A Duo With Phantom Contributors
I Heart Lung (via last.fm) A recent I Heart Lung performance is reviewed. I Heart Lung, a guitar-and-drums duo from Southern California, makes music of calm comportment and shadowy effect. Its style...
View ArticleMarc Ribot Plans May Retrospective
Marc Ribot (via last.fm) From (of all places) Billboard: Veteran jazz guitarist Marc Ribot will celebrate his 55th birthday this May with a career-spanning, week-long musical retrospective in New York...
View ArticleAvant Improv in Brooklyn
From Brooklyn’s MonkeyTown: Lou Rossi/Carlos’ Red Shoes/Glass Bees/Frogwell July 14th Monkeytown 58 N3rd Street (Between Whyte and Kent) Williamsburg, Brooklyn, $5 cover. This four-band bill celebrates...
View ArticleJazz Listings from the New York Times
In the NYTimes.com: VIJAY IYER TRIO (Friday through Sunday) “Historicity” (ACT), likely to rank among this year’s most inventively purposeful jazz releases, finds the pianist and composer Vijay Iyer...
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