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Jazz Maestro

Six weeks ago, I was introduced to the art of "conduction" by Greg Tate’s Burnt Sugar, where Tate waved his arms around to indicate highs and lows, fasts and slows […]

Visual Music

I didn’t really know much about Japanese rock outfit Cornelius before going to see them Webster Hall last night, other than they performed the closing concert at LA’s Concrete Frequency

After Hours

While concert halls were my main musical haunts in Chicago and LA, there was still plenty of time in the late evening to explore some of each town's more excellent

People’s Jazz

Still catching up on posts from this past week, but couldn’t let the night pass without a call-out to Brad Mehldau’s set tonight at the People’s Symphony. On a stage

Road Trip

Tomorrow, I fly out for a week-long holiday that will bring me to Chicago and Los Angeles for various excellent musical happenings. Tomorrow, I’ll get my first look at John

I Hate Top 10 Lists

‘Tis the season for the obligatory Top 10 lists, in which critics make an unwise attempt to comb through a full year’s worth of events to come up with their

Burnt Sugar

On Thursday night, part of a weirdly short stretch of work this week, I ventured out to Zebulon: a friendly Francophile boite on a fast-developing stretch of Williamsburg between Grand

Other Holiday Music

New York is not lacking for live holiday music: you can find performances of Handel’s Messiah or Bach’s Brandenburg Concerti nearly everywhere you turn. But, there are other holiday musical

Bowery Big Band

You don’t expect composer-bandleaders to show up for gigs wearing brown hoodies and jeans, but that’s how Darcy James Argue showed up Sunday night at the Bowery Poetry Club to

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