Tom Rainey

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Week, 1/21/13

Here are the 10 best shows around the city this week, in no particular order.

James Carney Trio

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 >>

Open Loose

Q&A: Okkyung Lee On Playing With Laurie Anderson, Drum Commentary Tracks, And New York's Changing Landscape For Experimental Musicians

​For more than a decade, cellist Okkyung Lee has been an integral figure in New York's experimental music scene. The Korean native moved to Manhattan in 2000 after studying at Boston's Berklee College of Music and quickly became a fixture at venues such as Tonic and the Stone; she played with ... More >>

'Clean Feed's Annual NYC Festival'

2009 Jazz Poll: Tom Hull's Alternate, Unsettled Top 10

Great jazz records we caught, with apologies to those we missed

Tony Malaby's Double Heart

Mario Pavone Quartet

Interview: Nels Cline on Masturbation, Thurston Moore, and Wilco's New Record

"I'm a really big fan of Sonic Youth, and I kind of don't make any bones about it." Jeff Tweedy pulled a rabbit out of his beard when he landed Nels Cline in Wilco following Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Screwing with that album's winning formula by introducing an off-the-wall competing guitarist on its ... More >>

No Training Wheels Necessary

Ferocious homage mingles with daring fusion, looking both back and beyond

Fractious Solidarity for Trouble Times

Balance and teamwork from individualists the record business considers totally impractical

Low Rent

The real possibilities open up when it doesn't cost a bundle to pursue your muse

Jazz Summer 2005

Updates, Not Throwbacks

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

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