Mary Halvorson

?uestlove, Andrew W.K., Kim Gordon More - Masonic Temple - 5/1/13

Better Than: That unimprovised Paisley/Cool J duet. The format, in case you missed the emails, flyers, and Red Bull Music Academy promotional newspapers being handed out around the city, went something like this: One performer took the stage. He or she played for five minutes, at which point anothe ... More >>

Punk-Jazz Scientists Many Arms Tell Us Their Guitar Shredding Secrets

The members in Illadelphia/Astoria punk-jazz trio Many Arms are quite the busy dudes. Ace guitatorrist Nick Millevoi counts two intrepid solo records under his belt, bassist Johnny DiBlase leads his own skronk-heavy Quartet and provides the low end for jazzmongers Zevious while drummer extraordinair ... More >>

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 12/28/12

We're gettin' an early jump on the weekend because you've probably already checked out anyway. So here are the 10 best concerts around the city this weekend, in no particular order. The Ten Best Reissues of 2012 The Ten Best Noise Tracks of 2012 The Ten Best Metal Albums of 2012 The Ten Best Countr ... More >>

Tom Rainey Trio

Saxman Jon Irabagon Goes Metal On Your Ass, Avant Style

New York City saxophone pioneer Jon Irabagon -- award-winning composer, group leader and sideman -- is lounging around on the grimy, sticky couches at West Village jazz 'n' rec hangout Fat Cat, about to blow groovy horn action for swinging bop army Fat Cat Big Band. Irabagon is celebrating the fresh ... More >>

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 >>

ugEXPLODE Musicians Mary Halvorson, Jessica Pavone, Ava Mendoza, Sandy Ewen And Damon Smith On Shredding, New York Vs. The Bay Area, And Houston's Improv and Drinking Scene

This week, the Voice rounded up Weasel Walter's nationwide community of avant-gardist outsiders who both record for his boldly avant-garde label ugEXPLODE and collaborate with the iconoclast-about-town. The names are staggering and represent the most intrepid of musicians working in the experimental ... More >>

Weasel (Walter) Nation

On the daringly avant label ugEXPLODE

Ches Smith and These Arches

Vinny Golia, Max Johnson, and Weasel Walter

Q&A: Ches Smith Of Congs For Brums And These Arches On Playing With Marc Ribot And Drumming In All-Night Vodou Ceremonies

Brooklyn-via-Cali drums heavyweight Ches Smith is a master of percussion, an omnipresent figurehead about town who holds the beats down for the likes of avant-jazz heroes like Marc Ribot, Darius Jones, Trevor Dunn and Mary Halvorson and can also be found pulling all-nighters drumming in Haitian vodo ... More >>

Q&A: Darius Jones On The Man-ish Boy Epic, Being Called "Punk-Jazz," And AUM Fidelity's 15th Anniversary

If ever there was a dude who exudes the air of spiritual illumination while being a total badass, saxophonist figurehead Darius Jones is it. In conversation, the burly alto overlord fuses his devout Southern rearing with New York City crud and attitude, as well as impassioned and bleeding respect fo ... More >>

Spring Guide 2012: Vijay Iyer Brings Accelerando to Birdland

Duke meets Jacko

This Week In The Voice: Madonna Takes MDNA, Feedtime Returns, And Your Guide To The Spring

In this week's Voice: I am generally underwhelmed by MDNA, the new album by Madonna; Brad Cohan talks to the resurgent Aussie pub-rock act feedtime; and Seth Colter Walls previews this spring's best music offerings, including Vijay Iyer, Bruce Springsteen, the Ende Tymes Festival, and Mary Halvorson ... More >>

Tom Rainey Trio

Weasel Walter Trio

Ingrid Laubrock's Anti-House

Download: Weasel Walter's Playful, Punchy Improvised Duet With Mary Halvorson, "Let's Get 'Em"

Andy Newcombe/Flickr​Ever since Weasel Walter relocated to Brooklyn a few years back, no wave's ambidextrous enfant terrible has been almost obnoxiously busy. His countless performances at Death By Audio, Zebulon and Issue Project Room have single-handedly made our loft-punk and freak-jazz sho ... More >>

Sifter+Bizingas

Dissonant Notes at Jazz Festivals

Tensions between promoters and musicians underscore this year's slate

Curtis Hasselbring's New Mellow Edwards+Mike Pride's From Bacteria to Boys

Ches Smith & These Arches

FREE-FALLIN’ JAZZ

This trio moves

Jason Moran Tops Himself

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

The 2010 Voice Jazz Critics' Poll: The Results

Tom Rainey Trio

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

Alternative Guitar Festival

Jason Moran's New Jazz Testament

The crossover-minded pianist's decade-long evolutionary plan continues with Ten

VILLAGE VARIETY

We jazz June, we thrive soon

HALVORSON’S HOUSE

A BK upstart grinds her ax

Jazz Consumer Guide: Adapt, Improvise, Party

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

The Weasel Walter Welcome Wagon

An extremist drummer moves to town to fuck shit up and kick your genitalia off

WARM HEARTHS

The coziest clubs in town present an invigorating fest

'Skirl Party VI'

John Herbert Group

'Ibeam Trombone Festival'

Mary Halvorson Trio

2008 Voice Jazz Poll Winners

2008 Jazz Poll Ballots: A-O

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

2007 Jazz Poll Ballots: A-O

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

'Voice' Jazz Poll Critics' Ballots

Get Born

Brooklyn post-jazzers bring a new label into the world