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2009 Stories by Richard Gehr

• Pamelia Kurstin

  published October 13, 2009

  Don't expect science-fiction movie scores or Messiaen's greatest hits when this Californian, now living in Vienna, cranks up her Theremin. Kurstin... More >>

• Sonny Landreth+Indigenous

  published October 6, 2009

  Louisiana bluesman Sonny Landreth dominates contemporary slide guitar with a virtuosic style involving "wild" hammers, ghostly voicings, and... More >>

• Mavrothi Kontanis & the Maeandros Ensemble

  published October 6, 2009

  The youngish Greek-American oud player Mavrothi Kontanis and his terrific quintet (featuring Greek clarinet star Lefteris Bournias) breathe new... More >>

• Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey & the Moodswing Orchestra

  published October 6, 2009

  Born in Tulsa and raised up on the road, this adventurous piano trio plus lap steel guitar get alternately scrappy and pastoral on their new EP,... More >>

• Why Tuesday Belongs to Slavic Soul Party

  published September 29, 2009

  "Brass bands are inherently subversive in America," declares Slavic Soul Party bandleader and bass-drummer Matt Moran, between bites of his... More >>

• Bonerama

  published September 29, 2009

  New Orleans brass meets le rock classique in this mighty Crescent City instrumental funk unit fronted by four trombones. Lead 'boner Mark... More >>

• Faust+Cold Cave+Aluk Tolodo

  published September 29, 2009

  The WFMU Fest serves up a history lesson. Original drummer Werner "Zappi" Diermaier and bassist Jean-Herve Peron are joined by former Bad Seed... More >>

• Assembly of Dust

  published September 29, 2009

  With tunes this sturdy and a band that hot, it's hard to imagine anyone not getting behind songwriter Reid Genauer's hand-rolled country rock... More >>

• 'Rhythm of Rajasthan'

  published September 22, 2009

  The fifth New York Gypsy Festival concludes with a performance by this ensemble from northwestern India, birthplace of the Roma people. Their... More >>

• 'The Mandala Concert'

  published September 15, 2009

  Look for circles within circles to delineate a perfect symmetry during this heady collaboration of composer Joel Thome and Harry Doolittle, whose... More >>

• Los Fabulosos Cadillacs

  published September 15, 2009

  After dropping their first album since 1997—a thoroughly rocking pastiche rehash of ska, punk, reggae, afrofunk, and other international... More >>

• 'China Underground: Sounds from the Mongolian Grasslands'

  published September 15, 2009

  Seismic bi-tonal throat singing, twanging jaw harps, two-stringed lutes, and horse-hair fiddling characterize the traditional sounds of Inner... More >>

• John Fogerty

  published September 1, 2009

  The bullhorn-voiced classic swamp rocker's new collection of covers, The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again, reprises Fogerty's 1973 solo... More >>

• CocoRosie

  published September 1, 2009

  Tin Pan Alley, hip-hop, and freak-folk psychedelia blend together in the often precious yet strangely enjoyable music of Paris-based American... More >>

• Robert Glasper Experiment

  published August 25, 2009

  Glasper's Experiment is the versatile keyboardist's hip-hopping yang to his trio's dark and stormy yin. The music progresses in fits and starts,... More >>

• Marta Topferova

  published August 25, 2009

  Although her first album was titled Homage To Homeland: Czech, Moravian & Slovak Folk Songs, this Prague-born, crystalline-voiced singer is... More >>

• Otto+Blind Date

  published August 18, 2009

  Otto—born Otto Maximiliano Pereira de Cordeiro Ferreira—is a riveting performer who has released some of the most adventurous Brazilian... More >>

• Cecil Taylor

  published August 18, 2009

  Having turned 80 in March, the world's preeminent jazz modernist continues to unravel the infinite permutations of his personal vocabulary with... More >>

• 'Stew & Heidi Present the Broadway Problem'+Tanya Tagaq

  published August 18, 2009

  Before their brief yet brilliant moment of Broadway glory with the musical Passing Strange, the Orson Welles of singer-songwriters, Stew,... More >>

• Bonnie Raitt & Taj Mahal

  published August 11, 2009

  The best bits of this al fresco stop on the BonTaj Roulet summer tour should arise whenever the 59-year-old blues-rock queen and the 67-year-old... More >>

• Asphalt Orchestra

  published August 4, 2009

  Tonight marks the debut of Bang on a Can's latest conceit, a choreographed 12-piece marching band. John Philip Sousa's greatest hits are... More >>

• Electric Prunes+Love

  published August 4, 2009

  Unfortunately, former Moby Grape guitarist Jerry Miller dropped out of what's being billed as the "California '66 Review." But with Electric... More >>

• 'John Kelly Sings the Joni Mitchell Songbook'

  published August 4, 2009

  Joni Mitchell wasn't at Woodstock (her manager decided a Dick Cavett TV appearance would be a better career move), but she tearfully penned its... More >>

• Jenny Scheinman's Mischief & Mayhem

  published July 28, 2009

  Leading an impromptu quartet, violinist Jenny Scheinman is comfortable—and often transcendent—playing either deeply inside the bucolic... More >>

• Jimmy Webb

  published July 28, 2009

  Sip from the source of such quintessential American tunesmithing as "MacArthur Park," "Wichita Lineman," "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," and "The... More >>