SOUREN BARONIAN'S TAKSIM

Souren Baronian grew up in Spanish Harlem riding two powerful currents of his creativity: his ethnic Armenian heritage, and jazz. His own music is an authentic organic hybrid of those two idioms. The sound of his band is truly unique, applying a jazz vocabulary and the bebop sensibility of Charlie Parker and Lester Young to Middle Eastern rhythms on traditional instruments such as the oud, kaval, dubek, G-clarinet and dumbek. "Taksim" is a Middle Eastern term meaning improvisation, and inspired improvisation is the home territory of Souren Baronian and his band. The Band has toured all over the world and played many of the top venues including the Montreal Jazz Festival, The Blue Note and Cornelia Street Cafe.

Souren Baronian - G-clarinet, saxophone, kaval, duduk, riq; Adam Good - ud;  Lee Baronian - darbukkeh; Mal Stein - drums, percussion; Sprocket Royer - double bass

8pm
$20 Tickets