Tim Berne

The Best Jazz Shows in NYC This Month

These are the best jazz shows in NYC this month.

'A Tribute to Paul Motian'

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 2/15/13

Here are the 10 best concerts around the city this weekend, in no particular order.

Endangered Blood

All That Brooklyn Jazz

The borough is where it's at

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 >>

Ches Smith and These Arches

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 >>

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 >>

Son of Goldfinger

Matt Mitchell

John Hebert's Sounds of Love

John Zorn & Tyshawn Sorey

Jason Moran Tops Himself

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

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Michael Formanek

VILLAGE VARIETY

We jazz June, we thrive soon

Full Undead Jazzfest Lineup Announced, Dismayingly Short On Actual Zombies

Roswell Rudd has my favorite of the snapshots collected here​Early January's Winter Jazzfest, a two-night, multi-venue fete that lured thousands of folks into Greenwich Village to see dozens of downtown-jazz stalwarts (Voice poll darlings Vijay Iyer and Darcy James Argue were among the star at ... More >>

Bad Lucid+Four Limones

Los Totopos

'New Languages Festival'

The BBC

Jazz Consumer Guide: Chasing Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, or Something Else Entirely

Jazz Consumer Guide: Festival Visions

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

Skronk On

A down year still yields plenty of power and exhilaration for adventurous jazzheads

2007 Jazz Poll Ballots: P-Z

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

To Serve and Protect: A Freestyle Series Rumbles On

Fractious Solidarity for Trouble Times

Balance and teamwork from individualists the record business considers totally impractical

Third Annual Trumpet Smorgasbord Starts With a Salute

Covering Expenses

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

Post-Bop Shopping

For fans in general and collectors in particular, a crucial social locus enters the virtual age

Jazz Summer 2005

Jazz

Updates, Not Throwbacks

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

Blue Shift

Collaging keyboardist meets the challenge of jazz-improv with techno surge protectors

2003 JVC Jazz Festival

Music

Best Jazz CDs of 2002

Everything That Rises Must Converge

Money Jungle Music

Sound Checks

Your Choices Guide to Four Nights of CMJ Music

Listings

Knitting at Home

Music

Scores To Settle

Jazz Listings

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