Gig Alert: Sebastián Cruz and the Cheap Landscape Trio

By
Monika Fabian
Music Hub | Dec 28, 2011

Sebastián Cruz and the Cheap Landscape Trio
"Paradis Quarter"
Playing Wednesday night at Cornelia Street Cafe (29 Cornelia St., Greenwich Village)
Get: Tickets ($10 at the door) | Directions 

Colombian roots meets city living in the energetic, rock-inflected jazz of Sebastián Cruz and the Cheap Landscape Trio. The electric guitarist and composer formed the New York-based group in 2008 to explore his identity as a Colombian New Yorker and the friction produced when his native country's musical traditions “[rub] against elements of urban New York City life (multi-cultural mesh, recycling, discarding, minor epiphanies, and major cacophonies).”

Download the group's carnivalesque “Paradis Quarter” above and check out Sebastián Cruz and the Cheap Landscape Trio -- featuring bassist Stomu Takeishi and guest drummer Satoshi Takeishi -- perform at Cornelia Street Café on Wednesday night.  

In the video below, watch Cruz’s take on the three-line Japanese poetic form “Haiku,” pairing brief, beautiful compositions with quietly-captivating snippets of everyday New York urbanity.

Profile Image
Monika Fabian

WNYC is funded by sponsors and member donations

Top Stories

Goodbye, WQXR's Jeff Spurgeon

The Brian Lehrer Show |

Crown Heights residents fume over new barricades ahead of West Indian Day parade

Residents also say elderly and disabled neighbors can’t be dropped off near their front doors and they’re fearful emergency responders can’t easily access apartment buildings and fire hydrants.
Gothamist |

Gloria Steinem in Conversation with David Remnick, from 2015

The writer and activist, who died this week, discussed her memoir, the Black Lives Matter movement, and a question for activists: Which comes first, changing hearts or changing laws?
The New Yorker Radio Hour |

60 Words

It’s been 25 years since 9/11. Today we talk about the 60 words that ushered in everything that came after.
Radiolab |
YOU ARE ONLINE