Barbès (Brooklyn)
Barbès is a venue for jazz and world music as well as a music label in New York district of Brooklyn .
The Barbès is located in the south of the Brooklyn neighborhood Park Slope (376 9th Street / corner of 6th Avenue) and was founded in 2002 by two Frenchmen, Vincent Douglas and Olivier Conan, in a former laundry. It consists of a bar in the front and a hall in the back. After the eponymous multi-cultural Parisian Barbès district in the 18th arrondissement , the club also performed experimental and jazz musicians such as John Tchicai , Tomas Fujiwara , Chris Speed , Leni Stern and Ben Monder, as well as Lebanese, Mexican, Venezuelan, African and Romanian bands. The Slavic Soul Party takes place every week and five albums have already been released. In addition, the jazz musician Oscar Noriega has been in charge of an artistic and organizational series of events called Oscar Noriega's Palimpsestic Series since 2012 .
The label Barbès Records , on the Musik u. a. by Sanda Weigl ("Gypsy in a Tree" 2011), Pierre De Gaillande, One Ring Zero and the Latin bands Nation Beat and Las Rubias Del Norte . The Barbès also made concert recording albums by musicians such as Frode Gjerstad , Mark Helias and Tony Malaby .
Discographic notes
- Tony Malaby / Angelica Sanchez / Tom Rainey : Alive in Brooklyn (Sarama Records, 2003)
- Instinctual Eye: Born in Brooklyn (Barking Hoop Recordings, 2005), with Frode Gjerstad, Nick Stephens , Kevin Norton
- Mark Helias' Open Loose: Atomic Clock (Radio Legs Music, 2006), with Tom Rainey, Tony Malaby
- The Four Bags : Live at Barbès (2006)
- Stéphane Wrembel : Barbes-Brooklyn (2006)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Portrait of Olivier Conan on National Public Radio
- ↑ James Nichols: The Mad Jazz Hatters at Barbes in Brooklyn (2008) in All About Jazz
- ↑ Note at Free music archive
- ↑ All That Brooklyn Jazz The borough is where it's at , Village Voice, January 23, 2013, accessed December 6, 2013
Coordinates: 40 ° 40 ′ 4.2 ″ N , 73 ° 59 ′ 1.9 ″ W.