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2010 Stories by Richard Gehr

• The Klezmatics+Good for the Jews+Joshua Nelson

  published December 29, 2010

  History and culture, solidarity and rebellion--the Klezmatics embody all these things and throw a great dance party to boot. They headline the... More >>

• 'Brooklyn Qawwali Party'

  published December 29, 2010

  Ye olde multiculturalism, often with a francophone subtext, is second nature at Barbes Records, for whom these acts record. Hence Paris-born,... More >>

• Joe Krown Trio+Khris Royal's Crescent Jam

  published December 29, 2010

  APAP's Export NOLA shows offer the opportunity to experience a night out in New Orleans without buying a plane ticket. Henry Butler's at the... More >>

• Phish

  published December 22, 2010

  It took a year and a half, but in October, Phish 3.0 once again started taking the risks and having the fun that made them, yep, the most... More >>

• 'Tzadik/East Village Jewish Music Festival'

  published December 15, 2010

  Rabbi Greg Wall, the saxophonist and co-leader of Hasidic New Wave with Frank London, has transformed this downtown nerve center of progressive... More >>

• Raz Mesinai Ensemble+Badawi

  published December 15, 2010

  Producer/composer/multi-instrumentalist Raz Mesinai wraps up his December curatorial stint at the Stone with a Boxing Day double bill. It features... More >>

• Paul Winter Consort

  published December 8, 2010

  Some celebrate the season by stumbling drunkenly about town in Santa costumes. Others prefer the Paul Winter Consort's annual pagan-inspired... More >>

• 'Ethel's TruckStop: Themba'

  published December 8, 2010

  The free-wheeling string quartet hooks up with South African singers for the latest installment of their ongoing TruckStop series. Ethel's 2008... More >>

• Miniboone

  published December 8, 2010

  "You laugh, you cry/Everybody has to die," rails the chorus of "Devil in Your Eyes," and rarely has a bad trip's existential tumult been conveyed... More >>

• David 'Fuze' Fiuczynski

  published December 1, 2010

  Loony-tunes guitar acrobat Fiuczynski and wild-style keyboardist John Medeski revisit their 1994 fusion fantasia Lunar Crush. Also on hand... More >>

• Joe Satriani+Ned Evett+Triple DoubleSatriani

  published December 1, 2010

  Satriani has made a career out of simultaneously satisfying both guitar geeks and headbangers, and his recent Black Swans and Wormhole... More >>

• Blind Boys of Alabama

  published December 1, 2010

  Has the shopping season gotten you down yet? Formed more than 70 years ago by an earlier generation of sight-impaired Alabamans, and currently led... More >>

• INK TANK

  published November 24, 2010

  Last fall’s inaugural Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival transcended freezing rain and a steamy Williamsburg church basement to... More >>

• Todd Rundgren

  published November 24, 2010

  Wizard, true star, shoulda-been teen idol, psychedelic prog-rocker, covers master, hits producer, blue-eyed soul man, analog guitar hero, online... More >>

• Robert Fripp

  published November 24, 2010

  King Crimson's leader-guitarist conceived Soundscapes in the mid-90's as a digital update of Frippertronics, which used... More >>

• 'Works by Karlheinz Stockhausen'

  published November 24, 2010

  Issue Project Room's swinging series devoted to Darmstadt School icons continues with early (and seldom-heard) electronic and improvisational... More >>

• Osmany Paredes Quartet

  published November 17, 2010

  The Zinc's "New Dimensions in Latin Jazz" series continues with this Havana-born pianist. Trained first by his father, the conga player Guillermo... More >>

• 'George Harrison's All Things Must Pass 40th Anniversary Benefit Concert'

  published November 17, 2010

  Brooklyn's Universal Thump (Greta Gertler and Adam D. Gold) marks the 40th birthday of rock's first triple (vinyl) album, and the best selling... More >>

• Maria Schneider Orchestra

  published November 17, 2010

  The visionary bandleader turns 50 during the course of her annual Thanksgiving run. Schneider's music has long sounded "orchestral," and she... More >>

• Dan Hicks & the Hot Licks

  published November 17, 2010

  A crafty, sarcastic nostalgist, Dan Hicks is to music what R. Crumb is to comics. Forged in the same Haight-Ashbury acid crucible, Hicks has... More >>

• Pedro Giraudo Sextet

  published November 10, 2010

  With Carla Bley and Duke Ellington as root influences, Argentinean bassist-composer Pedro Giraudo's music combines high-concept swing with subtly... More >>

• Juan-Carlos Formell & Johnny's Dream Club

  published November 10, 2010

  Cuban cultural blocades come and go, depending on the political weather, but expatriate wonder Juan-Carlos Formell's music abides. The dazzling... More >>

• Jim Kweskin & Geoff Muldaur

  published November 3, 2010

  The hugely influential Jim Kweskin Jug Band, of which Muldaur was an original member, was the missing link between old-time jazz, blues, country,... More >>

• Ghazal Ensemble

  published November 3, 2010

  Shujaat Husain Khan, a classically trained sitarist who has also collaborated with club whiz Karsh Kale, and Tehran-born Kayhan Kalhor, a... More >>

• Luisa Maita

  published October 27, 2010

  This attractive young Brazilian singer's Benetton-ready bona fides include Euro-Jewish and Syrian-Muslim parents, a childhood split between Rio de... More >>