END OF THE WEEKEND WITH A BENEFIT FOR HAITI, SOON ONE FOR JAPAN..

Moira and friends organized a wonderful benefit for Haiti with videos. films, live music and dj'ing. A nice crowd of people came out and some money was raised for the cause.

In the pic's you can see Kenny Wollesen jamming , percussion man from one of the bands.

Patricie Blanchard played as well and last pic is Greg Caz and Ron.

LOVE TRIO IN DA HOUSE !!!!

Love Trio was here tonite ...and rocked it til 4.10 am....we just couldnt stop....felt like that . The funny thing was that vocalist Gabriel Gordon was going to come up and sing a song that we just made for the Wax Poetic new cd. So Kenji the sound man put up a microphone on stage for him , and I guess other musiicnas seeing this mic thought somehow it was an opne mic nite or something so we ended having 8 different vocalists and rappers come up and do their thing . Marla Turner was one of them and she was great , then finally at 3.55 am Gabe came up and we premiered Good and Evil from the up and coming Wax Poetic album. So yes it did become a little Love Trio and Wax Poetic mixed up.

Here in the pic is great dj MKL and wonderful vocalist Aya , Fernanda and Lucia hanging out , Kenny Wollesen steeling some beers from the fridge , Klas Wikberg , Swedish producer who just finished the new Wax Poetic album and finally some Nublu late nite shots..

Tonite Haiti benefit and yes very soon Japan benefit .....see ya all tonite !!!!

WE DEMONSTRATED AGAINST MONSANTO !!!...JOIN THE FIGHT !

This morning some of us woke up and went down to City Hall to demonstrate agaisnt the terrible terrible company Monsanto . Pleas all of you read what this company is doin to our food !!

join the fight !!!!

We had a sign saying " Don't shit where you eat " ....then after awhile Police told us we can't use that " shit" word in public so we had to fold up the banner. Oh well, at least we joined the protest and more to come .....

CALIBRO 35 !!!

This band visiting us from Italy is a very special band . They have a chemistry that makes this whole thing make total sense. Italians playing funky Italian soundtrack music 70's style. It just seems so natural for them to riff away with the esthetics of just that , Italian car chase music. I think they surprised everyone with being so tight and really having a show, although no bank -robber- stockings this time around. But yes they totally rocked the house , and we want them back !

Alex from Tokyo was spinnin' the nite away with his eclectic style of dj'ing . Not everyone knows how to dj by "playing the room" . I find that many dj's have their thing prepared and many times they seem to forget to play the energy of the nite and the room , but ye Alex always does this ...cool !

Here in the pic is the keyboard/sax/flute man from Calibro 35 Enrico , some peeps dancing , John Farris , the East Village poet who has been living in the neighborhood since 1958 stopped by to show us some of his latest drawings .

See ya all Saturday nite for Love Trio...

SO. OK . OHH YEEEE....AND SPANISH , MADRID, TATOO ARTISTS....AND ERNESTO NETO AND FLEA CAME BY...AND CALIBRO 35 !!!

CALIBRO 35 ARE IN TOWN ...AND FORRO IN THE DARK MADE IT DANCY ONE MO' TIME !!

Forro in the Dark were on tonite , after a sudden hail storm brutally showered Manhattan . It made sense to make it even dancier than ever. They made the room into a steam room, literally , I saw men with completely wet t-shirts and their lady partners at the time didn't seem to mind a bit. Jorge was taking the mic lots last nite since Davi is still traveling . He is good !!! The sax and flute man Jorge Continentino comes from a family full of great musicians, his brothers Alberto and Kiko and their Father and Mother , I think everyone is pretty much right in there in the Brazilian musical tree. So , ye Jorge , keep on singing !

Mauro Refosco came running into the set from another show he just did with Devotchka , who are in town They are playing tonite as well at Highline Ballroom. Their new album "100 Lovers" sounds real good.

Mauro is this percussion man that plays with everyone. From David Byrne , Caetano Veloso, Bebel Gilberto to Thom Yorke. So ye Forro in the Dark every wednesday at Nublu !!!

This morning I woke up and went to Mogador to have breakfast and there ran into Flea ,the bassman from "Red Hot Chili Peppers", whom I met previosuly through Mauro Refosco while on tour with Thom Yorke's " Atoms for Peace" . I asked him to stop by Nublu since he's never been here. He said yee..

Tonite and tomorrow we have Nublu records' signed Italian cool cool band Calibro 35 ! They were just in Austin's SXSW and played at the magazine Wax Poetics showcase . They were apparently the only band that got an encore request . So yeah , stop by Tonite at 10 pm or tomorrow Friday at midnite and 2 am for some Funky Italian 70's carchase movie soundtrack music , but ofcourse their own music .

Ohhhh yeeeeeeeeeeeeee..........

NUBLU ORCHESTRA ROCKED AND ROCKS .....

There is nothing out there like Nublu Orchestra conducted by Butch Morris. Monday nite at Nublu Butch was masterful in his conduction . He made new music with us , really , music that never existed before in any shape. When our record came out 2 years ago we had quite a few concerts in Europe at that time. Now it's been awhile but we just got invited to play the Warzaw, Poland, jazzfestival june 20th in . Exciting indeed !...and we are recording a new record very very soon !

We have had 3 12" vinyls released out as well. With one side being original cuts and other side being remixes.....check them out if you haven't yet.

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NUBLU ORCHESTRA !!

LET'S HEAL !!

SUPER MOON !!

The nite of the super moon. We all thought something might happen , something scary , but the nite was flowing and we dedicated the music to the moons....

Federico Aubele who will soon start touring his new record came by and is in the pic. Mehmet from the club Babylon , Istanbul ,visiting after 2 confusing overloaded days apparently in Austin's SXSW. Legendary bassman Juini booth was on bass since Jesse was away for the weekend. Juini has quite a history for all of you who doesn't know. He has pretty much played with everyone who matters in the jazz scene...since the late sixties Joe Henderson's big band to Freddie Hubbard , then Art Blakey and McCoy Tyner, then onto Sun ra and Steve Grossman and inbetween a member of the elite band ...Tony Williams' Life Time band. He has pretty much done it all .

Juini and Kenny Wollesen in the last pic.

FRIDAY NITE/MY CAMERA NEEDS A FLASH !!!

I really have to get a better camera or rather maybe stop trying to use my phone to take pics. I had so many great pic's from last nite but theyr'e all dark. Maybe the pic's reflect the world , I duno. Just so sad to wake up and see that while the world is trying to understand the scope of Japan's crisis that is quickly becoming all our crisis , we are bombing another country yet again. Who are those people making all those crazy decisions..? I think they had enough time in the past 50 years to structure our society that obviously has some serious flaws in all kinds of directions. To start we should BAN nuclear energy...isn't it obvious how crazy this is?!! Meanwhile, here at Nublu we continue spreading some love through music...

Petrit of Nublu Records is in SXSW in Austin for the marathon showcases with our signed band Calibro 35. They're a hot band from Italy , check them out !!

Last nite we had Toni K dj'ing and her crowd of wild girls dancing all nite . I led three lives played a rocky set with Toni's friend sitting in on some vocals . Earlier set of the evening was by Jesse Harris, the composer of many Norah Jones songs. I went earlier in the evening to the beautiful Bowery Hotel where singer /songwriter Diego Garcia had a showcase. 2 of the band members , Jochen Rueckert and Zeke Zima, Nublu boys ..play with him time to time. It was cool dramatic latin pop. It's interesting to me while the world is seeing harder times in general and younger crowds seeming to have less and less money to spend but more and more fancy boutique hotels is the "in" places to go to . Not only in NYC but also Paris, Istanbul , Sao Paulo and I guess everywhere, this trend of hanging out at hotel bars...very strange indeed ! I guess it is like a drug , people get their quick fix feeling of fanciness. oh well.....

Tonite Love trio is back to play although our bassman Jesse Murphy is on a small tour with Regina Carter . Legendary bassman Juini Booth will play the bass tonite with us instead.

Here in the pic's from last nite is Diego Garcia and band at the bowery Hotel. At Nublu, multi media artist Kino, photographer/DJ Vladi with nublu doorman/boxing champion/artist Rich, some new Petar art and Toni K and friend.

FORRO ON THE ROCKS .....

Forro were on the rocks today . Meaning they were basically rockin it . Davie Vieira was out of town today but Aaron Johnston of the Brazilian Girls , and other cool bands around here, played his part instead. And ofcourse , rocked it !! What else to do ??

Here are some pic's of the evening ..not the full Forro in the Dark, almost , next 3 members next week....here is Mauro, Jorge , Aaron ( special guest tonite) and a pic of Forro i the dark in action . ( I know very dark.... soon come ). And some brilliant Nublu art be our man Petar !!

MUSICIANS NITE WHEN BLOOMDADDIES PLAYS !

Tonite was a real musician nite here. Matt Penman and Aidan , both bassists, Jojo Meyer and Chinas hottest drummer, Mico ,in the picture. Then more great drummers , Jochen Rueckert , Dan Rieser and Tony Mason, the latter 2 from the Bloomdaddies. Saxophonists Seamus Blake and Chris Cheek , and bassist Jesse Murphy are also in that band . It was kinda the first band out around here that started messing with pedals and making it electric in a diffrent kinda way. I think the band started playing already back in 1993. Bloomdaddies sounds to me something like an elecctric mix with Warne Marsh/ Lee Konitz kinda melodies with Led Zeppelin kinda releases all played on the above mentioned instruments. . Psychadelic but very organized and the players being so good, it just makes everything flow like its the easiest normal song you ever heard.

NUBLU ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY BUTCH MORRIS !!

We all had fun in the Orchestra tonite. I think it's time to soon make a new cd. There were 4 horn players, 2 drummers , 2 bassists and 1 vibraphonist. Butch is expanding the music in general . Pushing the boundries in every way , rhythmically, sonically, harmonically, ye pretty much in every sense. Like pushing art in general to a new dimension , not necessarily always to higher dimensions, although that does happen , but more to another dimension. Lots of new faces in the room explored it as well.

Here in the pic's are DJ Alexis , Brandon Ross who was playing guitar with us and Butch Morris . The Man !