Steven Bernstein

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 >>

Spanish Fly

The Millennial Territory Orchestra

Live: Winter Jazzfest Breaks Down Boundaries And Confounds Expectations

​Winter Jazzfest Friday-Saturday, January 6-7 Better than: Summer Zydeco Fest (assuming such a terror exists). After a discordant, twisted reimagining of Jimi Hendrix's "The Wind Cries Mary" by his trio Ceramic Dog, guitarist Marc Ribot slyly reminded the audience at Sullivan Hall Friday wha ... More >>

The Dred Scott Trio Completes Its Countdown To Armageddon Tonight At Rockwood Music Hall

Aidan LevyThe Dred Scott Trio at Rockwood Music Hall on October 18. ​Midnight closed out October 18, and Dred Scott took to the stage with his trio at the Rockwood, as he has every Tuesday for the past six years. "What is CMJ?" Scott asked the boisterous crowd. "It's the Christian Music Jesus. ... More >>

Q&A: Steven Bernstein On Sly Stone, All-Star Albums, And The Funk Of Late-'70s New York

via StevenBernstein.net​A fixture on Manhattan bandstands since 1979, Steven Bernstein is attached to very old crafts: trumpet, arranging, and jazz that sounds like jazz. His newest album, MTO Plays Sly (Royal Potato Family), opts for the all-star route with vocals, and features Antony Hegerty ... More >>

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey

'Hal Willner's Freedom Rides Project'

I Am Secretly an Important Man: Profile of Underground Bard Jesse Bernstein

Greil Marcus, D.A. Pennebaker, and John Wesley Harding Will All Be At The 14th Street Y on December 5, Talking About Bob Dylan

​Next May will mark Bob Dylan's 70th birthday. Expect an absolute flood of books (we'd be remiss for not mentioning our pal David Yaffe's Bob Dylan: Like a Complete Unknown, which comes out that month), panels, symposiums, tribute shows, and the like. In fact, a bunch of this stuff is already ... More >>

Jazz Consumer Guide: Play Louder, and Pray for Peace

Living legends and budding artistes alike break out, rise up, and move beyond

Interview: Brooklyn Noise Legend J.G. Thirlwell Talks Reviving Steriod Maximus's Ectopia for Celebrate Brooklyn

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Brooklynite J.G. Thirlwell is one of the unlikely highlights of this year's Celebrate Brooklyn series. The industrial living legend and genre-hopping nu-composition hero is lugging his manic 20-piec ... More >>

Live: Galactic (And Doug E. Fresh) Bring New Orleans To Brooklyn Bowl

Intense bass warning. Galactic Brooklyn Bowl Friday, June 4 If this was a scene from Treme, it'd play as farce: real New Orleans dudes playing real New Orleans music... in a snazzy, opulent, achingly hip Brooklyn bowling alley. We'd be mocked as clueless, unappreciative cultural tourists who woul ... More >>

Kamikaze Ground Crew

Jazz Consumer Guide: Loosening (or Tightening) Up

Or slicing, or muscling—anything but letting up, really

Jazz Consumer Guide: A Summer Suite of Harmonic Disorder

Transcending roots and relishing every moment, whether you've got the rhythm section or not

Jazz Consumer Guide: Little Innovations Run the World

Echoes of Basie, Mingus, Tyner, etc., with chops and abstractions all their own

Sonny Rollins Rules the Third Annual Voice Jazz Critics Poll

Finally, the change we need

2008 Voice Jazz Poll Winners

2008 Jazz Poll Ballots: A-O

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

2008 Jazz Poll Ballots: P-Z

Tom Terrell, 1951–2007

Friends and colleagues remember one of the music biz's few universally beloved men

Rufus Wainwright's Release the Stars

An unsubtle symphony of diminishing returns

Tom Hull's Jazz Poll List

Harmolodic Convergence

Ornette Coleman's triumphant return dominates the humble debut of the 'Voice' jazz critics' poll

'Voice' Jazz Poll Critics' Ballots

First Annual Jazz Poll Winners

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

Territorial Imperatives

A party band fluent whether the language is Count Basie, Don Cherry, or 'Darling Nikki'

To Heiress Human

Frothy swindle comedy captures that Lubitsch touch

Second-Term Blues

Avant or retro, unplugged or wired, guerrilla musicians defy the neocon millennium

The Children's Hour

The fight for legislation to help young prostitutes

Jazz Summer 2005

Juvenile Injustices

Court change means some kids have less than a snowball's chance of staying out of hell

Cops Talk Dirty to Young Girls

Inside a 'prostitution' case in Family Court

Updates, Not Throwbacks

Gypsies and Jews, Afro-Cubans and avant-gardists, led by two smashing piano players

Knit Picket

Musicians settle with Knitting Factory after protest over backstock, royalties, masters

Gtr

Guitarists Bill Frisell and Charlie Hunter both do their level best to bring jazz up to 1995

Band in My Head

How Mojo, Bitches Brew, and Butch Morris inspired a funktional African American family unit

2003 JVC Jazz Festival

Out of the Territories

Steven Bernstein's Old-Timey Jazz Comes in From the Cold

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