The Fat Cats Youth Orchestra Open Workshop and Rehearsals
2023-11-05 11:00 - 17:00 (America/Halifax) | ShapeShifter Lab, 837 Union Street, Ground Floor, Brooklyn, NY, 11215, United States
The Fat Cats Youth Orchestra Open Workshop and Rehearsals Weekly at ShapeShifter

Sparkling with the sound of young talent, The Fat Cats is a pre-professional youth orchestra. The group is composed of one big band and two small ensembles that perform Latin jazz and standard jazz pieces and showcase the finest young talent from across all NYC boroughs.
Founded in 2010 by Arturo O’Farril and managed by the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance, The Fat Cats is led by Zack O’Farrill with Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra members Jim Seeley, Berta Moreno, and Jasim Perales, as well as Arthur Alvarez and Adam Baksh-García.
Over the years, The Fat Cats have taken the stage at New York venues such as the Brooklyn Museum, New York Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, the Frick Collection, the Greene Space at WNYC, BRIC House, Birdland and Brooklyn’s Shapeshifter Lab who has welcomed the band for weekly rehearsals since their 2023-2024 season.

The Tristan Geary Trio
2024-02-25 19:00 - 20:00 | ShapeShifter Lab, 837 Union Street, Ground Floor, Brooklyn, NY, 11215, United States
Tristan Geary – piano
Mark Venuto – bass
Jonathan Collazo – drums
Straddling jazz and improvised music, the Tristan Geary Trio presents music in equal parts original pieces, raucous and restrained, and improvised eclecticism, joyous and spontaneous. Featuring stellar Hudson Valley musicians Mark Venuto (bass) and Jonathan Collazo (drums) the core trio is led by Tristan Geary (piano), whose music, well rooted in the jazz tradition, is as experimental as it is swinging. Informed by both their study of jazz and orchestral and ensemble composition, the trio’s capacity for genre-bending creations and collaboration continue to light a fire underneath it, pursuing a meandering, storytelling sound, while never sacrificing on groove, blues, and interplay.
The trio has performed extensively in the Hudson Valley region and in New York City. Geary. Born in London, UK, Geary is based in both the U.S. and Europe, and graduated from Bard College in 2020 with a degree in jazz performance and composition.

Winter Mondays Baby Class with Debbie Brukman 10:30am
2024-02-05 10:30 - 11:30 | ShapeShifter Lab, 837 Union Street, Ground Floor, Brooklyn, NY, 11215, United States
Join Debbie in the beautiful ShapeShifter Lab on Union Street with her happy music for grooving with her guitar, scarves, parachute, and drums! Babies will discover, groove, and make some friends while adults can feel community while engaging with your child. Debbie is a local mom with two decades of singing for our neighborhood kids.

Winter Mondays Baby Class with Debbie Brukman 12pm
2024-02-05 12:00 - 12:50 | ShapeShifter Lab, 837 Union Street, Ground Floor, Brooklyn, NY, 11215, United States

Soundbox
2024-02-01 12:30 - 13:15 | ShapeShifter Lab, 837 Union Street, Ground Floor, Brooklyn, NY, 11215, United States
At Soundbox, we play to read!
Soundbox is a pre-literacy playgroup focused on phonemes, the individual parts of spoken words. For example, the word “cat” can be separated into 3 phonemes.
A step up in learning to read is learning to listen.
In each play session, friends open a Soundbox and explore the “minis” inside to discover a sound pattern! A miniature apple, a tiny alligator, a very small astronaut, an itty bitty axe, and mini alpaca all begin with the same sound!
We play with our minis and learn more about our new sound through activities and games that are both super fun and researched based. We learn how to break words into sound parts, practice sound order, discover sound patterns, and map sounds to letters. These skills are foundational for emerging readers. With each Soundbox they open, our friends take one more step on their journey towards reading!
Come play with us!
** Currently this is NOT a drop-off play group. Adults stay to play. There is no charge for this 4-round session. This session is designed for children who are 4 to 5 years old. There are LOTS of small parts. Not suitable for kids under 4. Adult supervision required at all times.
Dates
Tuesday. February 6
Tuesday, February 13
*Thursday, February 22
Tuesday, February 27
Tuesday, March 5
Times
12:00pm – 1:15pm
Location
ShapeShifter Lab
837 Union Street
Ground Floor, Open Cafe

Workshops & Jam Sessions Hosted by Matt Garrison
2024-02-07 12:00 - 15:00 | ShapeShifter Lab, 837 Union Street, Ground Floor, Brooklyn, NY, 11215, United States
Wednesdays. 12-12:45pm
Workshop, 1-3pm

Workshops & Jam Sessions Hosted by Matt Garrison @ShapeShifterLab
Every Wednesday in February, 2023

12-12:45 pm Workshop: Jam Session Ideas/Approaches

Matt will discuss how the Jam Sessions he hosts can and will be approached.
He will discuss: Songs, Forms, Improvisation, Dynamics, Tempos, Feel, Genres, Technique, Emotional State and other important topics that will set the stage for the actual ShapeShifter Lab Jam Session.
He feels that doing so will give a strong basis for all jammers to get a sense of what’s possible.
The further idea of the workshop is to trigger a conversation, spark ideas and open the floor for clear dialogue about a possible set of Jam Session frameworks.
All Experience levels welcome! FREE!

1-3pm Jam Session

Haeun Joo Trio
2024-02-28 19:00 - 20:00 | ShapeShifter Lab, 837 Union Street, Ground Floor, Brooklyn, NY, 11215, United States
Haeun Joo on Piano/Voice,
Chris Tordini on Bass,
Vinnie Sperrazza on drums
Ticket Cover Charge : $20
Door @6:30 pm
Show @7:00 pm

About:
Born in Busan, South Korea, award-winning pianist, composer and songwriter HaeunJoo is making a name for herself as a highly original composer and a thoughtful performer. Having grown up around the jazz, funk and pop of the Seoul scene, she eventually decided to search for the source of the jazz sound she loved so much, moving to the United States in 2011 to study at Berklee School of Music. She moved to New York to study at SUNY Purchase where she got her master’s degree and where she has been actively playing since.
In 2021 Haeun Joo released her debut album, “We Will Find”. An introspective exploration of deep thoughts realized in a hopeful idiom with dashes of melancholia, We Will Find is contemplative jazz with a modern sensibility which features Matt Holman doubling trumpet, Doug Weiss on bass and Ronen Itzik on drums.
She will be performing her new compositions soon to be recorded with her trio.

Camille Harris and Georgia Weber
2024-02-29 19:00 - 20:00 | ShapeShifter Lab, 837 Union Street, Ground Floor, Brooklyn, NY, 11215, United States
Camille Harris – voice and electronics
Georgia Weber – voice and double bass
Nathan Ellman Bell – Drums
Martha Kato – Piano
Eden Bareket – Saxophone

After realizing they were among each other’s biggest fans, long term collaborators Camille Harris and Georgia Weber are bringing their bands together!
Both based in Brooklyn, Camille Harris is a composer, performer and playwright.
Her compositions have been featured on projects and commercials for clients such as Nickelodeon, Adobe, Merrill Lynch, and more. She has mixed and mastered multiple singles for clients around the country.
Camille has released five albums. Her cover of the Standard “The Nearness of You,” recorded with pianist David Linard is featured on multiple Spotify editorial playlists and her recent single “My Love Belongs With You” is featured on the Spotify editorial playlist “Vocal Jazz.”

Georgia Weber describes herself as “married to her bass”. Her affinity to her instrument, style and genre has been inspired by jazz luminaries Scott LaFaro and Charlie Haden. A musical open-mindedness allowed Weber to develop a unique sound, which has painted the lower register for some of the world’s most renowned jazz artists.
Weber performs and records with artists such as Post Modern Jukebox’s Robyn Adele Anderson, The Morning Sea and is the composer, bassist and vocalist in her own trio, Georgia Weber and The Sleeved Hearts. Weber was a finalist in the 2015 Australian National Jazz Awards. She has released two albums with The Sleeved Hearts and has another release on the horizon in 2024.

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MILꓘ BAND
2024-02-29 20:30 - 21:30 | ShapeShifter Lab, 837 Union Street, Ground Floor, Brooklyn, NY, 11215, United States
Fred Cash – bass
Bruce Flowers – keys
Adrian Harpham – drums
Marvin Sewell – guitar

MILK is comprised of four world-class, journeyman musicians; a burgeoning alliance of New York’s heaviest.
About:
FRED CASH is a musician from Chicago, Illinois who happens to play bass. Coming from a musical family, he’s played music most of his life. After finishing a couple of semesters at the American Conservatory of Music he moved to New York where he’s played with such artists as Alicia Keys, Indie Arie, Henry Butler, Luther Vandross, Elvis Costello, George Clinton, Curtis Mayfield, and The Impressions, Adam Holzman, Jean-Paul Bourelly, Toshi Reagon, Jerry Butler, and many others.
BRUCE FLOWERS is a pianist/keyboardist/composer from Baltimore, MD. He played in go-go bands and jazz groups in the DC area before attending New England Conservatory and Berklee College of Music in Boston. Following Berklee, he moved to NYC and began a top-flight/fruitful career playing with Betty Carter, Bobby Watson, Marcus Miller, Ruben Wilson, Brian Mcknight, Queen Latifah, David Sanborn, and Patti Austin. He is currently composing music, doing session work, and developing his own projects.

ADRIAN HARPHAM is a Drummer/record producer/composer from Philadelphia. Originally mentored by various Philly drummers, he later studied with Alan Dawson, Russell Leach and Ed Uribe before attending Berklee College of Music. After Berklee, he moved to NYC and has since worked with: Dr. John, Henry Butler, Raphael Saadiq, Leo Nocentelli (the Meters), Fred Wesley, Bernie Worrell, Chromeo, Amel Larrieux/Groove Theory, Donald Harrison, Pee Wee Ellis, Oz Noy, Charlie Hunter, Brazilian Girls, Coolio, Tom Scott, the Pharcyde, DJ Logic, Screaming Headless Torsos. Adrian is an active record producer with his production company Big Pulse Productions and his label imprint Modern Icon Recordings (distributed by Ropeadope Records).

MARVIN J. SEWELL guitarist and composer, hails from Chicago. He began his career playing with local greats like Von Freeman and Ramsey Lewis. After studying composition at Roosevelt University, he went on to collaborate with notable artists including Jack DeJohnette, David Sanborn, Marcus Miller, Jorge Sylvester, Gary Thomas, Greg Osby, Joe Lovano, George Benson, Sekou Sundiata, and Peter Herborn. He leads The Marvin Sewell Group today and is gearing up for a solo record release.

Master Class, Performance, Jam Session of the Fat Cats, students from Interlochen, and various and sundry other students
2024-03-01 17:30 - 22:00 | ShapeShifter Lab, 837 Union Street, Ground Floor, Brooklyn, NY, 11215, United States
5:30pm: Master class by Chris Glassman of Interlochen’s jazz department
7:00pm: Fat Cats performance w/ Interlochen guests
8:00pm: jam session for Fat Cats, Interlochen, Harlem School of the Arts, etc. students (ICE, Brooklyn Conservatory, LaGuardia)

Wake Up & Dance with Suzi Shelton
2024-03-02 10:15 - 11:30 | ShapeShifter Lab, 837 Union Street, Ground Floor, Brooklyn, NY, 11215, United States
Free for Children below 2 years of age (Please RSVP below)
Wake Up and Dance is a joyful winter concert series for the littlest dancers and their grown-ups by award-winning children’s musician Suzi Shelton in partnership with Book Nook. Geared for families with children ages 0-8 years old, this early morning concert series features story time, music and dancing that is sure to engage, inspire and uplift! Come in from the cold, warm up with some hot drinks from the café, and get ready to kick off your weekend with musical fun by Suzi Shelton and Friends!
09:30 am – Doors
10:15 am – Story Time with Book Nook
10:30-11:30am – Concert
Geared for ages 0-8 years
Suzi Shelton
For more than a decade, Suzi Shelton has been recognized as a voice in independent family music, and a leading figure in the NYC children’s music scene. She has four solo albums under her belt along with multiple hit singles frequently played on the radio (and everywhere you listen to your music), and a popular livestream show called Sing with Suzi featuring special guests from around the globe that is watched in over 70 countries! Suzi is a staple in Park Slope with her regular playground-packed performances at Old Stone House of Brooklyn, Brooklyn Public Library, and Jalopy Theatre.
As Brooklyn Spectator noted, “When Suzi Shelton takes the stage with her guitar and her band, you know that something special is about to happen.”
www.suzishelton.com

Book Nook

https://booknooknyc.com/

Park Slope Parents
https://www.parkslopeparents.com/

This concert series is bought to you by

Family Jam with Debbie and Adam
2024-03-03 10:15 - 11:15 | ShapeShifter Lab, 837 Union Street, Ground Floor, Brooklyn, NY, 11215, United States
Family Jam with Debbie Brukman and Adam Strum.

Debbie Brukman and Adam Strum are so happy to unite for a super fun morning Family Jam Concert. Great for young kids and those who love them with musical stories and tunes for everyone! This is a weekend morning event not to be missed as you come out from the cold and join together in community and song, and dance. (And perhaps a drink from the cafe/bar)

Debbie Brukman is a neighborhood musician and mom who has been playing her guitar and creating joy for two decades. Called a “neighborhood gem” she believes in the power of music. Her motto is “We Need To Sing. All of us.”

Adam Strum is a Brooklyn professional musician, producer, and music educator. He has been teaching and performing for 25 years!

www.debbiebrukman.com

Kids under 1 year FREE!

20’s ft. the Joseph Herbst Big Band
2024-03-03 19:00 - 20:00 | ShapeShifter Lab, 837 Union Street, Ground Floor, Brooklyn, NY, 11215, United States
Saxophones – Markus Howell, Zoe Obadia, Jasper Dutz, John Lowery, Skyler Hagner
Trumpets – Michael Dudley, Brandon Choi, Joey Lamb, Dave Adewumi
Trombones – Altin Sencalar, Norah DeChant, Sam Blakeslee, Gina Benalcazar
Guitar – Connor Evans
Piano – Dabin Ryu
Bass – Adam Olszewski
Drums – Jake Richter
Compositions, Arrangements, Alto Clarinet – Joseph Herbst
Originally written to be premiered in Asheville, NC, in March 2020, “20s” celebrates the 20s, ALL the 20s, with music ranging from the 1120s to the 24th century to today, while celebrating historical figures throughout the 20s such as Enheduanna, the 23rd Century BC High Priestess who was the first named author and poet in history, Mary Anning, who discovered the first complete Plesiosaurus fossil in 1823 and is known as “the greatest fossilist the world never new,” and more. Originally planned for March – Women’s History Month – and yet again planned for March, the music has a focus on women composers and figures through history, as Joseph’s arrangements and compositions bring the music and history to life in the light of the 2020’s.
Composer and woodwind player Joseph Herbst uses music as a medium for storytelling, often as part of collaborative projects, in order to push ourselves to see the world in different ways while strengthening our sense of community. Based in NYC, Joseph leads his own septet, 13-piece chamber ensemble, and big band, while actively working as a copyist to aid fellow composers in bringing their music to life. Joseph is the recipient of the 2023 ASCAP Johnny Mandel Prize, the 2023 24th Charlie Parker Jazz Composition Prize and Manny Album Commission, the ASCAP Young Jazz Composers Awards in 2021 and 2023, and the ISJAC Sonic Awards Recipient for Arrangement 2021.

Lily White Quintet—Daughter of Fortune
2024-03-07 21:00 - 22:00 | ShapeShifter Lab, 837 Union Street, Ground Floor, Brooklyn, NY, 11215, United States
Lily White –Saxophone
Rob Garcia-Drums
Bennett Paster—Piano
David Smith-Trumpet
Jim Whitney—bass
This is the album release celebration of “Daughter of Fortune,” by Lily White. Original compositions by Lily White (one by Jim Whitney).

Mercer Patterson Quintet: Lost Eyes
2024-03-08 19:00 - 20:00 | ShapeShifter Lab, 837 Union Street, Ground Floor, Brooklyn, NY, 11215, United States
Mercer Patterson, Piano/Keyboard
Gavin Grey, Bass
Matthias Meyer, Drums
Eli Heinen, Trombone
Connor Hoyt, Saxophone
Mercer Patterson is a composer/pianist based in NYC. Performing in a number of different styles, Mercer has had the opportunity to play at numerous venues in both NYC and Michigan, including the Detroit Jazz Festival, the Jazz Gallery, National Sawdust, the Blue Llama Jazz Club, and more. He leads several of his own projects, including the Mercer Patterson Quintet. His newest single “Cloak and Dagger” is now available on all major streaming platforms.

One Hour Raga with Sitar and Tabla
2024-03-08 21:00 - 22:00 | ShapeShifter Lab, 837 Union Street, Ground Floor, Brooklyn, NY, 11215, United States
“How does the raga behave? We don’t treat it as a fixed structure of notes. It has a soul. It comes to power, you watch it flourish. So then, we start developing. There’s a rhythmic section, but still with no percussion. We develop it, and then play with the tabla a cycle of maybe sixteen beats, ten beats, seven beats, it depends. Like jazz, there are so many rhythmic cycles.” – Abhik Mukherjee
Abhik Mukherjee is a Kolkata-born sitar player of the Etawah-Imdadkhani gharana. He was initiated to sitar at the age of six by his father, Sri Tarit Mukherjee, and Sri Bimal Chatterjee, while simultaneously receiving vocal instruction from Sri Kaylan Bose. He has since taken talim from Pandit Arvind Parikh and Pandit Kashinath Mukherjee, themselves disciples of the legendary Ustad Vilayat Khan. He is a gold medalist in musicology from Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, and has also received a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture, India.
Sameer Gupta in American jazz and Indian classical tabla player and has created a unique musical sound by combining traditional and modern improvisational styles drawing from his dual Indian and American heritage. Gupta did not begin mastering the tabla until well into his jazz career in the early ‘00s, and now from bebop to avant-garde jazz, and European classical percussion to North Indian classical tabla, he continues to compose and perform music from a true multi-cultural perspective that bridges several continents.

Bowery Jazz Messengers Open Rehearsal
2024-03-09 12:00 - 15:00 | ShapeShifter Lab, 837 Union Street, Ground Floor, Brooklyn, NY, 11215, United States
The Bowery Jazz Messengers is a NYC band and charity that plays at The Bowery Mission in New York City, and other venues in the Greater New York area, where its music helps inspire anyone experiencing homelessness or poverty. The Bowery Jazz Messengers received 501C3 status in NYS in July of 2020 and also provides a positive environment for young jazz musicians to develop their craft while performing service to their community.

ShapeShifter Plus provides the space and equipment for The Bowery Jazz Messengers for their monthly rehearsals allowing the public to sit in during the café open hours.
Come join!
Free

Why Can’t I Be Beautiful Like You
2024-03-10 19:00 - 20:30 | ShapeShifter Lab, 837 Union Street, Ground Floor, Brooklyn, NY, 11215, United States
J. A. Granelli – Solo electric bass, Compositions, effects.
Colin Mackenzie – Video images and projections
Why Can’t I Be Beautiful Like You is an hour long multimedia piece built around the music of J .A. Granelli and the video projections of Colin MacKEnzie.
What began as an online collaboration is now a live experience that marries memory, loss, joy and resilience. Both video and audio incorporate pre-recorded material, found footage and improvisation that draws one into a world of beauty that exists around us every day but often goes unnoticed.
Written around the death of J.’s father and Colin’s longtime collaborator; the drummer and master improviser Jerry Granelli, “Why Can’t I Be Beautiful Like You” looks at the passing of time and a hope for the future. The video images and music create their own dialogue, organically informing one another and teasing out previously unseen meanings. The audience joins the artists as both take a surprising and fulfilling journey together.

Bios:
J. Anthony Granelli is a native of northern California. He began to study bass at age eight with bassist and musical instrument pioneer Fred Marshall. In his teens Granelli moved to Seattle Washington where he performed with Jay Clayton, Julian Priester and Jerry Granelli while studying at Cornish College of the Arts.
Granelli received a BFA from California Institute of the Arts in 1991. At Cal Arts he explored creating a personal vocabulary of improvisation while studying with Charlie Haden and performing with John Bergamo and Miroslav Tadic. In 2006 Granelli earned a Masters Degree in Jazz Composition from New York University.
After moving to Brooklyn New York in 1992 Granelli was very active in the scene that flourished around the Knitting Factory. While in New York he was a founder/ assistant director with Ralph Alessi of the School for Improvised Music an internationally attended program that runs during the summer. Granelli also helped to found and is now artistic director of Jerry Granelli’s Creative Music Workshop in Halifax Nova Scotia, which just celebrated it’s 25th anniversary in 2023.
In 2000 Granelli started Love Slave Records which released nine critically acclaimed records by his own bands as well as other “downtown” musical luminaries. J. Anthony has been covered in all major Jazz publications as well as various local media outlets.
J Anthony continues to compose and play in New York City and internationally. He currently leads his own Mr. Lucky Trio as well as Jazz/Reggae band the Gowanus Reggae and Ska Society and plays with numerous local projects. Granelli was the musical director and arranger for the “Love Love” project with Julian Priester, Jerry Granelli’s “Sand Hills Reunion with Rinde Eckert and the “Dance Hall Project” featuring Bill Frisell and Robben Ford.
In 2019 and 2020 Granelli released “My Pretty Demon” and “End To Begin” with his trio Mr. Lucky. A solo bass album entitled “Why Can’t I Be Beautiful Like You” was released in 2023 with featured accompanying videos by Canadian filmmaker Colin MacKenzie.
Granelli has performed with: David Tronzo, Julian Priester, Jay Clayton, Jane Ira Bloom, Mose Allison, Brad Shepik, Francoise Houle, Jerry Granelli, Briggan Krauss, Bill Frisell, Robben Ford, John Abercrombie, Anthony Cox, Ralph Alessi, Rinde Eckert, Jamie Saft, Buck 65, Miroslav Tadic, Peter Epstein, John Bergamo, Alicia Svigles, Jamie Haddad, Mike Dillon, Cedric “Im” Brooks, Ohad Talmor, Michael Blake, Dave Douglas, Smokey Hormel, Ben Goldberg, Ned Rothenberg, John Schott, Anthony Coleman.

Colin MacKenzie is an award-winning filmmaker, generally focusing his cinematic energies on documentary work. His most recent collaboration: Why Can’t I Be Beautiful Like You: Live, sees him creating ambient documentary work projected live during the live performance by composer/bassist J Anthony Granelli. Colin has been consistently telling stories for over three decades. Before and during COVID, he worked on and completed the poetry infused documentary “The Lobster Whisperer”, examining the life choices of a lobster fisherman. In 2019, along with animator Aparna Kapur, he co-directed the NFB produced “Balakrishna” (2019). This short film mixes animation and archival footage to tell the true story about an elephant and a boy in Nova Scotia. In 2017, he directed “FANNIE in Montreal” (filmed entirely on iPhone): in 1955 a young woman from Cape Breton moved to Montreal and never forgot. With “Decoding the Undertow” (2007), he explores the creative process of three dancers and three skateboarders in a piece by choreographer and co-director Sally Morgan. In 2006, he directed “COGSWELL”, based on a play by writer and broadcaster Stephanie Domet. “Jerry Granelli – In the Moment” (2001) explores the life of a master of improvisation, drummer/teacher Jerry Granelli. This followed a short experimental documentary, “A Granellian Encounter” (1998), winning the Best Canadian Short Film Award at the Atlantic Film Festival. Colin also produced and directed several music videos for artists such as Sloan, Jill Barber and Julie Doiron. An enduring passion for radio also led to his producing radio documentaries for the CBC.

Michele Romeo Quartet
2024-03-12 19:00 - 20:00 | ShapeShifter Lab, 837 Union Street, Ground Floor, Brooklyn, NY, 11215, United States
Piero Alessi – Drums
Carlo De Biaggio – Electric Bass
Justin Salisbury – Keys
Michele Romeo – Electric Guitar
Italy born-and-raised and NYC-based guitar player, producer and composer Michele Romeo has always had a fine hear for music since an early age. When he was only 4 years old, his parents gifted him a present that would be a lifechanging milestone: his very first guitar. He formally started to study guitar at the age of 10 and, shortly after, he began attending the Centro Formazione Musicale in Palermo to enrich his knowledge and to start mastering the instrument professionally.
At 13 years old he started dealing with a particular eye condition which led him to lose his sight at the age of 18. Nonetheless, this did not scratch his will to pursue his main goals in life. In 2012 Michele started to work to his very first album, Leaves, which was released on December 2014 and presented at the renowned Feltrinelli Music Stores in Palermo right upon its release.
The life experience in Milan was an essential turning point for his career: in fact, at the end of his successful university path, he decided to dedicate his life to music and never look back again. This is when he began to focus on fulfilling one of his lifelong goals: moving to the United States and work as a professional musician. In 2016, Michele gained a scholarship to attend the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston. The Boston experience was a great opportunity for him to meet and play with many talented musicians and masters from the most different backgrounds. This eventually led him to grow a lot as a musician and to find new pathways in his approach to the instrument. Berklee was also a great gateway for Michele to access the world of music production, allowing him to add the skills of a mixing engineer on top of the musician ones. From 2022 Michele settled down in New York City and he started composing and producing his own projects and tracks, among which Brookline, Herbert Street, Space Fantasy and I Do Like You But.

Wednesday Workshop + Jam Sessions Hosted by Andrew Cheng
2024-03-13 00:00 | NY
Andrew Cheng (guitar) will be hosting this week’s Jam Session.
Come join!
Andrew Cheng is a versatile guitarist and composer, hailing from the island of Borneo in Malaysia. A graduate of Berklee College of Music, where he studied with great educators such as Mick Goodrick, he moved shortly to New York City and has since toured with several diverse projects. These include Rini, a Carnatic Electronica violinist with whom he has toured India, and Julian Moreen, a songwriter with whom he has toured Asia and Europe.

Workshop & Jam Sessions Hosted by Andrew Cheng
2024-03-13 12:00 - 15:00 | ShapeShifter Lab, 837 Union Street, Ground Floor, Brooklyn, NY, 11215, United States
Wednesday. 12-12:45pm
Workshop, 1-3pm

Workshop & Jam Session Hosted by Andrew Cheng @ShapeShifterLab
Wednesday, March 13, 2024

12-12:45 pm Workshop: Jam Session Ideas/Approaches

All Experience levels welcome! FREE!

1-3pm Jam Session

bio:
Andrew Cheng is a versatile guitarist and composer, hailing from the island of Borneo in Malaysia. A graduate of Berklee College of Music, where he studied with great educators such as Mick Goodrick, he moved shortly to New York City and has since toured with several diverse projects. These include Rini, a Carnatic Electronica violinist with whom he has toured India, and Julian Moreen, a songwriter with whom he has toured Asia and Europe.

Eden Har-Gil Quartet - Single Release Show
2024-03-15 19:00 - 20:00 | ShapeShifter Lab, 837 Union Street, Ground Floor, Brooklyn, NY, 11215, United States
Eden Har-Gil – Drums
Teresa Sanchez – Upright Bass
Itay Goldberg – Alto Saxophone
Noam Shapira – Tenor Saxophone

In the heart of Brooklyn’s vibrant music scene, ShapeShifter Lab prepares to host the much-anticipated debut performance of the Eden Har-Gil Quartet. Comprising Eden Har-Gil on drums, Teresa Sanchez on upright bass, Itay Goldberg on Alto Saxophone, and Noam Shapira on tenor saxophone, the quartet promises an evening of musical transcendence.

Highlighting the occasion is the release of their inaugural single, “Nethermead,” a first glimpse into Har-Gil’s forthcoming debut album, “Hearts of Palm” to be released at the end of the month.
Har-Gil’s immersion in the city’s dynamic jazz scene has fostered collaborations with an array of international talents, enriching his sonic palette and imbuing his compositions with depth and diversity.

Originally from Kibbutz Yakum, Israel, Eden Har‑Gil is a New York-based drummer and composer.
He has been honing his skills under the tutelage of many jazz legends, such as Lenny White, Billy Drummond, Bill Charlap, Horacee Arnold and Anat Fort.
Since his move to New York City in 2018, Eden has played and collaborated with international musicians like:
Dave Pietro, Martin Wind, Steve LaSpina, Dezron Douglas, Caroline Davis, Lo Wood, Martin Nevin, and others.
Creating different projects and bands in the last couple of years (among those were the exploration of the music of Thelonious Monk, Andrew Hill),
Eden is now finishing his debut album “Hearts of Palm” which will be released in 2024.
The album features original compositions that present Eden’s unique sound and his world-class partners.

Anthony Muthurajah Quartet
2024-03-15 21:00 - 22:00 | ShapeShifter Lab, 837 Union Street, Ground Floor, Brooklyn, NY, 11215, United States
Rez Abbasi – Guitar
Chris Carroll – Drums
Rahul Carlberg – Piano/Keyboards
Making his debut as a band leader in NYC, Anthony Muthurajah is no stranger to bass players from all over the world. Having recently moved to the United States from Dubai, U.A.E, he is currently in the works of doing his 3rd record, which will feature some of NYC’s finest musicians. The project is a sonically driven experience of Anthony’s background, ranging from Gospel, RnB all the way to Rock, Fusion and Jazz. The compositions and arrangements really highlight the Middle Eastern and South Asian influence of Anthony’s childhood, with a strong contemporary harmonic and melodic direction. The group will also be performing compositions from Anthonys previous two releases.
