Brian Shankar Adler’s Fourth Dimension (Jalopy Theatre, New York, 5 December 2019. Review by Dan Bergsagel) Every jazz musician brings a tradition with them into the music they compose and improvise. Having […]
Aruán Ortiz (The Stone, NYC. 13 November 2019. Review by Dan Bergsagel) Aruán Ortiz has lots of interests – Cuban folklore, serial and chamber music, acoustic representations of pattern and architecture. With […]
Buster Williams: Bass to Infinity (World Premiere at IFC center, part of DOC NYC. 12 November 2019. Review by Dan Bergsagel) By most accounts the story of Buster Williams should have been […]
Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society (Jazz Standard, New York, 24 October 2019. Review by Dan Bergsagel) There is no dramatic start or ear-catching launch; instead, Darcy James Argue is slowly layering the […]
Mingus Big Band (Jazz Standard, E 27th Street, New York. 14 October 2019. Review by Dan Bergsagel) Monday is often a night off in the jazz world, but not at the Jazz […]
Michael Winograd is a driving force in modern Klezmer music in New York and beyond. He spoke to Dan Bergsagel about the music, its traditions, and his band Honorable Mentschn’s new album, […]
Telepathic Band – Electric Telepathy Vol. 1 album launch (Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY, 10 September 2019. Review by Dan Bergsagel) Album launch sets come in all shapes and sizes: sometimes they are a […]
Frowny Frown (The Stone, New York, 16 July 2019. Review by Dan Bergsagel) Halfway through the second piece I nearly started crying. I had accepted that – however well produced – no […]
Spanish Fly (Owl Music Parlor, Brooklyn, 14 July 2019. Review by Dan Bergsagel) I hold these truths to be self-evident: Spanish Fly are 30 years old. Spanish Fly were beyond genre before […]
Paris-Londres: Music Migrations (1962-1989) (Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris, to 5 January 2020. Exhibition review by Dan Bergsagel) The story goes something like this: jazz came from the African-American community in […]
