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This Week In The Voice: The 10 Best Concerts Of 2011; Tenor Saxophonists Ascend

​In this week's Village Voice, on newsstands now: I pick my 10 favorite concerts of 2011 (Patrick Stump (above), PJ Harvey, and tUnE-yArDs all make the short list); and Francis Davis runs down recent standout releases by tenor saxophonists.

This Week in the Voice: The Year in Film, 10 Best Live Shows

​This week in the Voice, out today: our new Year in Film poll along with criticism from J. Hoberman, Karina Longworth, and others. Winner of Best Film: The Tree of Life. Winner of Worst Film: I Melt With You. Maura Johnston rates the 10 best live shows she saw this year, including Beyoncé, ... More >>

This Week In The Voice: A Wealth Of Tenor Sax Talent, And What Your Facebook Page Says About Your Music Taste

This week in the Village Voice, out and in a red box near you as of now: Francis Davis takes a look at the strong crop of recent releases by tenor saxophonists, including two projects starring James Carter (left); and I talk about Facebook's integration with streaming-music services and the concept ... More >>

This Week In The Voice: Get Ready For 4Knots, Plus A Lost Jazz Classic And Two Hot Local Labels

​In this week's Village Voice, out now now now: We preview this weekend's 4Knots Music Festival with my argument why the New York metropolitan area doesn't need its own Coachella, Michaelangelo Matos's profile of Eleanor Friedberger, and Michael Tedder's chat with the Black Angels' Alex Maas; ... More >>

Please Accept Our Apology About The Egregious Photo-Related Error In This Week's Issue

​Thanks to some not-very-eagle-eyed photo editing on the part of your normally much-more-reliable music editor, this week's Voice has the wrong photo accompanying Francis Davis' report on Bill Dixon's recently reissued Intents and Purposes—the image alongside the piece in the print editi ... More >>

This Week In The Voice: The Economics Of Jazz, Dog Eat Dog, And Ellen Willis

​In this week's Village Voice, available online and in a box near you (if you live in New York) today: Francis Davis discusses new economy- and ear-stimulating works from multi-reedist Steven Lugerner and saxophonist Matana Roberts; Andy Beta unearths the catalog of Dog Eat Dog (pictured), a N ... More >>

Jason Moran Tops Himself

The adventurous Ten headlines the Voice's Fifth Annual Jazz Critics' Poll

This Week's Voice: The Fifth Annual Village Voice Jazz Critics' Poll, Jason Moran, Those We Lost This Year, and More

Jason Moran, the hands-down champ. Photo by Clay Patrick McBride.​In this week's Village Voice, Francis Davis on Jason Moran, winner of the Voice's Fifth Annual Jazz Critics' Poll, Tom Hull on the state of the genre in 2010, the results, and a salute to the year's fallen, with a few we failed ... More >>

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 >>

This Week's Voice: Ahmad Jamal, Linkin Park, Frankie Rose, and More

Linkin Park, favorably compared to Radiohead by Christopher R. Weingarten.​In this week's Village Voice, Francis Davis weighs in on the new eight-CD box set honoring jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal, Christopher R. Weingarten compares Linkin Park's new A Thousand Suns to Radiohead's OK Computer, and C ... More >>

Download Jazz Vocalist Theo Bleckmann's Covers Of "Running Up That Hill" And "Hello Earth"; See Him Further Channel Kate Bush At Le Poisson Rouge Tonight

Hopefully he'll bring some of his toys. Pic by John Rogers.​"Is this a sound being made by a human being, a musical instrument, the weather, a mountain? Am I somebody singing fully out or very intimately? Why am I doing this, at this precise moment?" Thus did local jazz/classical/avant-garde s ... More >>

This Week in the Voice: Subprime Candidate - Inside Rick Lazio's Biggest Wall Street Deals

​In 2007, current New York gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio was a JPMorgan Chase executive, one who sent emails like all the other JPMorgan executives. The difference, though? Some of Lazio's emails -- which the Village Voice has now obtained and published -- show the details of just how inv ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Camu Tao, Keith Jarrett and Cecil Taylor, Bruno Mars, Justin Bieber, and More

Camu Tao: Doing good, even if he's not here to see it. Photo by TONE.​In this week's Village Voice, Phillip Mlynar remembers the departed underground rapper Camu Tao, Francis Davis reviews spectacular new works from Keith Jarrett and Cecil Taylor, Mikael Wood hangs with Bruno Mars out in Los A ... More >>

Abbey Lincoln, 1930-2010

Jazz singer, actress, and Civil Rights icon Abbey Lincoln died Saturday in Manhattan. She was 80. In tribute we asked resident Voice jazz critic Francis Davis to say a few words: His thoughts are below.

This Week in the Voice: The Queer Issue, Featuring Jersey Shore's Guidos

​We at the Village Voice fly all variations of flags -- patriotic, pirate, freak, or otherwise -- day in, day out as routine business around here. But this week, we're loud and proud of a very specific color (or colors), as that special time of year is here again: The Queer Issue has arrived. ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Laurie Anderson, Devo, Theo Bleckmann, Omar Souleyman, and Ahem, "Jersey Shore"

Carrie SchechterIf you think I could possibly resist using this cover, you're wrong ​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla interview Laurie Anderson, Francis Davis visits the Murray Hill apartment of jazz vocalist Theo Bleckmann, Richard Gehr basks in the sheer urgency of the polarizing 'Syr ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Summer Guide!

​In this week's Village Voice, we present our annual summer guide, featuring all sorts of seasonal picks for music, film, art, dance, theater, food, etc., not to mention Mikael Wood on the club-pop reboot of Kelis, Ben Davis on Lightning Bolt's Brian Chippendale, Jed Lipinski on Pulitzer winne ... More >>

This Week in the Voice: The 2010 Summer Guide

​As you emerge from the schvitzy oven that is New York's subway system today, indulge in that new heat and sunshine with the help of the Voice's special pull-out 2010 Summer Guide. Keep yourself busy above ground during the three-month sweat-stained shitshow that is a summer in New York City, ... More >>

This Week's Voice: MGMT, Paul Motian, Here Lies Love, Fassbinder's World on a Wire, and More

MGMT. You're wearing two different socks, dude. Photo by Josh Cheuse​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla on the gleeful self-sabotage of MGMT, Francis Davis looks back on the work of jazz's Paul Motian, and Theon Weber reviews David Byrne and Fatboy Slim's Here Lies Love tribute to Imel ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

​Eek, it 's Michael Musto, in a series of glamorous guises (we're not showing his Susan Boyle because we want you to prepare yourself first) and Running Down the Decade like it's never been run down before. (He also gets in not one, but three Top Tens. What a trouper!) Francis Davis presi ... More >>

This Week's Voice: The Fourth Annual Village Voice Jazz Poll, Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon, Gabriel Orozco, and More

Vijay Iyer: Delightful deconstruction. Photo by Jimmy Katz/ACT​In this week's Village Voice, we present the fourth annual Village Voice Jazz Poll: Francis Davis on the winners, led by Vijay Iyer's Historicity and Darcy James Argue's victory as best debut, for Infernal Machines; Tom Hull's own ... More >>

Vijay Iyer Tops the Fourth Annual Village Voice Jazz Poll

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

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2008 Jazz Poll Ballots: A-O

New releases, reissues, debuts, and more—each critic's picks

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In This Week's Village Voice

Everyone likes lists, and everyone likes movies, so every year we poll the nation's critics and give the old Pazz & Jop treatment to the films of the year. In our Ninth Annual Film Poll we have our first cartoon #1, and it ain't The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie. But really, e ... More >>

2007 Jazz Poll Ballots: A-O

New releases, reissues, debuts, and more—each critic's picks

The 2007 Jazz Poll

This year's finisher's

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Enough Is Enough

At two prominent jazz festivals, bright moments and cloudy forecasts

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Free at Last

Avant-jazz titans the David S. Ware Quartet triumphantly disband—sort of

You Can't Compete With Babes

A few unkind words for us with regards to Pazz & Jop's patriarch

'Voice' Jazz Poll Critics' Ballots

First Annual Jazz Poll Winners

From Ornette Coleman to Esperanza Spalding, it's the music you need to hear

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Sun Ra’s Saturnal Sorcery

Long Live Serendipity