MUSIC

DeForrest Brown Jr.: Bombingham

WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 2023
8:00 PM

Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn

$25 advance; $30 door; $20 students/seniors; free live stream
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DeForrest Brown Jr. — an incredibly trenchant musician/analyst best known to List readers as Speaker Music (and who says this will be his last performance as a U.S. citizen!) — debuts a new high-tech jazz orchestra called Bombingham. Brown has family roots in his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama — and it’s also where Sun Ra is from. Oh, and four girls were murdered there when the Klan bombed a Black church.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, very good cocktails and even good food at Grand Army Bar. Streaming at home, have an Old Fashioned: muddle 1 sugar cub, 2 dashes of Angostura bitters, and (optinal) an orange peel in the bottom of an Old Fashioned glass. Pour in 2 oz. Bourbon (I prefer Rye in this drink but I’m pretty sure they don’t in Alabama). Stir. Add ice. Stir again. Garnish with an orange twist.