Bud Powell

The Ten Best Jazz Shows in NYC This Month

These are the 10 best jazz shows in NYC this week.

Ten (More) Jazz Albums to Hear Before You Die

By Matthew Kassel and Alex W. Rodriguez Yesterday's much celebrated "Ten Jazz Albums to Hear Before You Die" post was a starter course, an easily digestible, rudimentary entry into the storied genre that not one person on the planet disagreed with. But today, we go further. Because for every Blue T ... More >>

Luis Perdomo

Q&A: Philip Glass On Black Music And African-American History

Every day this month, in conjunction with our Feb. 1 cover story "Philip Glass, An East Village Voice," Sound of the City will post excepts of interviews with Glass and his collaborators, as well as reviews of several concerts celebrating his 75th birthday. Today we're publishing the portion of our ... More >>

'Chick Corea, Eddie Gomez, Paul Motian: Further Explorations of Bill Evans'

Jazz Consumer Guide: Adapt, Improvise, Party

A cross-section of young/old and avant/traditional gets drunk on everything

Vijay Iyer Tops the Fourth Annual Village Voice Jazz Poll

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

Clip Job: LeRoi Jones, Art D'Lugoff and Nat Hentoff Duke it Out

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesMarch 18, 1965, Vol. X, No. 22Gig at Gate: Return of the White Liberal StompersBy Jack NewfieldGoateed, immaculately dressed Negroes looking for a pogrom, carefully coifed Hadassah ladies looking for a lynching and impassive hipsters looking f ... More >>

2008 Jazz Poll Ballots: P-Z

Clip Job: The Menace of Folk Music

Heartfelt Songs From the Unsung

A radio promo man's latest small label brings out the best in two overlooked veterans

Get Used to It

Trygve Seim and bandmates expand upon what by now is ECM's own jazz tradition

Odd Tangents

Some Parkers, some Brötzmanns, some Atavistics, and two good mainstream sax CDs

Updates, Not Throwbacks

Gypsies and Jews, Afro-Cubans and avant-gardists, led by two smashing piano players

Not Against Interpretation

Jimi Hendrix, meet Leonard Bernstein: Two equally recondite sources of jazz repertoire

Give the Drummers Some

Roy Haynes and Max Roach Master Time

Continuing Education

Marian McPartland Accrues Style Bit by Bit

Post-War Jazz: An Arbitrary Road Map

Post-War Jazz: An Arbitrary Road Map

Money Jungle Music

Brutality and Revival

The Best Jazz Records of 2001

Master Class

Jimmy Heath Gets His Due

Same Ol’ Blues

Jazz Mainstreams Into Fall

Mood Swings

Tom Harrell Samples the Bitter With the Better

Impolite Discourse

The Noise Boys Ride Again

The Wizard from Algiers

Martial Solal—One of the World's Great Piano Virtuosos Deserves More Props in America

Good Vibrations

Blue Note Promotes Rookie to Majors

Recent Films From Germany

Beale Street Talks