Rizzoli Music Aperitivo presents Caroline Davis' Alula.
Tickets include a glass of wine, provided by Field Blend Selections. Seating is limited and is first come, first served. Doors open at 4:45 pm.
Caroline Davis created Alula to absorb electronic components into her performances and compositions. “Alula” is the word for a magical structure on bird wings that appears during moments of take off, flight, and landing. Using this word to describe the project implies that electronic elements are a hidden, yet essential component of Caroline's musical identity.
Of the band’s first release, The New York Times wrote, "you can hear Ms. Davis's talent for deriving long, dizzying motifs from smaller melodic cells." Alula’s second album, Captivity, situates her compositions alongside the lives of eight heroes who kept hope alive through incarceration....
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Rizzoli Music Aperitivo presents Caroline Davis' Alula.
Tickets include a glass of wine, provided by Field Blend Selections. Seating is limited and is first come, first served. Doors open at 4:45 pm.
Caroline Davis created Alula to absorb electronic components into her performances and compositions. “Alula” is the word for a magical structure on bird wings that appears during moments of take off, flight, and landing. Using this word to describe the project implies that electronic elements are a hidden, yet essential component of Caroline's musical identity.
Of the band’s first release, The New York Times wrote, "you can hear Ms. Davis's talent for deriving long, dizzying motifs from smaller melodic cells." Alula’s second album, Captivity, situates her compositions alongside the lives of eight heroes who kept hope alive through incarceration.
The creative music community has been incredibly responsible for major contributions to social justice and for doing civil rights work even before certain movements were created. Through coded lyrics by Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith, to Nina Simone’s impactful lyrics in “Mississippi Goddam” and “Young, Gifted, and Black”, inspired by Lorraine Hansberry’s words, to Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite, to Terri Lyne Carrington’s recent gathering, Music for Abolition; jazz and creative musicians have always been present, creating artistic works to protest injustices and speak truth to power.
Davis’ album stands on the shoulders of these influences, providing creative insight on the injustices present in the system of mass incarceration in America, and highlights the undeniable strength of those who have been, and some who are still, incarcerated. This performance will feature Chris Tordini on electric bass and Jason Nazary on drums.
RIZZOLI MUSIC APERITIVO
From Francis Scott Fitzgerald to Jack Kerouac, from Toni Morrison to James Baldwin, from Philip Michael Ondaatje to Geoff Dyer, from Julio Cortazar to Boris Vian, from Amiri Baraka and Ishmael Reed to Jayne Cortez, the list of international writers and poets inspired or intrigued by jazz and other musical genres goes on. Since New York City’s Rizzoli Bookstore has a long tradition of building bridges between arts genres, international scenes, and creative people, we wanted to turn our gorgeous space in NoMad into an experimental living room where live jazz and other music can be enjoyed. The Rizzoli Music Aperitivo is sponsored by Field Blend Selections and is curated by Mondo Jazz, the weekly Radio Free Brooklyn show dedicated to international jazz
MONDO JAZZ
Mondo Jazz is a weekly program on Radio Free Brooklyn dedicated to the proposition that jazz is an international language. It is hosted every Wednesday night from 10 PM to midnight and Thursday morning from 8 to 10 AM, by Ludovico Granvassu, the founder and editor in chief of All About Jazz Italia.
FIELD BLEND SELECTIONS
Founded in January 2017, Field Blend Selections is a new wine importing and distribution company based in New York City, serving the New York and New Jersey markets.
In both name and practice, Field Blend Selections celebrates agricultural traditions and diversity. The name is an homage to the nineteenth-century immigrants who co-planted an assortment of grape varieties in vineyards throughout the United States, many of which survive today. Alongside their vines, they often co-planted other crops, including fruits, grains, and legumes. This approach of co-mingling various plantings to achieve balance in the vineyards is now referred to as polyculture, and it is widely recognized as one of the best methods for naturally enriching soils and reducing disease. Polyculture, by replicating nature’s diverse ecosystems, produces healthier fruit without the necessity of artificial herbicides or pesticides.
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