التصنيف: Live reviews
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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…
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Welcome (Back) to Night After Night.
Change is upon us once again, and with it a fresh start for Night After Night—elsewhere. As of Thursday, April 23, the primary focus of my work has shifted over to a newly launched Substack newsletter, also called Night After Night. That title has provided my online identity – my "brand" – for more than…
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Caught: Shots, Blank Forms, Feb. 27, 2020.
ShotsBlank Forms, Brooklyn, NY February 27, 2020 General admission Personnel: Daniel DiMaggio, amplified objects, recordingsJohn Friberg, amplified objects, recordings Matthew Friberg, amplified objects, movement On Thursday night at Blank Forms, the intimate third-floor walk-up gallery space recently opened in Clinton Hill by the curatorial organization of the same name, the trio Shots played a brief…
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Caught: Charles Curtis, Issue Project Room, Feb. 21, 2020.
Charles Curtis, Abigail Levine, Dancers, and Wind EnsembleIssue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY February 21, 2020 General admission Personnel: Charles Curtis, cello Abigail Levine, dancer, choreographer Amanda Brown, design Rob Besserer, Elena Demyanenko, Kentoria Earle, Ayano Elson, Maho Ogawa, Kristopher K.Q. Pourzal, dancers Michael Matsuno, Teresa Diaz de Cossio, flutes Nicolee Kuester, French horn Rachel Allen,…
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Caught: Tiger Trio, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jan. 4, 2020.
Tiger Trio Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY January 4, 2020General admission Personnel: Joëlle Léandre, bass, vocalsMyra Melford, pianoNicole Mitchell, flute, alto flute, piccolo Back in the heyday of live jazz on New York City's 52nd Street, from the end of Prohibition in 1933 until the early '50s, the Three Deuces occupied a…
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Caught: Forest Speech, Museum of Modern Art, Nov. 17, 2019.
David Tudor: Forest SpeechPerformed by Lea Bertucci, John Driscoll, Ed Potokar, Margaret Anne Schedel, and Philip WhiteMuseum of Modern Art, New York, NYNovember 17, 2019 Sunday afternoon, after my daughter attended a performance of David Tudor's Forest Speech at the Museum of Modern Art with her mother and me, I asked her what she'd thought.…
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Caught: Dead & Company, Madison Square Garden, Nov. 1, 2019.
Dead & Company Madison Square Garden, New York, NY November 1, 2019 Section 210, Row 12, Seat 2 Personnel: Bob Weir, guitar & vocals Bill Kreutzmann, drums Mickey Hart, percussion John Mayer, guitar & vocals Oteil Burbridge, bass, vocals, drums Jeff Chimenti, keyboards & vocalsMaggie Rogers, guest vocals (*) First set: Cold Rain and SnowHell…
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Caught: Dead & Company, Citi Field, Flushing, NY, June 23, 2019.
Dead & CompanyCiti Field, Flushing, NYJune 23, 2019Section 122, Row 22, Seat 2 Personnel: Bob Weir, guitar & vocalsBill Kreutzmann, drumsMickey Hart, percussionJohn Mayer, guitar & vocalsOteil Burbridge, bass, vocals, drumsJeff Chimenti, keyboards & vocals First set: St. StephenCold Rain and SnowSamson and DelilahHigh TimeThey Love Each OtherRamble On RoseSugareeJack Straw Second set: Terrapin Station…
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Auld lang syne.
Up until about 15 years ago, I maintained a document whose existence I cherished: a near-complete listing of all the concerts I'd attended during my lifetime up to that point. "Near-complete," because I'm pretty sure it started with Spyro Gyra at the Agora Ballroom in Houston (Nov. 16, 1980) and not my actual first concert:…
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Tony Malaby at the Internet Café (Village Voice R.I.P.).
I wrote for the Village Voice only one time, very early in my professional career, at the tail end of the full-time jazz journalism stage that preceded my return to classical music after around five years of estrangement. The article was published Feb. 27, 2001, or so the website tells me. That I never returned to…