The Red Microphone at Metropolitan Room

THE RED MICROPHONE INVADES CHELSEA CABARET! Help us to break down the barriers that close out New Jazz---join new revolutionary jazz quartet THE RED MICROPHONE as we play the Met Room's late-night jazz series on a hot Saturday night......
John Pietaro: vibraphone, multi-percussion;
Ras Moshe: tenor & soprano saxophones,flute; Rocco John Iacovone: alto & soprano saxophones;
Nicolas Letman-Burtinovic: double bass
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“A special brand of new revolutionary jazz” – DooBeeDooBeeDoo magazine
THE RED MICROPHONE is a NYC-based New Music/New Jazz quartet of rad musicians engaging in a repertoire drenched in free jazz, dissident swing and contemporary composition at once exploratory, compelling and patently “downtown”. Call it post-Ornette, Post-Dolphy, post-Occupy music. The Red Microphone’s art is as revolutionary as the times demand....

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THE RED MICROPHONE INVADES CHELSEA CABARET! Help us to break down the barriers that close out New Jazz---join new revolutionary jazz quartet THE RED MICROPHONE as we play the Met Room's late-night jazz series on a hot Saturday night......
John Pietaro: vibraphone, multi-percussion;
Ras Moshe: tenor & soprano saxophones,flute; Rocco John Iacovone: alto & soprano saxophones;
Nicolas Letman-Burtinovic: double bass
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“A special brand of new revolutionary jazz” – DooBeeDooBeeDoo magazine
THE RED MICROPHONE is a NYC-based New Music/New Jazz quartet of rad musicians engaging in a repertoire drenched in free jazz, dissident swing and contemporary composition at once exploratory, compelling and patently “downtown”. Call it post-Ornette, Post-Dolphy, post-Occupy music. The Red Microphone’s art is as revolutionary as the times demand.

The Red Microphone has performed at such New York City spaces as Shapeshifter Lab, ABC No Rio, the Brecht Forum, 17 Frost, ZirZamin and Downtown Music Gallery with upcoming dates at the Metropolitan Room, the Firehouse Space and Cornelia St Café among others.

The ensemble’s debut CD, ‘The Red Microphone Speaks’ was released in April 2013. Self-produced but mastered by legendary producer Kramer, the disc features sweeping free improvisation, original works, adaptations of earlier fight-back songs, and treatments of militant prose and poetry. All that and original jazz and new music that recalls the New Objectivity, the Third Stream, the New Thing and the No Wave. Guest vocalist Nora McCarthy is heard on “L’Internationale Reconstruct” in the company of the found voices of Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Dalton Trumbo and VI Lenin.

The Red Microphone’s single “Brecht Breakdown” was released on the IFAR label (UK) as part of the international compilation ‘Beat Sounds From Way Out Vol 4’, December 2012.

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