Paul Motian

The Ten Best Jazz Shows in NYC This Month

These are the 10 best jazz shows in New York this month.

Russ Lossing

Live: Craig Taborn Takes Control At The Village Vanguard

Craig Taborn Trio Village Vanguard Thursday, April 5 Better than: Any live music I've heard this year so far. "I'm not one for much discourse while I'm up here," said Craig Taborn, addressing the crowd briefly before he sat down at the piano last night. He was smiling politely, offering some reass ... More >>

Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, and Joey Baron

CHILL OUT

The Winter JazzFest gets even better

Up-and-Coming Players from 2011, the Year of the Tenor

People Who Died 2011: The Year In Obituaries

Amy Winehouse passed away on July 23. ​In memory of the people, places, and things that passed away in 2011, here's a collection of links and streaming-video artifacts.

Paul Motian, R.I.P.

Jazz lost an icon, and the New York City scene a fixture, last week, when drummer Paul Motian died from complications with myelodysplastic syndrome, a blood and bone marrow disorder. Motian's career stretched back over six decades, but his name had been inextricably linked with the famed haunt the ... More >>

Kris Davis Trio

Jerome Sabbagh Trio

Jazz Consumer Guide: Pure Joy and Hard Work

Saxophonists get up to mischief (and engage in a little drama)

Dan Tepfer & Paul Motian

Joel Harrison String Choir

Jason Moran Tops Himself

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

The 2010 Voice Jazz Critics' Poll: The Results

Joel Harrison Septet

Mark Turner

Enrico Pieranunzi

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

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 >>

Less Is More for Paul Motian

But sometimes more works, too

Live: Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, and Paul Motian at the Blue Note

Frisell doing "Shenandoah." Totally badass. Bill Frisell/Ron Carter/Paul Motian Blue Note Wednesday, January 7 Second show I've been to in 24 hours that prominently featured "You Are My Sunshine"; no offense to Glasvegas, but declarations of love are generally more appealing when they're sweetly, ... More >>

Jazz Consumer Guide: Festival Visions

William Parker's New York festival pays dividends for record buyers everywhere

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

Interview: Jazz Guitarist Bill Frisell

Enough Is Enough

At two prominent jazz festivals, bright moments and cloudy forecasts

Chiri Biri Bim, Chiri Biri Bop

The Israel–New York pipeline yields a fresh crop of serious jazz talent

'Voice' Jazz Poll Critics' Ballots

First Annual Jazz Poll Winners

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

Fractious Grammar

More fun with freshly revived old masters and wily young students

Geri Allen Meets Her Match and Channels Her

To Serve and Protect: A Freestyle Series Rumbles On

Fungible Insights

Jazz on the fringe, even when it hopes to end up in the middle

Motian in Poetry

Dummer's group exploits sonic possibilities, sets off storm of sound

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

Covering Expenses

A who, what, why, where, when—and how many—of the uncharted world of independent jazz labels

Jazz Top Ten 2004: And Now Stories, Concerts, and American Songs

The Caribbean Tinge

Thoughtful, passionate jazz musicians feel around a big world, and an old one as well

Music

Well Strung: Carter's Musical Present Tied Up With a Bow

Listings

2003 JVC Jazz Festival

Jazz

Same Ol’ Blues

Jazz Mainstreams Into Fall

Heavy Duty

Jazz Mainstays Boost The Voltage

The Wizard from Algiers

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

Old Guys Yes, Retro Never