Thomas Morgan & Emi Makabe DUO
Sep
6
8:00 PM20:00

Thomas Morgan & Emi Makabe DUO

Emi Makabe - Voice/Shamisen
Thomas Morgan - Double bass

$20

Based in New York, Thomas Morgan and Emi Makabe perform original compositions, jazz standards, and Japanese folk music.

Thomas Morgan is a New York-based jazz double bassist from the San Francisco Bay Area. Known for his telepathic synchronicity, melodic and expressive phrasing, precise touch, and amber sound, he has performed alongside a number of the most trendsetting artists in jazz, including Bill Frisell, Jakob Bro, Craig Taborn, Masabumi Kikuchi, Paul Motian, Dan Weiss, Jim Black, John Abercrombie, Dave Binney, Steve Coleman, Ethan Iverson, Aaron Parks, Fred Hersch, Charles Lloyd, Henry Threadgill, Joe Lovano, and Tomasz Stanko, among many others. He has released two duo albums with Bill Frisell—Small Town and Epistrophy—on ECM Records.

Emi Makabe is a composer, vocalist, and shamisen player. Originally from Japan, she has been based in New York since 2008. After graduating from the City University of New York, she began performing across New York, Europe, and Japan. Her quartet—featuring Vitor Gonçalves (piano), Thomas Morgan (bass), and Kenny Wollesen (drums)—has released two albums. Her second album, Echo (2025), released on Sunnyside Records, features guest appearances by Bill Frisell, Jason Moran, and Meshell Ndegeocello. Her debut album, Anniversary (2020), was released on Dave Douglas’s Greenleaf Music label.

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STANDARD DECONSTRUCTIONS: Two Sets of Reimagined Jazz
Sep
11
8:00 PM20:00

STANDARD DECONSTRUCTIONS: Two Sets of Reimagined Jazz

Adam Lane Electric Band - 8 pm

Nick Lyons, alto sax;
Adam Caine, electric guitar
Adam Lane, electric bass
Vijay Anderson, drums

THIS WAY OUT - 9:00 pm

Virg Dzurinko, piano
Adam Lane, acoustic bass
Vijay Anderson, drums

Electric jazz that draws equal influence of Bootsy Collins, Charlie Parker, and Cecil Taylor for the first set of the night! Second set looks at jazz standards from the perspective of one who has been asked to leave and not return to conservatory music school.

$20

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Intertwined
Oct
14
8:00 PM20:00

Intertwined

Sujae Jung - Piano and Synthesizer
Wolf Robert Stratmann - Double bass
Ned Rothenberg - Alto saxophone
Satoshi Takeishi - Drums

$20

Intertwined is a quartet led by pianist and composer Sujae Jung, combining contemporary jazz with elements of Korean traditional music. The group features Satoshi Takeishi on drums, Ned Rothenberg on alto saxophone, Wolf Robert Stratmann on double bass, and Sujae Jung on piano and synthesizer.

The music is based on two important elements of Korean traditional music, called Gug-ak: Jangdan (rhythmic patterns) and Sigimsae (musical ornamentation). These traditional elements are blended with contemporary jazz to create original compositions that reflect Sujae’s personal background and musical voice.

Inspired by the beauty of Korean nature, Intertwined creates a sound that feels honest, spacious, and connected. The band’s name reflects its spirit: different traditions, emotions, and people coming together through music.

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Ben Garnett Trio feat. Ben Plotnick & Nate Sabat with guests Adam Levy / Grant Gordy / Joel Harrison / Matt Glassmeyer
Oct
16
7:30 PM19:30

Ben Garnett Trio feat. Ben Plotnick & Nate Sabat with guests Adam Levy / Grant Gordy / Joel Harrison / Matt Glassmeyer

Ben Garnett Trio (feat. Ben Plotnick & Nate Sabat) - 7:30 pm
Ben Garnett - Guitar
Ben Plotnick - Fiddle
Nate Sabat - Bass

Adam Levy / Grant Gordy / Joel Harrison / Matt Glassmeyer - 8:30 pm
Adam Levy - Guitar
Grant Gordy - Guitar
Joel Harrison - Guitar
Matt Glassmeyer - multiple instruments

$20

Guitarist/composer Ben Garnett’s sophomore studio album, Kite’s Keep (2025), reimagines the acoustic guitar not as a lead voice, but as a cinematic landscape—an evocative space where fiddle, bass, and ensemble interplay bring guitar-born ideas to new life. With a dream team of acoustic virtuosos and a composer’s eye for drama and narrative, Garnett crafts songs that feel like short films—shifting fluidly from folk to bluegrass, pop to jazz, classical to avant-garde. For listeners ready to explore the guitar’s untapped world-building power, Kite’s Keep is an invitation to lean in and look again.

Adam Levy, Grant Gordy, and Joel Harrison will bring to the evening the variety of rich guitar sounds for which they are known. Matt Glassmeyer, who played piano on the album, will present something from his wide palette of sounds.

“You think you’ve heard it all until a Ben Garnett comes along to show us how much more there might be.”
— PREMIER GUITAR

“Garnett has a beautiful, curious, deep mind.”
— CHRIS ELDRIDGE (PUNCH BROTHERS)

https://www.instagram.com/kidgarnett/ https://www.instagram.com/adamlevyguitar/ https://www.instagram.com/grantgordy/ https://www.instagram.com/alternativeguitar/ https://www.instagram.com/meadownoise/

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Poetic Voice in Jazz - album release concert, Lena Bloch Quintet
Nov
15
8:00 PM20:00

Poetic Voice in Jazz - album release concert, Lena Bloch Quintet

Kyoko Kitamura - voice
Lena Bloch - saxophone
Jacob Sacks - piano
Ken Filiano - bass
Michael Sarin - drums

"Acclaimed Russian-born saxophonist and composer Lena Bloch’s new album Marina, showcasing a commissioned jazz suite for ensemble and voice and out November 14, 2025 via Fresh Sound Records, could not be more timely. “Throughout my life, Tsvetaeva has been a model of resilience as an immigrant, an artist and a woman,” says Bloch, “all of which have been under siege in modern political discourse, all the more reason to amplify her voice for a modern audience.”

The album features Bloch’s quintet with vocalist Kyoko Kitamura, pianist Jacob Sacks, bassist Ken Filiano, and drummer Michael Sarin. The jazz suite, which sets Bloch’s own English translations of Tsvetaeva’s works, was commissioned in 2022 through a grant from Chamber Music America."

$20

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Sacks / Ambrosio / Williams / Doxas / Scott
Aug
17
7:30 PM19:30

Sacks / Ambrosio / Williams / Doxas / Scott

Jacob Sacks - piano
David Ambrosio - bass
Jeff Williams - drums
Chet Doxas - tenor saxophone
Dave Scott - trumpet

Jacob Sacks, David Ambrosio, Jeff Williams, Chet Doxas, and Dave Scott have been playing many sessions together over the past few years and this performance is a chance to essentially open the doors so folks can come and hear all the fun they've been having. The music will feature a mixture of original compositions and jazz classics.

$20

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Team Player's Big League Big Band
Aug
13
8:00 PM20:00

Team Player's Big League Big Band

Brad Linde - alto saxophone/soprano saxophone/flute
Nora Stanley - alto saxophone/flute
Billy Wolfe - tenor saxophone/clarinet
Kevin Sun - tenor saxophone/clarinet
Michael Attias - baritone saxophone
John Lake - trumpet
Jake Henry - trumpet
Kenny Warren - trumpet
Ralph Alessi - trumpet
Kyra Sims - horn
Sam Blakeslee - trombone
Nicole Connelly - trombone
Reginald Chapman - bass trombone
Aaron Quinn - guitar
Hayoung Lyou - piano
Steve Williams - bass
Deric Dickens - drums

Join us for this debut/open rehearsal of a big band version of the world’s premier 12-tone/avant-garde/sports-themed ballad band! With music by Brad Linde, Billy Wolfe, Aaron Quinn, and Deric Dickens arranged by Miho Hazama, Eliana Fishbeyn, Billy Wolfe, Aaron Quinn, and more.

$10

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Luciana Bass and friends
Aug
10
8:00 PM20:00

Luciana Bass and friends

Luciana Bass - guitar

Argentinian guitarist Lucians Bass visits New York for the first time to celebrate her highly lauded solo CD, Desatornillándonos. In a series of duos and trios, she will be joined by NY artists featuring Guillermo Gregorio, Michael Foster, Jennifer Gersten, Chuck Roth, Webb Crawford, Francesca H. and others.

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Fujiyama/Griffin/Nicholson + In Real Time
Aug
8
8:00 PM20:00

Fujiyama/Griffin/Nicholson + In Real Time

Fujiyama/Griffin/Nicholson - 8 pm
Yuko Fujiyama - piano
Stephanie Griffin - viola
Reggie Nicholson - percussion

In Real Time - 9 pm
Carol Liebowitz - piano
Adam Lane - bass
Andrew Drury - drums

Yuko Fujiyama performs for the first time at iBeam with her long time music partner, Reggie Nicholson, and first time collaborator, Stephanie Griffin. She is a founder of NPO, Contemporary East.
https://www.contemporaryeast.org/

$20

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Karen Ng / Jacob Sacks / Vinnie Sperrazza / Ingrid Laubrock
Aug
7
7:30 PM19:30

Karen Ng / Jacob Sacks / Vinnie Sperrazza / Ingrid Laubrock

Karen Ng / Jacob Sacks / Vinnie Sperrazza

Karen Ng - alto saxophone
Jacob Sacks - piano
Vinnie Sperrazza - drums

Karen Ng / Jacob Sacks / Ingrid Laubrock

Karen Ng - alto saxophone
Jacob Sacks - piano
Ingrid Laubrock - tenor saxophone

$20

Saxophonist Karen Ng, visiting from Toronto, joins pianist Jacob Sacks in two different trio formations - the first with drummer Vinnie Sperrazza and the second with saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock - for two freely improvised sets of music.

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Josh Sinton's Predicate/Sidewalk Philosophy
Jul
30
8:00 PM20:00

Josh Sinton's Predicate/Sidewalk Philosophy

Josh Sinton's Predicate - 8 pm

Josh Sinton - baritone sax, bass clarinet
Christopher Hoffman - cello
Tom Rainey - drums

Josh Sinton's Sidewalk Philosophy - 9:00 pm

Josh Sinton - bass clarinet and baritone sax
Marty Ehrlich - alto sax and bass clarinet
Ben Goldberg - clarinet
Kate Gentile - drums

$20

After a sizable hiatus, Josh Sinton presents an evening of new, creative music for two all-star bands. With music especially written for the occasion, it'll be an utterly unique night of sound art.

https://www.instagram.com/joshsinton1/
https://www.instagram.com/christopherhoffman/
https://www.facebook.com/tomrainey555
https://www.instagram.com/ehrlich_marty/
https://www.instagram.com/ben_goldberg_bag/
https://www.instagram.com/kategdrums/

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UNSCRIPTED SOUNDSCAPES
Jul
26
6:00 PM18:00

UNSCRIPTED SOUNDSCAPES

6 pm
Jen Sapiro - Vocal & Piano
Adam Sapiro - Guitar
Mario Fontes - Bass
Chris Veliz - Drums

7 pm
Jonathan Raisin - Tenor Sax
Hans Young Binter - Piano
Zach Swanson - Bass
Ken Kobayashi - Drums

8 pm
Colonial Crime Spree
Eric Shorter - Sax, Words, Bells & Whistles
Giacomo Lorino - Guitar & Electronics
Peter Glynn - Drums

$20

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WOW Summer Festival - night 3
Jul
19
7:30 PM19:30

WOW Summer Festival - night 3

Patricia Brennan Trio - 7:30 pm
Patricia Brennan (vibraphone)
Kim Cass (bass)
Noel Brennan (drums)

Chet Doxas/Tomas Fujiwara Duo - 8:30 pm
Chet Doxas (woodwinds)
Tomas Fujiwara (drums)

Steve Cardenas Trio - 9:30 pm
Steve Cardenas (guitar)
Ben Allison (bass)
Allan Mednard (drums)

$30

Connection Works presents the 4th annual Wide Open Works Summer Festival featuring some of the most creative musicians on the New York jazz and improvised music scene, including jazz legends, new talent and future icons.

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WOW Summer Festival - night 2
Jul
18
7:30 PM19:30

WOW Summer Festival - night 2

LOPEZ / LAUBROCK / RAINEY - 7:30 pm
Brandon Lopez (bass)
Ingrid Laubrock (saxophones)
Tom Rainey (drums)

Michel Gentile Without Borders - 8:30 pm
Michel Gentile (flute)
Anders Nilsson (guitar)
Hilliard Greene (bass)
Tom Rainey (drums)

Caleb Wheeler Curtis Trio - 9:30 pm
Caleb Wheeler Curtis (stritch, trumpet, sopranino saxophone)
Sean Conly (bass)
Michael Sarin (drums)

$30

Connection Works presents the 4th annual Wide Open Works Summer Festival featuring some of the most creative musicians on the New York jazz and improvised music scene, including jazz legends, new talent and future icons.

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WOW Summer Festival - night 1
Jul
17
7:30 PM19:30

WOW Summer Festival - night 1

Rob Garcia - 7:30 pm
Noah Preminger (tenor saxophone)
Julian Shore (piano)
Pablo Menares (bass)
Rob Garcia (drums)

Joe Fonda: From the Source - 8:30 pm
Sam Bardfeld (violin)
Kenny Wessel (guitar)
Joe Fonda (bass)
Rob Garcia (drums)

Tony Malaby Trio - 9:30 pm
Tony Malaby (tenor saxophone)
Brandon Lopez (bass)
Jeff Davis (drums)

$30

Connection Works presents the 4th annual Wide Open Works Summer Festival featuring some of the most creative musicians on the New York jazz and improvised music scene, including jazz legends, new talent and future icons.

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The Brooklyn Free Spirit Festival - Day 2
Jul
13
3:00 PM15:00

The Brooklyn Free Spirit Festival - Day 2

The Second Annual BROOKLYN FREE SPIRIT FESTIVAL is produced by Siren Xypher Collective with support from Alan Feller & Creative Music Studio. The Free Spirit Festival convenes improvised music creatives and audiences to promote freedom of expression, inventiveness, & social-bonding as an antidote to the oppression of all life forms.

3:00pm

Improvisation Workshop (open to all!)
Kyoko Kitamura guides participants through Anthony Braxton’s Musical Systems and beyond. (90-minute workshop in two parts: Anthony Braxton’s Language Music for beginners + further explorations at 3:45pm. Score excerpts provided. Instruments welcome but not required.)

5:00pm

Listening Session & In-Person Interview: AMINA CLAUDINE MYERS
90-minutes of immersion into the luminary pianist/vocalist/composer’s multi-decade body of work. Conversation moderated by W.S. Tkweme, Pan-African Studies Professor at University of Louisville & 25 year radio programmer at stations across the US. Archival support from Ras Moshe Burnett. (Curated by Melanie Dyer)

7:30pm

DoYeon Kim - Gayageum & Voice
Cooper-Moore - Homemade Instruments
Satoshi Takeishi - Drums & Percussion

8:30pm

Mazz Swift & Ana Luisa Díaz de Cossío
Mazz Swift - Violin
Ana Luisa Díaz de Cossío - Violin

$20 Admission / day | cash or Venmo  
Daily Admission includes access to all daytime and evening events 

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BROOKLYN FREE SPIRIT FESTIVAL - Day 1
Jul
12
5:00 PM17:00

BROOKLYN FREE SPIRIT FESTIVAL - Day 1

The 2nd Annual BROOKLYN FREE SPIRIT FESTIVAL is produced by Siren Xypher Collective with support from Alan Feller & Creative Music Studio. The Free Spirit Festival convenes improvised music creatives and audiences to promote freedom of expression, inventiveness, & social-bonding as an antidote to the oppression of all life forms.

5:00pm

Improviser’s Workshop (open to all!) 
Lifelong ecstatic improvising pianist & 40-year Qigong Practitioner Kazzrie Jaxen offers a qigong workshop for creative improvisers. Wuji Gong: Skill of Entering the Supreme Unknown
(comfortable clothes suggested)

7:30pm

Siren Xypher
Melanie Dyer - Viola
Kyoko Kitamura - Voice
Mara Rosenbloom - Piano & Voice

8:30pm

Kazzrie Jaxen Solo Piano

$20 Admission / day | cash or Venmo  
Daily Admission includes access to all daytime and evening events 

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40Twenty
Jul
1
8:30 PM20:30

40Twenty

Jacob Garchik - trombone
Jacob Sacks - piano
David Ambrosio - bass
Vinnie Sperrazza - drums

$20

40Twenty returns to I-Beam, where it originally started over a decade ago exploring long form gigs, to play compositions from all members of the collective.

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The Gowanus Allstars
Jun
29
8:00 PM20:00

The Gowanus Allstars

Briggan Krauss - alto saxophone
Jeong Lim Yang - bass
Chet Doxas - tenor saxophone
Jacob Sacks - piano

Exploring the possibilities and dimensions of sound and texture through free improvisation, the Gowanus Allstars create a soundscape where musical elements can become blurred and the line between distinguishable and indistinguishable can melt away.

$20

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UNSCRIPTED SOUNDSCAPES
Jun
28
6:00 PM18:00

UNSCRIPTED SOUNDSCAPES

6 pm
SJ Fleish - Electroacoustic/Voice

7 pm
Ayumi Ishito - Tenor Sax
Kate Mohanty - Alto Sax
Nicole Connelly - Trombone
Jen Sapiro - Vocals
SJ Fleish - Fx/Voc
Yuko Togami - Drums
Alex Lozupone - Guitar/Bass, Piano

8 pm
Daniel Carter - Windwood
Jeff Pearring - Alto Sax
Ayumi Ishito - Tenor Sax
Yuko Togami - Piano
Zach Swanson - Bass
Ken Kobayashi - Drums

$20

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Novoa / Aerts + Jones
Jun
27
8:00 PM20:00

Novoa / Aerts + Jones

Eva Novoa/ Vivienne Aerts Duo - 8 pm

Vivienne Aerts- vocals, Korg R3 synth & effects
Eva Novoa- piano & Chinese gongs

Art Jones solo - 9 pm

Art Jones- visuals & electronics

Novoa/ Aerts/ Jones Trio - 9:45 pm

Vivienne Aerts- vocals, Korg R3 synth & effects
Eva Novoa- piano & Chinese gongs
Art Jones- visuals & electronics

$20

Eva Novoa presents two different projects for this evening at iBeam. Brooklyn based (Barcelona born) pianist Eva Novoa on piano and Chinese gongs is joined by Dutch vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Vivienne Aerts. Vivienne and Eva met in New York in 2022. For the second set Art Jones will play a solo performance combining visuals and sound. On the third set Art Jones will join Eva Novoa and Vivienne Aerts in a trio set. An evening of great music, projections, visual poetry, images, colors and sound combined with heartfelt improvisations.

Vivienne Aerts
The staggeringly versatile skill-set of NYC-based Dutch Singer, Educator, Psychologist and Artist-preneur Vivienne Aerts busts myths around the ‘Jill of all trades’ paradigm with a nonchalance that leaves even the most skeptical purist taking a bow. A practicing clinical psychologist and choir conductor in Europe before she went on to be a Fulbright scholar and Suma Cum Laude Berklee graduate, her collaborators since have included some of the most iconic names in the world of jazz. Her eclectic ‘experience’ events in collaboration with her husband, renowned pastry chef Ted Steinebach was the root of her multi-disciplinary approach to the making of her new album, ‘Typuhthâng’, which not just features a 100 female musicians from around the globe, but also comes with a bar of bean-to-bar chocolate from Original Beans Chocolate, a company that pro-actively empowers female cacao farmers of Virunga State Park in Congo. Besides this, she is a faculty member at Berklee College of music where she has been instrumental in building a new generation of performers who are not only skilled musicians but also mentally and physically healthy individuals.
https://vivienneaerts.nl/

Art Jones
Art Jones works with film/video and sound. His performances involve the use of instruments including flexatone, kalimba, and analog synths with digital electronics and video as raw material in live improvisation. Jones has collaborated with musicians and artists across genres, and his films and performances have been presented at venues including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Tate Modern, and Roulette Intermedium. He lives in the Bronx, New York City.
@artjones3000

Eva Novoa
"A vivid sense of drama and its intrinsic, minute shadings of light upon dark places animate pianist Eva Novoa's work. Barcelona bred and keening with Brooklyn bravura, Novoa swaps the fore and backgrounds with uncompromised glee. Expressionistic, Impressionistic, and forthright, she aligns and upsets the edges to her liking. (...) the whole of Novoa/Gress/Gray Trio, Vol. 1 is a distinctly engaging and fascinating listen". Mike Jurkovic, All About Jazz **** February 2024.
evanovoa.com

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