Charlie Parker

The 10 Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 8/23/13

For more shows throughout the weekend, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which is updated daily.

Free Will Astrology: May 8-14, 2013

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 3/8/13

Here are the 10 best concerts this weekend, in no particular order.

Paquito D'Rivera

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 >>

The Best Jazz Shows in New York City This Week 10/29

Here's a list of jazz shows happening in the city we think you'll enjoy.

Tenor Uncertainty

A strong crop of releases from tenor saxophonists

Q&A: Watch The Closing Doors Mastermind Kris Needs On Crafting Compilations And New York's Musical History Books

​A veteran English music writer, Kris Needs lived in New York City in the late '80s (he spent two years behind the counter at Bleecker Bob's). It was part of a longstanding fascination with the city that—lucky us—now culminates in Watch the Closing Doors: A History of New York's Mu ... More >>

Is This the Future of the East Village?

​You pass out in the gutter sometime around 11pm to find all your friends have deserted you. You try to get up, bleary-eyed, your face covered with candy wrappers and street scum. As you peel a prophylactic from your face, you look up to see a blindingly bright sign shining right in your blood ... More >>

FLY ON HOME

Charlie Parker’s best tribute

Live: Man Forever, Oneida Drummer Kid Millions' Pulverizing Side Project, Pounds Issue Project Room, Ecstatically

Good lord: The brahs in action a few weeks back. Man Forever Issue Project Room Friday, June 25 Say "drummer's solo project" and conflicting sounds come to mind--Foo Fighters, "Sussudio," Peter Criss, Charlie Watts' Charlie Parker project--with few of them ever meditating exclusively on the drum ... More >>

Your Summer Live-Jazz Cheat Sheet

Options abound for fans of all inclinations and bank accounts

R.I.P. Jazz-Piano Giant Hank Jones, Dead At 91

His extraordinary humility aside, pianist Hank Jones had an extraordinary career: He played with everyone from Ella Fitzgerald to Charlie Parker to Benny Goodman, and after a late-career resurgence in which he finally deigned to bask a bit in the spotlight, he was recording critically lauded album ... More >>

Bird

Color Me Impressed

Beowulf, meet the Replacements! Great books from 2007 you may have missed.

Melody Lingers On

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

All in the Family

Confused teens, confused thirtysomethings, and old jazz guys enjoying their dotage

Jackie McLean 1931–2006

Jazz's choice for mayor of New York from hard bop to avant-garde

New Hope for the Dead

We Got the Beat: On the L.E.S., the Spirit of Ginsberg Lives

Unsuspected Treasure

Dizzy Gillespie flies, Charlie Parker races, Symphony Sid jives, and you are there

Post-Bop Shopping

For fans in general and collectors in particular, a crucial social locus enters the virtual age

Rituals of Getting Acquainted

With the Brit avant-garde, rust-belt saxophone, Braxton standards, Dylan standards

Perfect Worlds: Monkey House

Horn-to-Horn Combat With No Real Casualties, From the Jam-Session Donald Trump

All True, More or Less

A worldwide phenomenon and a transworld music, but usually not both at the same time

So Goodbye Already, but Why d'You Call it Weatherbird Anyway?

Benny Carter, 1907-2003

A Gentleman You Didn't Mess With: The King and His Honors and His Many Revolutions

Listings

Ornette and Others

JVC Bounces Back Right on Schedule

Give the Drummers Some

Roy Haynes and Max Roach Master Time

Savooooy Be Gooood

The Lighter Side of Bebop

Jazz

Mr. Ellington, Meet Mr. Matisse

Alfred Appel Connects the Moderns

Chances Are

Martial Solal Sets the Standard

Black Arthur's Return

Arthur Blythe's Western Wind, Part II

Post-War Jazz: An Arbitrary Road Map

Work for Hire

Sonny Stitt and Bobby Hackett Survive the Marketplace

Master Class

Jimmy Heath Gets His Due

Here's the Melody

John Lewis Keeps on Evolving

Burns-Eye View of Jazz

Living History or Death Sentence?

All the Things He Was

Jazz Makes Peace With Jerome Kern

Everybody's Arranger

Ralph Burns—From Woody Herman to Ray Charles to Bob Fosse

21st Century History

John Hammond’s Best and Brightest

Prisoners of the Past

Phased & Konfused

Moment by Moment

How Jungle Is--and Isn't--the 'New Jazz'

Rousing Rabble

At JATP swing, bebop, and R&B found common ground on the solid rock of 4/4, the aggression offering a raucous alternative to dance as a way of participating

Beale Street Talks