jojoSOUL Dance, drum

Thank you, 2017… Welcome NewYorkWild.Life!

What. A. Year…

I’d like to thank everyone who helped me along my path this year, those who supported and influenced me, and those whom I’ve had the privilege to work with this year.  You all inspire me and give me the strength and understanding to continue toward my goals and lessons.  I appreciate all the opportunities I’ve been blessed with this year, and look forward to continuing to cultivate my skills, feelings, abilities, and passions.

With love in my heart, I present to you a new project title and purpose.  NewYorkWild.Life is a self-assessment, a look inward to define what I can express outward, and an honest interpretation of what I’ve found within and wish to share in hopes of inspiring and entertaining.

I am grateful to be in the company of my partner, Agave L’amour.  Your constant support and inspiration keeps wind in my sails, and continues to prove the impossible is only what we allow to beat us.  You are a great teacher and beautiful human, and I thank you for everything.  Here’s to so many more impossibly beautiful moments with you.  Tqm

Now then… ready for 2018?  😉

 

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jojoSOUL Community, drum, Education, Percussion

Looking for an exciting Drum Lesson?

New Schedule!  Many slots available for new students! Discounts for repeat students!

Schedule your lessons at my studio in Bushwick- no drums required, I got PLENTY! 😉

Lessons at your location also available.

1/2 hour and hour lessons available, also groups- all ages.

Call/text 917-602-7340 or email jojoSOULaudio@gmail.com for questions, availability, and booking.

Learn how to turn your music appreciation into rhythm, drumming, keeping time, and creating within your first lesson!

Studio includes acoustic drum sets, electronic drum set, percussion, djembes, sampling, and DJ equipment.

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jojoSOUL Dance, DJ, LIVE, Sound Art, Vinyl

Thanks to Norte Maar and the Brooklyn Museum!

Great night at the museum!  Dancers, artists, speakers, poets, and sound artists collaborated live for the Brooklyn Performance Combine.

Thanks to all who joined us for all your support!  Special thanks to Jason Andrew, Julia Gleich, and Norte Maar for your beautiful and continued artistic efforts.  So proud to be a part of the collaborative, and always grateful for the inspiration.

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Turntable Sound Check in Beaux-Arts Court, Brooklyn Museum

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Beautiful Beaux-Arts Court, Brooklyn Museum

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Cellists and Sound Artists across the marley, DJ view from turntables

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jojoSOUL manipulating John Cage vinyl for collaborative art/dance performance, presented by Norte Maar

jojoSOUL Dance, DJ, LIVE, Vinyl

11/1/14- Brooklyn Performance Combine

Saturday, November 1- 7-9pm – FREE

BROOKLYN MUSEUM

Norte Maar, Brooklyn Performance Combine, Brooklyn Museum, collaborative event

This event is free November 1, 7-9pm

@ Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn

featuring a durational mashup of Brooklyn based

poets, painters, and performers including:

DJ jojoSOUL remixing John Cage records

Poets/Writers:
Paul D’Agostino

Elaine Equi

Mika Gillman

Jerome Sala

and Sarah Schmerler

Painters/Sculptors:
Amy Feldman, painter
Tamara Gonzales, painter

Brooke Moyse, painter
Loren Munk, painter

Jessica Weiss, painter
Rachel Beach, sculptor
Ben Godward, sculptor
Jim Osman, sculptor

Performers:
Josh Henderson, violist
Allie Pizzo, tap dancer

Jeff Feld (performing the only part of Robert Rauschenberg’s “Pelican” that he knows)
Mariel Roberts performing Tristan Perich’s piece for solo cello
and six-channel 1-bit electronics
Brooklyn Ballet Youth Ensemble w Gleich Dances
Tiffany Mills Company
Edisa Weeks / Delirious Dances
Vangeline Theater

Andrew Hurst

and William Powhida

Poster image credit: Rico Gatson

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Norte Maar presents its most ambitious collaborative event to date!  The Brooklyn Performance Combine is a spontaneous mashup of poets, painters, and performers at the Brooklyn Museum on November 1 from 7-9pm. This event coincides with the museum’s Target Free Saturdays and responds to the museum’s current exhibition Crossing Brooklyn: Bushwick, Bed-Stuy and Beyond. The event is free.

Not so unlike the historic Theater Event #1 that took place at Black Mountain College during the summer of 1952, andNorte Maar’s own End of the World performance at English Kills, The Brooklyn Performance Combine Event unites all art forms in a fusion of poetry, sound, dance, and performance in a single cohesive 120-minute event. It will be epic.

A timer will start the countdown for the performance. Each artist will be programmed to begin and end at a time designated through chance operations within the 120-minute interval. At times a poet will be reading while a sound artist is performing. A dancer will enter, perform and depart. Sounds will overlap. There will be silence. Every aspect of the performance will be unrehearsed, live, spontaneous, and uninterrupted. Audiences can come and go as the event clock ticks out of time.
Norte Maar for Collaborative Projects in the Arts
83 Wyckoff Avenue, #1B, Brooklyn, NY 11237
646-361-8512 | nortemaar.org
jojoSOUL On the Air, Underground Radio

Spread the JAM: Ronnie Legend, King AJ, Justin Allen

Bronx in the building!  Much love to Ronnie Legend, King AJ, and Justin Allen for coming to the show, helping us Spread the JAM!

Straight talk on hip-hop, music industry, up and coming acts and actions, and a wide variety of music in this mix!

Interviews and talk at 00:41:00, more plus freestyles and jam at 01:01:00, interviews and new tracks at 01:49:00, final jam with djembe at 02:15:00.

Hear the recorded show on Mixlr!

Follow up on Mixcloud!  Spread the JAM: Ronnie Legend, Justin Allen, AJ by Jojosoul on Mixcloud

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jojoSOUL On the Air

Listen in and “Spread the JAM” + highlights from LIVEatFIVE!

(*Explicit Language/Lyrics)

Now that LIVEatFIVE has moved to the 8pm time slot, RG & jojoSOUL are excited to “Spread the JAM“!

We’re continuing our wide-variety of music, artists, remixes, and special guests providing live music, comedy, poetry, DJs, MCs, freestyles, and more…

January 21- Special Guest Saxophonist Yael Ben Natan, new music from LaToya Smith, the TRIO jams to MLK- Black America vinyl, and more… our maiden voyage on primetime!

To listen, click the Mixlr Player on front page of jojoSOUL.com.

If you have an interest in joining us on the air, please email jojoSOULaudio@gmail.com.

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jojoSOUL DJ, LIVE, On the Air

Extended LIVEatFIVE Finale today, moving to 8pm next week!

Saying goodbye to the 5pm slot by popular demand.  Listeners have requested primetime!

Join us today with our local friends and past guests to finish out the 5pm slot HARD!

RG, Modesto “Flako” Jimenez, Suede Hernandez, Slick Eastwood, Frank Rathbone, and more!

The party’s at jojo’s at 5pm, TUNE IN!

*ONLY on jojoSOUL.com*

jojoSOUL Review

jojo’s Drum Workshop at Block Party in Queens- SUCCESS!

I had the recent privilege of being invited to teach/perform a drum workshop at a block party nearby in Ridgewood, Queens.

Thanks to Lauren for the wonderful review!

Lauren L. – Ridgewood, Queens– “I had had the idea to do something neat for the neighborhood kids in Ridgewood for our summer block party and hired Jojo to do a drum ‘thing’.  I really had no idea what to expect or what the turn out would be, given that it wasn’t exactly an RSVP kind of event.  Jojo showed up, on time, instruments in hand, and riveted the neighborhood children for hours.  He was dynamic and engaging, yet soothing and captivating at the same time.  Kids stayed and played and listened and learned because they wanted to, not because they had to.  He was an inspiration to them all and will be remembered by many of them for some time to come.  I would definitely recommend his services as both a teacher and an entertainer.  It was perfect.”