Email Author Richard Gehr

2013 Stories by Richard Gehr

• Vijay Iyer Trio

  published January 16, 2013

  The pianist's Accelerando topped this year's Rhapsody Jazz Critics Poll. Like 2009's Historicity, it's another fine blend of jazz... More >>

• UNITED NATIONS

  published January 9, 2013

  The world’s most compact festival of international music earned a stage at Bonnaroo last summer. But Globalfest is best enjoyed on its... More >>

• FEMME FATALE

  published January 9, 2013

  The influence of singer and Warhol superstar Nico, who would have turned 75 this year, persists in goth culture as well as in older adherents of... More >>

• Keith Rowe

  published January 9, 2013

  A founding member of enormously influential free-improvising Brit collective AMM, Rowe abandoned jazz guitar in the '60s for a radical style all... More >>

• Umphrey's McGee

  published January 9, 2013

  Impeccable chops, ninja-moves tunes, sexy-time dance grooves, X-factor surprises, classic-rawk grandeur, and a refreshing sense of humor make this... More >>

• Sun Araw+Ital+M. Geddes Geddes

  published January 9, 2013

  With a guitar sound somewhere between Neil Young's bucolic yawp and Manuel Göttsching's minimalist mysteries, Los Angeles experimentalist... More >>

• The Whammies

  published January 9, 2013

  An international quintet dedicated to the music of Steve Lacy, the Whammies boast a direct connection to the late saxophonist-composer through his... More >>

• Banda Sinaloense de los Muertos

  published January 2, 2013

  You'll find several of the city's edgier slipstream jazzers—saxophonist Oscar Noriega, trombonist Curtis Hasselbring, and drummer Jim... More >>

• Uri Caine

  published January 2, 2013

  It's been a little more than a decade since the ebullient Philadelphia-raised pianist released Solitaire, his first solo album. Its dense... More >>

• Egyptian Arias

  published January 2, 2013

  The Middle East’s slow drive toward something like enlightenment is at the core of Mohammed Fairouz’s 2009 opera Sumeida’s Song,... More >>

• Debo Band

  published January 2, 2013

  With its rolling grooves, heavy arrangements, funky horn sections, and sophisticated singers, Ethiopian pop music's so-called golden age (1969-74)... More >>