MUSIC

Take Two: Angel Bat Dawid X “Untitled”

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2023
7:00 PM

Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn

$30.90
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Kicking off a series where we first listen to some worthy album on Public Records’ Sound Room’s fabulous sound system — the best of any club in New York, in this List’s estimation — and we then hear some leading contemporary improviser improvise on it. This show’s album is Nas’s great Untitled — an album that was supposed to be called “Nigger” until a then-New York State Assemblyman named Hakeem Jeffries used the investment power of the State Pension Fund to block it, unfortunately. The lead improviser is the deep clarinetist Angel Bat Dawid — and she’s got some pretty stellar accompaniment by people like drummer Tcheser Holmes and members of the art-jazz-funk collective Standing on the Corner.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Good, fresh Korean at Insa (as always, forego the barbecue and east in the lounge/bar room, which is much nicer than the drab dining room).