)
Pianist, composer, and improvisor Dave Burrell’s life’s work spans almost all facets of jazz and its history, from blues, ragtime, stride, and bebop to the “fire music” he helped sculpt in the 1960s. The richness of his sixty-year career—channeling the energy of the Civil Rights Movement through the landmark album Echo (1969), performing at Attica the year after its Prison Uprisings, seeking the influence of vodou ceremonies in Port-au-Prince, and on over one hundred recordings, including thirty under his own name—reflects his singular ability to connect voices and histories across musical genres and generations. For Burrell, tradition is a living, embodied dialogue between past and future, a study in dissolving musical binaries of “inside” and “out.” Free with RSVP.
