Bowery Sessions

            

  

Bowery Sessions:

Acoustic:  Jazz sessions * Songwriter sessions: * Ambient Improvisations.

The live music will function as a catalyst to bring new customers into the market and

Inspire nourish and satisfy existing customers – providing a synesthetically tuned soundtrack that can be modulated to a mercurial environment. 

Aroma, like music is invisible – but affects our physical well – being and heightens our experiences. Music and Aroma connect the Body and Spirit and they can both be used to help connect customers to the essence of the natural environments the store is reflecting.

Music and food are windows into organic reality. These windows should be wide open whenever a customer enters Whole Foods providing a transformative and regenerative sanctuary and micro-vacation from the city not unlike the experience of entering Central Park after a stressful day at work.

Food, like music provides nourishment and through the alchemy of our imagination transforms our day-to-day life in both mystical and fundamental ways.

The more we can tune and infuse our natural essence into everyday life the better our chances of creating a holistic balance of body and spirit and a more harmonious relationship with the planet. What better place to practice this stewardship than in a natural grocery store like Whole Foods?

As this program evolves I envision recordings created from Bowery Sessions sold at other locations or even streaming on-line so delivery customers can still experience sounds from the market at home.

  

Whole Foods Bowery is in a unique position to initiate and experiment with such a program as it is situated in one of the most historically rich and culturally diverse neighborhoods in the world.

Program Overview

The Program is a mercurial seed that will infuse itself into the atmosphere of the store.

It will vacillate between translucence, textural enhancement and conventional performance.

Artists I curate will be fluid improvisers who can adjust the content of their creations with conversational ease. They will play instruments that color and interact with the energy of the store without overpowering it.

Seasonal awareness can be expressed through monthly themes in peripheral artwork and tapestries.

The music can incorporate the essence of each of these themes and provide an ongoing soundtrack from harvest to winter and beyond.

The floor to ceiling pillars in the area can become canvases that reflect the particular conceit of the month in a similar way that The Andy Warhol Bridge in Pittsburgh was used in 2013 to display hand made quilts, which were then donated to charity at the end of the installation.

Ensembles will range from solo pianists, piano duos and trios to solo cellists or violinists, Indian and western percussion, sitar, oud, theremin and saw or an ethereal vocal group.  

Monday, August, 25th
Skye Steele, Violin
James Shipp, Piano

Thursday August, 28th 
Anthony Coleman, Piano

Monday, September 1st
Michael Blake, Reeds
Landon Knoblock, Piano

Thursday September 4th
Jed Distler, Piano

Monday September 8th
Richard Bliwas, Piano

Thursday September 18th
Cat Toren, Piano

Monday, September 22nd:
Tine Kindermann, Saw 
Richard Bliwas, Piano

Thursday, September 25th 
Peter Brainin Duo

The Cats 

Cats around the world suddenly go completely wild. 

A modern classic! 

The Royal Palm

Dave Brubeck a few years before his Time-Out days 

plays with his quartet (including Desmond) 

at the bar in a Miami Beach Hotel. 

The pool band includes a young Bob Marley. 

Brubeck enjoying the cool rhythms of the pool band befriends Marley. 

The show follows Marley and Brubeck palling around the late 50's 

Cuba influenced Miami Beach 

The Out of Towners

The picture begins in a NYC Subway: 

An elderly couple with new purchases from Brooks Brothers stare into space. 

The man looks at the packaging and says: 

Curious Logo 

His wife continues to stare into space

End of Scene 1 --  Begin Opening Credits

Breathing

Breathing will now be regulated in New York by the end of 2027.

Exhalations will be free 

Inhalations for NY residents will be processed at a rate of $.025 per breath by 

Citi-BreathStorage.

All Inhalations are free for children under the age of 12 and senior citizens with 

at least one top 40 Single writing or performing credit.

Cumin 

The film takes place in a small restaurant.

The picture opens with the owner (an Indian Jazz musician) 

explaining to a dissatisfied customer that 

Cumin with Peanut Butter is an "acquired" taste.

The Subterranean Deli Ring 

3 guys walk into a deli and purchase three packs of gum. 
One guy asks the clerk : 

Is it okay if we keep it after you close? 

End of Scene : 

Black Screen : 

Fade into same 3 guys on a submarine. 

The Phone Call 

A middle-aged man sits in a small library type room. The phone rings several times before he gets up from his chair and book places his reading glasses on a marble table 

and walks over to the telephone. The caller hangs up.

Throughout the remainder of the films 120 minutes the phone rings an additional 50 times (164 rings in all) with the caller always hanging up and the middle aged man always responding from different positions in the room.