STOOP SESSION 4 : Charles goold + jam session

Friday, December 2 at 7:30-9:30PM, doors open at 6:15PM.
At 1-800 Happy Birthday
7 Knickerbocker Avenue

Charles Goold is one of the city's hardest working jazz drummers of his generation. Son of Ned Goold, legendary saxophonist, Charles was able to hear, live and embody jazz from the day he was born, performing with a variety of musicians since age 11. Goold graduated from The Juilliard School and was awarded The Juilliard Career Advancement Fellowship Grant in May 2017. Goold has performed with the best in the jazz industry and a wide variety of acts from Wynton Marsalis and The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Javon Jackson, Johnny O'Neal, Steve Nelson, to one off collaborations with rap legends Talib Kweli, Ghostface Killah and Cam’Ron. Goold’s debut album “Rhythm in Contrast” features all of these different influences ranging from Jazz to Afro Caribbean rhythms and funk.

Goold’s piece “Resisting Arrest” highlights the Pan-African struggle with police brutality in America. Each section of the piece represents a different continent of the African diaspora, West Africa, United States and the Caribbean.

Charles Goold - drums Jon Thomas - piano Mark Lewandowski - bass

To attend, please register below.

About Stoop sessions

Join us every other Friday at 7pm for Stoop Sessions at 1-800 Happy Birthday—the exhibition honoring Black and Brown lives killed by police. With these live jazz music events we are celebrating Black and Brown culture and legacy in America.

Stoop Sessions are organized in partnership with Ornithology Jazz Club and Gotham Yardbird Sanctuary who curated Stoop Sessions 2-5.

About 1-800 Happy Birthday

1-800 Happy Birthday is an exhibition honoring Black and Brown lives killed by police. Originally a voicemail project, now transformed into a large-scale exhibition in a 10,000 square-foot warehouse, 1-800 Happy Birthday is created by artist Mohammad Gorjestani and Even/Odd, curated by Klaudia Ofwona Draber, with artistic direction by Neil Hamamoto, and presented by arts nonprofit WORTHLESSSTUDIOS with the aim of honoring the lives of those lost too soon. The families of Dujuan Armstrong, Sandra Bland, Philando Castile, Stephon Clark, Fred Cox, Eric Garner, Oscar Grant, Xzavier Hill, Donovon Lynch, Sean Monterrosa, Tony Robinson, and Mario Woods are participating in the exhibition.