Jazzy Sunday Situations..On Some Other Sh%t @ Prospect Pond

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Do you remember the days when you used to walk down the streets of NYC and fall into something. Chaka Khan rolling into The Groove and do a set, Dave Chapelle pops into Caroline's Comedy Club and does a random set with Paul Money, or you just happen to have the most amazing conversation with a random stranger while listening to the best undiscovered talent....Well those days are back happening right here in BK..Tonight we have a fabulous line up, DJ Serge Negri on the 1's and 2's, Mobius Collective and tonight, we will be screening feature length film:

@6pm
"Chameleon Street (1989)" staring, writer, director, and producer by Wendell B. Harris Jr.
Winner of the Sundance Film Festival (1990) and nominated by the Independent Spirit Awards (1992). Chameleon Street has developed an underground following. It tells the story of a social chameleon who impersonates reporters, doctors and lawyers in order to make money. The film is a satire based on the life of Detroit con artist and high school drop-out William Douglas Street Jr., who successfully impersonated professional reporters, lawyers, athletes, extortionists, and surgeons, going so far as to perform more than 36 successful hysterectomies. A Sundance Film Festival press release in 2008 described it as "one of the first films to examine how mellifluously race, class, and role-playing morph into the social fabric of America."

Here is just a clip of the insanity:
The Ugly Bar Scene


......Scroll down for more info on April's line up..

Happy Hour 5pm-8pm
2 for 1 $3 Draft Beer
2 for 1 $7 Draft Pitchers
2 for 1 Special "Lady" cocktails
$1 off all top shelf and well liquor
Special Discounts for all Teachers

Sunday
April 11, 2010

Mobius Collective @ 8pm & 10pm


Mobius Collective is a network of musicians/ producers that exist both in Puerto Rico & NYC. The link between the two is being continuously forged by Brooklyn based Saxophonist & director Troy Simms who frequently travels between both.

A Mobius Strip is a one sided one edged surface with no beginning or end. The name Mobius was adopted in 02’ as a spatial metaphore in which different musical genres are fused into a continuous narrative by means of improvisation within the rhythmic roots that bind them together.

PR Mobius Collective Puerto Rico found its origins back in 01' at Viejo San Juan's Enlaces Café. Initially starting as an interlacing of Latin Puerto Rican styles such as Bomba and Salsa with Afro-American genres such as Hip-Hop, Jazz , Funk & Break beats.

Early members included DJ Nature who brought his knowledge of turntablism and a unique approach to mixing such musical styles into a voice that resonated with today’s hybrid generation. Troy was also able to forge strong musical relationships with artist such as Pianist, Bayrex Jimenez & Drummer, Efrain Martinez who remain the core of Mobius PR as well as Bassist Ariel Robles. A full Mobius PR presentation consists of the core quartet ie; Alto Sax, Keyboards, Bass & Drums. In addition a D.J and two percussionist join the cipher. Finally a Bomba dancer and Mc’s bring a

Afro-Latin dialogue rooted in the tradition. NYC The New York collective has established themselves as independent artist playing with the likes of Lauren Hill & Lee Scratch Perry to name a few, as well as hosting a weekly residency in Williamsburg Brooklyn entitled “Brooklyn Freestyle Sessions” since April 07’. Troy Simms along with Keyboardist Borahm Lee & Trumpeter Omar Little form the core of the NYC cipher along with guitarist Dave Bailis. Having New York City as an incubation chamber in which to experiment and constantly showcase in front of an international audience has made the NYC collective one of the premier platforms for emerging as well as established talent. Exploring the “4 food groups” of Jazz, Afro-Beat, Hip-Hop & Dub, Mobius Collective NYC is continuously breaking sound barriers. On occasion The Collective joins both Puerto Rico & New York Crews to have a session of true inter-cultural exchange. Espacio Infinito, Infinite Space. It is our journey. It is questions and thresholds. A self-referencing, live sampling, search for the vanishing point within all of us. Mobius happens in transition. The space between one thought and the next where ideas are formless, gaining momentum through constant dialogue between each musician. Mobius is free space. THIS IS NOT A JAM SESSION. Mobius is a collective listening experience.


DJ Serge Negri of Bamboo Sounds @ 9pm


On Some Other Shit Series April 2010

12th
Opening: 9pm Jerome Jordan & Friends
11pm The Puppets (Micah)


18th Diallo House Trio

19th
Opening
9 pm Jennifer Johns

25th Mobius Collective

26th
Opening 9pm Valencia Robinson
11pm Audio Architects