The Issa Iyer Gibbs Coalition / Fatboi Sharif (Melvin Gibbs: How Black Music Took Over theMARKET HOTEL // 1140 Myrtle Ave, Brooklyn, NYC, NY
About This Event
At Market Hotel the Issa Iyer Gibbs Coalition shares a bill with Fatboi Sharif and veteran bassist Melvin Gibbs. Fatboi Sharif works at the edges of rock and pop with an experimental hip‑hop footprint and live focus on compression and tonal friction; Gibbs brings close to 200 album credits across jazz, rock and experimental projects including Ronald Shannon Jackson, Sonny Sharrock, Rollins Band, Harriet Tubman and Body Meπa.
About How Black Music Took Over
“How Black Music Took Over” lands at Market Hotel with the Issa Iyer Gibbs Coalition sharing the night with Fatboi Sharif and bassist Melvin Gibbs. The program frames Black music as a living method, moving between rock/pop structures, experimental hip-hop pressure, and improvisational practice. Gibbs brings decades of New York sessions and nearly 200 recorded credits, a local history that shadows the set. One clear takeaway is how the music treats genre less as identity than as raw material under stress.
About the Artists
The Issa Iyer Gibbs Coalition / Fatboi Sharif (Melvin Gibbs: How Black Music Took Over theMARKET HOTEL // 1140 Myrtle Ave, Brooklyn, NYC, NY
The Issa Iyer Gibbs Coalition is a New York–facing collaboration that brings guitarist Issa Iyer together with bassist and bandleader Melvin Gibbs, whose long career spans rock, jazz, and experimental music with extensive studio and stage work.
Issa Iyer
Issa Iyer is a New York City–based rock/pop artist whose work often sits close to the edges of genre. At Brooklyn’s Market Hotel, Iyer has appeared in collaborative settings, including bills with The Issa Iyer Gibbs Coalition alongside veteran bassist Melvin Gibbs and Fatboi Sharif.
Melvin Gibbs
Melvin Gibbs is a bassist whose career moves between jazz, rock, and the city’s experimental scenes, with a discography that stretches across nearly 200 recordings. He has worked in jazz contexts with Ronald Shannon Jackson and Sonny Sharrock, and in rock settings with Rollins Band and Arto Lindsay.
The Issa Iyer Gibbs Coalition
The Issa Iyer Gibbs Coalition is a rock/pop group heard in New York City rooms like Market Hotel, where they’ve shared bills with artists including Fatboi Sharif and veteran bassist Melvin Gibbs. Their work sits in a hybrid space, borrowing rock structure while keeping an ear on hip‑hop’s studio logic and live sound pressure.
Fatboi Sharif
Fatboi Sharif is an individual artist working at the edges of rock and pop, with a recorded footprint that Spotify tags as experimental hip hop. Based in the New York City circuit, he appears at rooms like Elsewhere, including bills such as “Swing Kids (10 Years of the Chain) w/ Fatboi Sharif, Trace Amount & More.