Grind
Q: Is a piece written for six coffee grinders serious music? A: Only if you want it to be. (Pictured: Jeppe Just Christensen, performing "Ground")
White Man Sleeps
Kevin Volans' minimalist, dancing piece for string quartet may have been made famous by Kronos and their 1990 recording, but the UK's Smith Quartet (pictured) have been performing it for
Bill
For all the times I could have caught guitarist Bill Frisell – at Barbes, at jazz festivals and top-tier jazz clubs around town – I'm kind of glad my first
Home Show
Home shows are a fairly common practice in New York, where musicians (mainly classical) play small, private concerts in the homes of wealthy patrons, who pay a pretty penny for
Toronto In Tow
After last weekend's Over The Top fest, I thought I'd had enough of Toronto bands, but when I heard the Rural Alberta Advantage were playing Mercury Lounge tonight, it sounded
Discovered
Galapagos seems to have become the latest locus for new and interesting music in New York, thanks in no small part to New Amsterdam's Undiscovered Islands weekly, which wrapped up
Detour
A funny thing happened on my way to see Missy Mizzoli's chamber opera "Song From The Uproar" tonight in DUMBO. Across the street from Galapagos, an art book publisher, Powerhouse