Brooklyn Jazz Underground
Brooklyn Jazz Underground is a musician cooperative founded in 2006 with an affiliated music label, which works in the New York borough of Brooklyn .
Following the example of the Chicago Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) and the Black Artists Group in St. Louis , a group of band leaders living in Brooklyn founded the Brooklyn Jazz Underground cooperative in the mid-2000s , initially to better promote their own music productions can. At the same time they curate festivals and concert series, operate an internet presence and the sister company BJU Records . The group's first public announcement came in 2006 when the Brooklyn Jazz Underground presented itself at the fourth annual festival at New York's Cornelia Street Cafe . Founding members are Anne Mette Iversen , Alexis Cuadrado, Sunny Jain, Dan Pratt and Alan Ferber ; added Rob Garcia , Adam Kolker and David Smith.
Releases on BJU Records
- Alexis Cuadrado: Noneto Iberico (2011) with Perico Sambeat , Loren Stillman , Dan Tepfer , Avishai Cohen , Alan Ferber , Mark Ferber , Brad Shepik
- Rob Garcia 4: The Drop and The Ocean (2011) with Dan Tepfer
- Anne Mette Iverson Quartet: Milo Songs (2011)