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Jenny Scheinman, Bill Frisell, & Brian Blade

'A Tribute to Paul Motian'

Matt Wilson's Christmas Tree-O

Q&A: Tim Berne On Big Satan, Playing with Nels Cline, How The Internet Fucked Up The Music Business, And Not Being Part of The "Downtown Jazz Scene"

Saxophone giant Tim Berne is one forward-thinking renegade who started altering the landscape of jazz in the mid-1970s by wielding his horn and, in a show of then-unheard of DIY vision, launched his own record label. A late bloomer, Berne didn't pick up a sax until his very late teens but upon his ... More >>

Live: Jenny Scheinman Warms Up The Village Vanguard

Jenny Scheinman Quartet Village Vanguard Friday, August 31 Better than: Music that keeps you at a distance. During her early set at the Village Vanguard on Friday, violinist Jenny Scheinman pulled out just one cover, Duke Ellington's "Awful Sad." It's not hard to see why she's fond of that particu ... More >>

Live: Enfants Terribles Push And Pull At The Blue Note

Enfants Terribles with Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell, Gary Peacock and Joey Baron Blue Note Thursday, August 16 Better than: The terrible twos. The word's out in jazz about the cache of collectives with band names as opposed to ensembles named for or operated by a catalyst instrumentalist or leader. La ... More >>

Enfants Terrible

MOVIN' ON

St. Ann's Warehouse throws itself 
a big farewell party

Bill Frisell & Sam Amidon

Jenny Scheinman's String Theories

The violinist takes a singularly dualistic approach to music

Jenny Scheinman's Mischief and Mayhem

Jenny Scheinman, Bill Frisell, and Brian Blade

Lee Konitz Quintet

Jeremy Udden's Plainville

In Praise of Bill Frisell, Nels Cline, and the Graceful Despair of Marc Ribot

This Week's Voice: AraabMuzik, My Chemical Romance, Orange Juice, Bill Frisell, Marc Ribot, and More

My Chemical Romance go . . . Styx. Photo by Neil Krug.​In this week's Village Voice, Brandon Soderberg profiles the 21-year-old rap producer AraabMuzik, Christopher R. Weingarten is not impressed with the new record from My Chemical Romance, Francis Davis praises new efforts from Bill Frisell, ... More >>

Joey Baron & Bill Frisell

Jazz Consumer Guide: Mocking Traditions, or Joining Them

Plus suave elegance, raw non-beauty, and other works-in-progress

What's Old Is New, Or Something: Swans, Christian Marclay Return to New York City

​Michael Gira's legendary noise punk crew Swans announced their reunion back in January, and with guitarist Norman Westberg on board (no Jarboe, alas), Gira seemed to be promising the return of the ferocious, '80s vintage of his band, rather than gothy, whispery, horror-house '90s version. Thi ... More >>

Less Is More for Paul Motian

But sometimes more works, too

2009 Voice Jazz Critics' Poll: The Results

Album of the year, reissue of the year, best debut, and more

2009 Jazz Poll: Tom Hull's Alternate, Unsettled Top 10

Great jazz records we caught, with apologies to those we missed

Vijay Iyer Tops the Fourth Annual Village Voice Jazz Poll

Historicity and records from other fresh faces take our 2009 jazz poll

Advance Stream: Richard Hell's Somewhat Bizarre, Thoroughly Excellent Destiny Street Repaired

​So here's a strange thing: Next month Insound will release a revamped, partially rerecorded version of Richard Hell and the Voidoids jovially jagged 1982 NYC punk classic Destiny Street, with Robert Quine's original rhythm-guitar tracks overlayed with all-new vocals by Hell and stupendously o ... More >>

Live: Zoning Out With Tortoise at the Bang on a Can Marathon

Ignore the song titles. CREDIT. The Bang on a Can Marathon World Financial Center Winter Garden Sunday, May 31 Verily, this fest has scaled back somewhat in recent years -- consider 2007's fairly insane 26-hour affair, wherein I emerged, groggy and disoriented, from the Winter Garden at around 4:3 ... More >>

Jazz Consumer Guide: Chasing Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, or Something Else Entirely

Ron Miles Quartet

SONIC BOON

Catch 12 nonstop hours of new music

Rudy Royston 303 Sextet

BIG KISS

A pretty fiddler with the elegance of Lucinda

2008 Jazz Poll Ballots: P-Z

IN WITH THE NEW

Two downtown musicians open a downtown club

EARS WIDE OPEN

So much jazz, so little time

Jenny Scheinman's Crossing the Field

Local luminary explores America, high and low

Interview: Jazz Guitarist Bill Frisell

Melody Lingers On

Mastering Dylan, flubbing Darin, and paying tribute to the inimitable Max Roach

'Voice' Jazz Poll Critics' Ballots

2006 Jazz Supplement Listings

Outdoor Concerts & Music Festivals

To Serve and Protect: A Freestyle Series Rumbles On

Piano Standard to Piano Striver

Just 10 really good jazz albums in a year that had more than its share of them

New Hope for the Dead

Democracy Now

Charlie Haden, Carla Bley, and a band that looks almost like America take back the flag

Jazz Summer 2005

Gtr

Guitarists Bill Frisell and Charlie Hunter both do their level best to bring jazz up to 1995

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