Open Source Gallery

This week's Open Sound Concert features The Lily White Quintet - join us on Wednesday (7/8) at 7pm!

“Saxophonist and composer Lily White has played Afro-Cuban jazz with Mario Bauza, soul jazz with Jimmy McGriff, avant-garde jazz with Anthony Braxton, and funky New Orleans jazz with the Swunky Z Brass Band. Her latest Quintet is the classic lineup of jazz’s great modernist period—trumpet, tenor, piano, bass and drums, the minimal yet versatile configuration that served both the straight-ahead Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet and the venturesome second quintet of Miles Davis, with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams. This dream band, with Rob Garcia on the drums, David Smith on the trumpet, Bennett Paster on the piano and Jim Whitney on bass takes the tradition and transports it to the 21st century. White’s timbre on the horn can be warm or dry or growly as the moment demands, and she has an encyclopedic command of the saxophone’s resources. In her every solo, you can hear her thinking, and feel her feeling.”–David Gates

Lily White: Tenor Saxophone
Rob Garcia: Drums
Bennett Paster: Piano
David Smith: Trumpet
Jim Whitney: Bass

Learn more and RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/open-sound-the-lily-white-quintet-tickets-1991721906839

Everyone is welcome to attend, and donations are appreciated but not required.

Open Sound is a weekly music series taking place on summer Wednesday evenings at 7pm! Typically, these concerts are in front of Open Source Gallery, but we are hosting a special kick-off at the KoKo Lot (440 19th St.) for the first concert of the season! Curated by Lily White, Open Sound features a variety of musicians and genres. These weekly performances attract members of the neighborhood of all ages and backgrounds and dancing is strongly encouraged! View the full lineup at open-source-gallery.org/open-sound-2026-lineup/

When: Wednesday, July 8th, 7PM
Where: Open Source Gallery, 306 17th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215

Now on view at Open Source: IDENTITIES, a project by Hidemi Takagi. Visit during our open hours through July 26, 2026:
Thurs + Fri 4-6pm
Sat + Sun 2-6pm

IDENTITIES is a photography and interview project centering mixed-race teenagers. Takagi builds long term relationships with the teenagers to gather stories that are both visual and verbal, composing complex and whimsically self-costuming portraits of mixed-race life and its public and private faces. Through IDENTITIES, Takagi documents biracial/multiracial people’s roots and the cultural tendrils that have grown and intertwined from them, and addresses the issues of mixed-race identity, racism, and immigration in America and other countries.

Photos by Stefan Hagen

Open Sound starts this Wednesday at 7pm with a special performance by Funk Slope at the KoKo Lot! Everyone is welcome to attend, and donations are appreciated but not required. View the full lineup below, and learn more on our website: open-source-gallery.org/open-sound-2026-lineup/

June 24th: Funk Slope (At the KoKo Lot, NOT Open Source Gallery)
July 1st: The Pressure Kids
July 8th: The Lily White Quintet
July 15th: The Lucky Otters
July 22nd: Akiko Pavolka AND Jeong Lim Yang
August 5th: AMARYLLIS 2
August 12th: Dawn Drake & ZapOte
August 19th: Bennett Paster Group
August 26th: Pam Fleming & Fearless Dreamer
September 2nd: The Diamond Spur Rodeo

Open Sound is a weekly music series taking place on summer Wednesday evenings at 7pm! Typically, these concerts are in front of Open Source Gallery, but we are hosting a special kick-off at the KoKo Lot (440 19th St.) for the first concert of the season! Curated by Lily White, Open Sound features a variety of musicians and genres. These weekly performances attract members of the neighborhood of all ages and backgrounds and dancing is strongly encouraged! View the full lineup at open-source-gallery.org/open-sound-2026-lineup/