Fresh off a cracking European tour, drummer and composer Harris Eisenstadt‘s Canada Day will unveil its latest music at Greenwich House Music School this coming Thursday, December 11, at 8 pm. The performance is also a lead-up to a January recording session for the band’s fourth record. In an age in which few bands record
Interview with Nate Wooley conducted via email, December 2012-May 2014 CB: How did you first go about forming the Nate Wooley Quartet. Were Matt Moran, Reuben Radding, and Take Toriyama the original members? I found concert listings as early as June 2004. Did the band form shortly before that or earlier? Did the group ever
Interviews Interview: Tony Malaby Discusses His New Album, Somos Agua Interview with Nate Wooley, Part II: Early Years in New York City Videos Frikativ Quartet Live at Clemente Soto Velez (Arts for Art) breath TRIPLE sea TRIO birds Live at Clemente Soto Velez (Arts for Art) VoiceHornsBass Live at Clemente Soto Velez (Arts for Art)
Saxophonist Tony Malaby is one of the standouts of a generation of jazz musicians who got going in New York in the mid-1990s. A bold and fiery player, Malaby has made an impact on the New York scene over the past twenty years. Tony and I had the opportunity to discuss his new record, Somos
Reviews Max Johnson’s The Prisoner (No Business, 2014) Interviews Interview with Nate Wooley, Part I: Origins Dave Rempis Percussion Quartet Celebrates 10th Anniversary: Interview Videos Tatsuya Nakatani Project with Pascal Niggenkemper and Sean Ali Live at Clemente Soto Velez (Arts for Art) FIVE (Yoni Kretzmer, Steve Swell, Thomas Heberer, Max Johnson, Chad Taylor) Live at
Nate Wooley to Unveil New Double Trio at Roulette this Thursday A full set of original music will be showcased at Roulette this Thursday by one of our moment’s boldest musical voices, Nate Wooley. As an artist, Wooley seems to be climbing ever higher in his ambitions with each new project, so the debut of
Eric Dolphy – Stockholm Sessions (Enja, 2007) Eric Dolphy – The Complete Uppsala Concert (Gambit) Eric Dolphy – The Illinois Concert (Blue Note, 1999) Michael Formanek – Small Places (ECM, 2012) Eric Dolphy – Out to Lunch (Blue Note, 1964) McCoy Tyner – The Real McCoy (1967) Eric Dolphy – Outward Bound (Prestige, 1960) Nate
Interview Ava Mendoza Comes to Brooklyn Review Decay (2014) by Natura Morta New Videos Nate Wooley’s Battle Pieces Live at Roulette Nate Wooley Solo Live at Le Poisson Rouge Josh Sinton’s Quadrant Live at Douglass Street Music Collective Ingrid Laubrock Quintet Live at Cornelia Street Cafe Rob Brown Trio Live at Clemente Soto Velez (Arts
Interview Tomas Fujiwara on His Early Years as a Musician in New York City Videos Jim Hobbs Solo Live at Snug’s Jooklo Duo + Tamio Shiraishi Live at JACK Jooklo Duo + Steven Leffue, Jim Hobbs, and Stanley Zappa Live at JACK Ava Mendoza Trio Live at the Manhattan Inn Thollem McDonas and Brian Chase
Rashied Ali Quartet – New Directions in Modern Music (Knitting Factory, 1973) [vinyl] Matt Bauder and Day in Pictures – Nightshades (Clean Feed, 2014) Art Ensemble of Chicago – A Jackson in Your House (Actuel, 1969) [vinyl] John Coltrane – Live at the Village Vanguard Again! (Impulse, 1967) [vinyl] Jacob Garchik – The Heavens: The
