How Black Music Took Over New York Performances

“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.