Rob Brown

William Parker+Rob Brown+Gerald Cleaver

How Treme Can Get It Right

David Simon's new HBO series uses fiction to honor New Orleans' surreal, heart-breaking fact

The Express Makes a Footnote into a Legend

David Simon's new HBO series uses fiction to honor New Orleans' surreal, heart-breaking fact

Jazz Consumer Guide: Festival Visions

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

Autechre's Quaristice

Gently inscrutable duo explores the Exploding Plastic Unpronounceable

2007 Jazz Poll Ballots: P-Z

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

Enough Is Enough

At two prominent jazz festivals, bright moments and cloudy forecasts

Outdoor Concerts & Music Festivals

At two prominent jazz festivals, bright moments and cloudy forecasts

Odd Tangents

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

Jazz Summer 2005

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

Jazz

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

Music

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

Music

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

Listings

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

Listings

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

Sound Checks

Your Choices Guide to Four Nights of CMJ Music

Listings

Your Choices Guide to Four Nights of CMJ Music

Jazz

In Search of a Cool-Blue Note

Mensch Warmers

In Search of a Cool-Blue Note

Gus Van Sant’s Conventional Wisdom

Sticking to His Hired Guns

Beat and Variation

Sticking to His Hired Guns