Umbra’s off-kilter and downtempo DJ sets return with Myyuh this week.

Come for industry night drink specials and some of Brooklyn’s best DJs playing their favorite tracks they can never whip out in the nightclub.

Spicy Dreams’ sound draws from a wide range of musical influences to create something diverse, yet cohesive. Tinges of trip-hop, disco, funk, modern electronica, dance-punk, and classic rock all blend together to create something unique and new, yet surreally familiar.

Featuring the owners of Umbra, Zach Schepis & Jorge Guarch.

She envisions music as a language, where genres become different lexical fields to build deeper self-expression. Raised by a Spanish mother and Reunioneese father, Natie grew up surrounded by music ranging from that of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Lakshminarayana Subramaniam—the acclaimed Indian violinist—in the home. The cultural diversity of the island remains a key component in her artistic development.

Natie began playing the violin at the age of 6 at the Conservatory of music of Reunion, where she pursued classical studies. Through her father, a jazz musician, she was introduced to the world of improvisation and fusion from a young age. At 18, Natie moved to Australia and completed a Bachelor of Music at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Since relocating to New York City, Natie has collaborated with bands and artists of a broad spectrum including The Sketchy Orkestra, Kennedy Administration, and more recently Beyoncé and Jay-Z.

Sarah Cabral grew up in southern Brazil. She draws on modern jazz, avant-garde, and classical influences to breathe new life into seemingly bygone eras of traditional and popular Brazilian music. A recent review by Helvécio Cardoso in Diário da Manha read that her music “unites the sophistication of the most exquisite taste and simplicity.”

Cabral studied at The California Jazz Conservatory with mentor Marcos Silva, and has collaborated with artists like Eva Scow, Scott Thompson, and the legendary Bororó Felipe.

Cabral is currently based in New York City and is working on her current project produced by Grammy winner nominated Chico Pinheiro. She also continues to perform at notable venues and festivals around the country.

Umbra’s off-kilter and downtempo DJ sets return with Babes the DJ this week.

Come for industry night drink specials and some of Brooklyn’s best DJs playing their favorite tracks they can never whip out in the nightclub.

Yvonnick Prené is a professional jazz musician, bandleader, composer, and educator based in the greater New York City area. He is one of the most unique and innovative harmonicists on the scene today.

Prené has recorded seven acclaimed albums as a leader, including  Listen! (2023) on Sunnyside Records featuring Kevin Hays, Bill Stewart, Dayna Stephens, Jeremy Pelt and Clovis Nicholas.  His latest recording, "Jobim's World" with pianist Geoff Keezer is set to be released on Sunnyside Records on 06/07/2024.

Prené has performed and/or recorded with New York luminaries such as Peter Bernstein, Rick Margitza, Joe Farnsworth, Steve Cardenas, Pasquale Grasso, Jon Cowherd, Rich Perry, Brian Charette, Jared Gold, Rick Germanson, Jeb Patton, Jerome Sabbagh, among others. 

Swing & Gypsy Jazz at its Best. Encompassing French jazz, swing for dancing, and cinematic 20's-30's sound colorations, their repertoire includes tunes from Django Reinhardt, Duke Ellington, and Fats Waller.

Born and raised in uptown Manhattan, Brother Tito Deler is the son of immigrants from the Dominican Republic with a natural gift for music. Brother Tito plays a steel body National Resonator guitar. Writing and performing songs of his own he combines sounds from his Harlem upbringing with the style of pre-war Mississippi Delta blues and gospel. He released his first record, The Original Harlem Slim in 2012 followed by a series of single and his latest LP, It’s A Beautiful Thing. 

Nikki Sweet is an artist who contains multitudes — sex worker, singer and record label founder. She’s a self-proclaimed “queer artist, shameless slut, proud sex worker and art is my catharsis.”

She created her label, V.O.W. (or Vibing Over Whoreism), for artists who face stigma in the industry. And while Sweet may be the first and only signee, she is dedicated to expanding the label to help her NYC community. She has fundraised with kink sessions, lap dances, merch sales, raffles and ticket donations through her Brooklyn-based party series.

Cole Stone-Frisina is a genre-bending and virtuosic saxophonist based in Brooklyn, New York. He hails from Atlanta, Georgia, where he was exposed to many soulful and melodic elements of jazz that remain in his playing today. He graduated from the prestigious New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in 2018, and has since garnered attention in both the New York and global music worlds. He performs multiple times per week in New York city with his own groups and as a sideman. Maintaining a full gig schedule of many different genres, Cole plays anything and everything that will widen the scope of his experience.

Yotam Silberstein, one of the leading jazz guitarists of his generation, has gained acclaim for a sound rich in bebop and blues as well as musical folklore from South America, North Africa and the Middle East, giving his music an increasingly global thrust. His mature compositional gift and gripping interpretive finesse are vividly represented on his 2022 release Universos and his 2020 outing with Argentine multi-instrumentalist and composer Carlos “Negro” Aguirre titled En el jardín. He is a member of the John Patitucci Trio (heard on the acclaimed album Irmãos de Fé), has toured extensively with legendary Brazilian singer-songwriter Ivan Lins, and played with characteristic fire and taste on Monty Alexander’s GRAMMY-nominated Harlem-Kingston Express Live! as well as David Sanborn & Marcus Miller’s Time and the River.

Master kora player Yacouba Sissoko devotes his musical gift to expand the awareness of West African history and culture, spread the word of peace, and empower his listeners to take charge and realize their imagined futures. His performances have a magical effect on audiences as he skillfully transforms traditional songs and stories that he learned from his forefathers into modern day messages of peace, love, and harmony.

His flexible virtuosity, which enables him to move seamlessly from one musical genre to another, has attracted the attention of an array of musicians who have sought him out as a collaborator.

All the while, Yacoba exposes new audiences to the enchanting sounds of the kora—a 21-stringed instrument that is plucked and produces a distinctive sound that is quickly associated with West Africa.

Perowsky’s notable career has placed him among a small vanguard of players able to move between jazz, experimental music and cutting edge pop and rock. He cut his teeth as a youth playing drums for the likes of Rickie Lee Jones, John Cale, Roy Ayers, James Moody, Bob Berg, Mike Stern and Michael Brecker. Broke ground driving back beats for NY bands Elysian Fields and Joan as Policewoman as well as John Lurie’s Lounge Lizards. He Co-founded the electric jazz group Lost Tribe and has continued to record and perform with pop and jazz legends such as John Scofield, Belle and Sebastian, John Zorn, Dave Douglas, Lou Reed, Pat Martino, Tegan and Sara, Uri Caine, Steven Bernstein, Walter Becker, Vernon Reid, Loudon, Martha and Rufus Wainwright.

From running Jam sessions in Woodstock, NY with Stefan Lessard (Dave Matthews Band) on acoustic bass, to playing and arranging for Corey Glover (Living Colour), Neal Spitzer strives to play the best and with the best. He has performed with Jimmy Cobb, Arnie Lawrence, Ricky Ford, Lew Soloff, David Amram, Mark Morganelli's Jazz Forum All-Stars, Cameron Brown, Jonathan Kreisberg, Bakithi Kumalo, Michael Mossman,  and many others. 

His group, The Neal Spitzer Ensemble, has been performing original music for almost 30 years.