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April 24, 2013Blogs
April 23, 2012Paul Simon and Wynton Marsalis
Rose Theater
Friday, April 20
Better than: Fighting the jazz wars.
"My father was the family bassman," sang Paul Simon on a song from Simon and Garfunkel's last album, a line as true as confessional poetry. Like Paul McCartney and Elvis Costello, Simon grew up as th ... More >>
Voice Choices
April 11, 2012Blogs
October 14, 2011Those Darlins, hangin' out in those giant pipes.The mouse-headed DJ Deadmau5 finally finished his six-night stand at the Roseland Ballroom earlier this week (in one of the week's strangest press releases, I learned that the event was commemorated by a fancy cake that placed his signature head ... More >>
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March 30, 2011Voice Choices
March 23, 2011A genre leader heads a new ensemble
Blogs
March 18, 2011EN Japanese BrasserieEN Japanese Brasserie has written in with further details about the Love for Japan benefit they're holding next Wednesday, March 23.
Music
February 23, 2011Chico O'Farrill never made it back. His music did.
Film
August 25, 2010Voice Choices
August 18, 2010Silence is golden in Marsalis’s Armstrong allegory
Voice Choices
October 13, 2009Lincoln Center presents a trifecta of sensuous swing
Voice Choices
August 4, 2009Patitucci has elegant strings for hire
Blogs
May 13, 2009It's true that the various regional luminaries -- Soulja Slim, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Jelly Roll Morton, Wynton Marsalis, Juvenile -- who appear on The Slow Death of Mr. Go Go Go: A N'Awlins Mixtape (brought to you by the Earl of Edgecombe) do not exactly mesh seamlessly together on the brief, ... More >>
Blogs
February 11, 2009
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Two Men With the Blues with Norah Jones
Rose Theater
February 10
When trumpeter Wynton Marsalis admonishes a member of the audience for only flying a Texas flag but not one from Louisiana, someone yells back "Laissez les Bon Temps Roulet!" bringing a smile to his face ... More >>
Voice Choices
February 11, 2009Blue Note Records reaches a milestone
Voice Choices
January 28, 2009Music
December 31, 2008Music
December 31, 2008Voice Choices
November 12, 2008Monk Festival kicks off tonight
Voice Choices
September 23, 2008Willie Nelson swings through the briar patch
Music
July 9, 2008Two rebels bond over a shared sense of humor
Music
June 19, 2007Some get by with subtlety, but thrashing ferocity works great too
Music
April 10, 2007Hypocrisy and lack of flow defeat Marsalis's attack on "safari seekers" and "thug-life coons"
Music
August 22, 2006Tricky pitches to baffle the bluocracy; "beatable items" to aid the swing
Music
May 2, 2006Touré indulges his writerly ego to insightful effect.
NYC Life
February 28, 2006pazzandjop
January 24, 2006Eclectic neoclassicism versus childhood-oriented avant-primitivism as global warming swamps our history
Music
November 22, 2005Albert Ayler met Paul Gonsalves and Sonny Rollins's saxophone lineage was re-established
Music
February 22, 2005Music
January 18, 2005Two approaches to the dawning problem of expanding jazz repertoire, one of them novel
Dance
November 16, 2004Music
May 25, 2004How Mojo, Bitches Brew, and Butch Morris inspired a funktional African American family unit
Music
May 18, 2004Volume, energy, fire, and the majesty of an African chieftain
Music
May 18, 2004NYC Life
February 24, 2004Music
February 24, 2004They're miles ahead of the competition, and the hip thing should be to dig both of them
News
April 29, 2003Latin Jazz Finally Gets Its Due
NYC Life
April 22, 2003News
March 11, 2003Lincoln Center Thaws Its Cold War on Jazz Activism
Music
January 21, 2003Might Even Be Said to Possess a Mind
News
June 4, 2002NYC Life
May 28, 2002Music
April 9, 2002Hippies, Jazzbos, and Beat Junkies Build One Nation Under a Mutant Groove
Music
January 30, 2001John Lewis Keeps on Evolving
News
January 9, 2001Jazz Competes With Its Past, Settles for the Hard Sell
Specials
November 28, 2000Specials
November 14, 2000News
November 7, 2000Jazz at Lincoln Center Breaks New Ground, but Where Are the Women?
Dance
June 15, 1999Dance
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