التصنيف: Jazz
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WNYC: Weekend Arts Planner, July 29, 2023.
Endea Owens (Photograph courtesy Jazz at Lincoln Center and Bryant Park) The latest Weekend Arts Planner segment for WNYC, which aired on Weekend Edition on Saturday, July 29, covered items selected from a Gothamist story published on Thursday: "25 free things to do in NYC this August." David Furst and I talked about Free Shakespeare…
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Gothamist: 7 Picks a Week, July 28, 2023.
Endea Owens (Photograph courtesy of the artist) My contributions to "7 Picks a Week," the weekly Gothamist guide of arts and culture events and happenings in and around New York City. The complete article can be found here. Check out fast-rising bassist Endea Owens for free Detroit bassist, composer and bandleader Endea Owens is making…
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7 Picks a Week, Nov. 25, 2022.
Raphael Payare (Photograph courtesy Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal) My contributions to the latest installment of 7 picks a week, the arts and culture guide I compile weekly for Gothamist. See mysticism and melancholy through a world-famous painter's eyes "Exodus," an exhibition of recent works by the German painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer, is so big…
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7 Picks a Week, Nov. 18, 2022.
Jason Moran and The Bandwagon (Photograph courtesy of the artists) My contributions to the latest installment of 7 picks a week, the arts and culture guide I compile weekly for Gothamist. See how the Great Migration inspired a cellist to make a move Already known as one of the finest young cellists of his generation,…
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7 Picks a Week, Nov. 11, 2022.
Nina Chanel Abney exhibition (Photograph courtesy Pace Prints) Here are my contributions to the latest installment of 7 picks a week, the arts and culture guide I compile weekly for Gothamist. Celebrate a hard-working jazz trio's 10th anniversary Serendipity had a hand in the formation of Thumbscrew, when bassist Michael Formanek filled in as a…
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7 Picks a Week, Nov. 4, 2022.
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David Lynch (Photograph: Josh Telles) On Friday, Nov. 4, we rebooted the web post previously called Weekend Arts Planner. We moved it up to Friday, in hopes that it could serve to actually help folks plan their weekends and not just the days beyond. And we opened it up to more voices and perspectives from…
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Weekend Arts Planner (not), Oct. 29, 2022.
Mali Obomsawin (Photograph courtesy Jazz Gallery) Weekend Arts Planner took a break during the last weekend of October, chiefly due to on-air scheduling issues. But these are the items I prepared for the occasion, as they appeared in the Gothamist article "11 fun things to do in NYC that have nothing to do with trick-or-treating"…
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Weekend Arts Planner, Oct. 8, 2022.
Etienne Charles (Photograph: Lawrence Sumulong for Lincoln Center) The latest episode of Weekend Arts Planner, my weekly chat with Weekend Edition host David Furst that airs every Saturday morning on WNYC, covers noteworthy doings presented by the Museum of Modern Art, Lincoln Center, and the New York Philharmonic. Have a listen, or just read the…
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NPR: “The Best Music of July: NPR Staff Picks”
Mayan Space Station by William Parker "The Best Music of July: NPR Staff Picks"NPR MusicAugust 3, 2021 William Parker: "Tabasco" from Mayan Space Station The veteran bassist, composer and community organizer William Parker is having an incredible year, with a 10-CD box set and an authorized biography already under his belt. He put out two…
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Concert review: Irving Stone Memorial Concert, July 5, 2003
I recall writing this review, which predates this blog by just over two years, but I don't remember for what outlet I wrote it. I located it today on a whim – after posting the image you see above on Twitter – on Acoustic Levitation, an online journal edited and published by Steve Koenig, a…