Email Author Richard Gehr

2010 Stories by Richard Gehr

• Masters of Persian Music

  published February 16, 2010

  These Iranian cultural treasures exude stately gravitas as they ply their virtuoso chops. Kayhan Kalhor, probably the most familiar to New... More >>

• Kamikaze Ground Crew

  published February 16, 2010

  A Downtown-ish supergroup formed in 1983 to accompany hippie juggling legends the Flying Karamazov Brothers (who happen to be playing the Minetta... More >>

• 'Gala Flamenca'

  published February 9, 2010

  You could sip the tenth annual New York Flamenco Festival slowly over the course of the next 10 days, of course. Or you can catch up-and-coming... More >>

• We Are Plastic Ono Band

  published February 9, 2010

  The voice of the world's richest art-rock mom pierces, keens, tears, yearns, laments, shudders, and coos with childlike wonder on Between My... More >>

• New York Gypsy All-Stars & Husnu Senlendirici

  published February 2, 2010

  Husnu Senlendirici, 33, is arguably the best of Turkey's younger generation of clarinetists, of which Turkey boasts many utterly awesome... More >>

• Yeasayer+Light Asylum+Bobo

  published February 2, 2010

  For Yeasayer, following up an album of smeary tribal rock with an actual relationship-focused pop album (actually, Odd Blood sounds a lot... More >>

• Pat Metheny Welcomes Your Jazz Robot Overlords

  published January 26, 2010

  Who would have figured Pat Metheny for a steampunk? For his latest solo project, Orchestrion (Nonesuch), the intrepid guitarist has... More >>

• LOUD & PROUD

  published January 26, 2010

  When it comes to creation myths, try topping that of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the all-male Zulu a cappella group whose understated (yet... More >>

• Pierre Boulez & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

  published January 26, 2010

  With Boulez, 84, threatening to cut back on guest-conducting assignments, now more than ever is the time to catch classical music's cool modernist... More >>

• Oregon

  published January 26, 2010

  Is a 40th anniversary return to their longtime stomping grounds reason enough to check out an unabashed fusion quartet currently leaning more... More >>

• Tony Green

  published January 26, 2010

  The former Portland, Ore., crime reporter sings straightforward, nonjudgmental, and downright tuneful fact-based songs about homicidal party... More >>

• 'A Night of Haitian Rara'

  published January 26, 2010

  Planned long before the January 12 earthquake, this evening celebrates the richness of Haitian culture, particularly the brash drums and... More >>

• 'Freaks Ball X Presents Anders Osborne & the Black Hollies'

  published January 19, 2010

  Accompanied by drums and sousaphone, fiery New Orleans slide guitarist Anders Osborne has lately been performing as though his life depended on... More >>

• moe.

  published January 19, 2010

  This brainy yet grounded Northeast-based quintet had the outside-guitars-meet-Americana thing down to a fine science years before Nels Cline was a... More >>

• Robbie Fulks & Jenny Scheinman

  published January 19, 2010

  He's a little bit country, she's a little bit jazz—to say the least. A prolific songwriter and idiosyncratic picker, Robbie Fulks burnt a... More >>

• 'Zlatne Uste Golden Festival'

  published January 12, 2010

  If you've always yearned to circle dance the night away to four dozen or so Balkan music groups from hither and yon, step right up. New York's... More >>

• 'Silent Films/Live Guitars with David Bromberg & Marc Ribot'

  published January 12, 2010

  The New York Guitar Festival's four-show series pairs classic silent films with new scores composed and performed by intrepid fretsmen. Folk... More >>

• Charlotte Gainsbourg

  published January 12, 2010

  Somewhere between 1984's "Lemon Incest," which she recorded at age 13 with her father, Serge Gainsbourg, and the even more challenging sexuality... More >>

• JOIN THE JET SET

  published January 5, 2010

  GlobalFEST 2010, the annual Association of Performing Arts Presenters event, crams a world of music onto three stages in full effect all... More >>

• Project/Object

  published January 5, 2010

  Consistently demonstrating equal levels of musical and comedic virtuosity, this particularly tenacious Frank Zappa tribute ensemble returns... More >>