Soup & Sound

04/10/2025

04/01/2025

Continuum Culture & Arts’ Soup & Sound & Greenwich House Music School present BLACK COMPOSERS UPSOUTH, a mini festival featuring the music of Oliver Lake, Julius Hemphill, James “Jabbo” Ware.

April 15, 16 and 18 7:30pm
Greenwich House Music School NYC
$20/25.

Tickets and more info: www.soupandsound.org

Oliver Lake is a pioneering saxophonist, composer, painter, and poet with a career spanning over 50 years. A co-founder of the World Saxophone Quartet and a frequent collaborator with a diverse range of musical artists, Lake has continuously pushed artistic boundaries across multiple disciplines. He has been recognized with numerous honors, including the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Doris Duke Artist Award.

Julius Hemphill (1938–1995) was known for his work on alto, soprano, and tenor saxophones. Hemphill, who was a key figure in the New York City free jazz scene, was also a co-founder of the World Saxophone Quartet in 1976 and recorded over 20 albums as a leader.

James “Jabbo” Ware began his professional career as a saxophonist/ composer/ arranger in 1962 with the Black Artist Group of St. Louis (whose members also included Oliver Lake and Julius Hemphill). In 1973, he realized his dream of leading his own large ensemble when he formed The Me We & Them Orchestra, which he has continued to lead in addition to his countless collaborations with other musicians.

Soup & Sound
Greenwich House Music School
Oliver Lake

03/28/2025

BLACK COMPOSERS UPSOUTH

3 nights featuring the compositions of Julius Hemphill, Oliver Lake, and James Jabbo Ware played by a bunch of great musicians with ties to the composers.

Oliver Lake will be there on night 1 reading his poetry in between his songs played by Dance Clarinets, an amazing 12 bass clarinets + rhythm section jazz orchestra led by JD Parran who has a long relationship with all three going back to St. Louis).

The Hemphill Stringtet will make some history with the only NYC performance of music from their new album The Hemphill Stringtet Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill.

And Marty Ehrlich--another long-time Hemphill collaborator from St. Louis) has a great band playing his arrangement of Hemphill Blues & Ballads...Jonathan Finlayson, Jerome Harris, Pheeroan akLaff, and special guest Amina Claudine Myers

Soup & Sound is partnering with Greenwich House Music School on this. Much gratitude to the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs without whose support this wouldn't be possible.

03/26/2025

don't sleep on this

02/18/2025

We'll soon be announcing a bunch of Soup & Sounds running from March 15 into July.

01/22/2025

Join us for Soup & Sound this Saturday!

Jan 25, 8pm (doors open at 7:30)
ROBERT DICK (flutes)
STEPHAN HALUSKA (harp)

Flute and harp like you've never heard!

292 Lefferts Ave
Brooklyn NY

$20 suggested

listen to a piece from their Infrequent Seams recording, Crop Circles:
https://infrequentseams.bandcamp.com/album/crop-circles

Robert Dick has played at many Soup & Sounds. He is a "creative virtuoso in the tradition of Hendrix and Paganini," an improvisor, composer, author and teacher, inventor. He is known worldwide for redefining the flute, for creating revolutionary visions of its musical role to stand alongside the flute's established musics. Here he is joined by Cleveland harp explorer, Stephan Haluska. Viewing the harp as a frequently misunderstood and underrepresented instrument in contemporary music, Haluska often rejects conventional modes of playing in favor of finding new ways to expand his sound palette.

Continuum Culture & Arts
Andrew Drury
Robert Dick

01/21/2025

SOUP & SOUND
This Wednesday night in Brooklyn.

Join JD Parran and Andrew Drury for the last stop of the UnInaguration 2 mini tour.

Part riot, part manifestation, part protest, part prayer: two celebrated stalwarts of creative music share good musical medicine on the grim occasion of the 2025 presidential inauguration. Indeed this is an UNinauguration. J. D. Parran and Andrew Drury will play a wide range of instruments from around the world in addition to bass saxophone, alto clarinet, flutes, and drums. Parran led an unInauguration mini-tour with a quartet in 2017. For 2025 he joins forces with frequent collaborator Andrew Drury.

Soup & Sound
292 Lefferts Ave
Brooklyn
7pm (doors at 6:30)

$20 suggested (includes soup)

Andrew Drury
Soup & Sound

11/27/2024

SOUP & SOUND
This Sunday, December 1
Soup at 6:30, music at 7
292 Lefferts Ave
Brooklyn

$20 suggested donation

Live visual and music improvisation with the Erato Tzavara / Ayumi Ish*to / Daniel Carter / Stelios Mihas Group.

RATO TZAVARA is an Athens/London based video artist and independent researcher specializing in moving image techniques for live performance, video design and embodiment in relation to digital media. As a video artist interested in liveness, dramaturgy and the body, she works with the plasticity of the digital image in dialogue with the moving/acting body in physical space.

As a composer, AYUMMI ISH*TO has been leading her quintet since 2011 and performing her compositions. The band released two albums, “View From A Little Cave” in 2016 and “Midnite Cinema” in 2019.

DANIEL CARTER is an American free jazz musician who plays saxophone, trumpet, and flute. Carter has recorded and performed with many distinguished musicians, including William Parker, Federico Ughi, DJ Logic, The Negatones, Thurston Moore, Yo La Tengo, Soul-Junk, Anne Waldman, Cooper-Moore, Matthew Shipp and scientist/musician Matthew Putman among others. He is a member of the cooperative free jazz groups Test, Other Dimensions In Music, odon, Ghost Moth and Dissipated Face.

STELIOS MIHAS is a guitarist, composer, and producer based in New York City, originally from Athens, Greece. A multifaceted musician and producer best known for his versatile contributions to the music, Stelios has collaborated with a diverse array of artists and ensembles, showcasing his adaptability across genres and musical styles.

Continuum Culture & Arts
Andrew Drury

11/15/2024

We’ve been taking a break but Uninauguration 2–a duo of JD Parran (bass saxophone, alto clarinet, flute, soprano saxophone) and Andrew Drury (drum set, gongs, pots, mussel shells) is coming in January.

More details about our unInauguration 2 tour tba

09/19/2024

Starting a two week trip in which a pared down version of The Forest will perform in Flagstaff and Albuquerque. We’re presenting a work in progress, Coyote Makes a world, w guest collaborator čnaq’ymi, and Fara Tolno on djembe.

Super psyched for Native flutist Robert Mirabal and South African vocalist Melanie Scholtz join us in Albuquerque at Globalquerque, and Abby Fisher to join us in Glagstaff at the Interference Series.

09/10/2024

Sunday