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Music Review | Christian McBride: Part Concert, Part Chat: Two Guys Talking Music

Posted: January 7th, 2009, 4:07am GMT by By NATE CHINEN

The bassist Christian McBride kicked off “Conversations With Christian,” a yearlong series of onstage dialogues, with words and music, at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola on Monday.

Music Review | Neil Young: He Has a Heart of Gold and a Car of Biodiesel

Posted: December 17th, 2008, 4:34am GMT by By NATE CHINEN

Near the midpoint of his sprawling, deeply satisfying show at Madison Square Garden on Monday night, Neil Young asked a simple question: “Where did all the money go?”

Music Review | Susanna: Spectral Songs, Confessional and Slow

Posted: December 15th, 2008, 5:31am GMT by By NATE CHINEN

Susanna, a singer-songwriter from Norway, approaches music making with the composure of a conjurer.

Playlist: Lucky Days and Marvelous Times

Posted: December 14th, 2008, 3:56am GMT by By NATE CHINEN

On this week’s playlist, releases by Bruce Springsteen, Angelica Sanchez, Mos Def, Cat Power, Buffalo Collision and Alice Russell.

Music Review | Anat Cohen: Horn Player, but No Slouch in the Dance Department

Posted: October 24th, 2008, 4:21am GMT by By NATE CHINEN

The performance of ballads, sambas and reggae-influenced sounds also included some dancing by the multireedist Anat Cohen at the Village Vanguard.

Music Review: Master Class: An Honor Roll in Action

Posted: October 21st, 2008, 5:28am GMT by By NATE CHINEN

Sponsored and bestowed by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Jazz Masters awards have been a rare public accolade for jazz since they began in 1982.

Music Review | Cold War Kids: Pummeling Blues-Rock and Desperate Dirges

Posted: October 17th, 2008, 4:02am GMT by By NATE CHINEN

There’s a struggle between wildness and solicitousness in the output of Cold War Kids, which is based in Long Beach, Calif., but somehow rooted in Southern boogie.

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Music Review | Muhal Richard Abrams and Amina Claudine Myers, the Wet Ink Ensemble: Conversations, Free-Flowing Yet Precise

Posted: October 11th, 2008, 4:27am GMT by By NATE CHINEN

Muhal Richard Abrams, Amina Claudine Myers and the Wet Ink Ensemble performed at the Kitchen on Thursday to honor the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.

Music Review | Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson: A Visit With That Nice Couple Next Door

Posted: September 18th, 2008, 4:55am GMT by By NATE CHINEN

Kasey Chambers performed with her husband and father at the Highline Ballroom on Tuesday in a show that felt leisurely, even informal, but also supremely polished.

Music Review: A Voice That Smolders but Still Plays It Cool

Posted: August 26th, 2008, 2:53am GMT by By NATE CHINEN

Through much of her show, Melody Gardot weighed vulnerability against seductiveness, without really taking sides.

Music Review | Roots of American Music Festival: From Back-Porch Ease to a Taste of the Wild

Posted: August 26th, 2008, 2:52am GMT by By NATE CHINEN

The Roots of American Music Festival, held last weekend in Damrosch Park, adopted a flexible definition of roots music in an effort to build bridges and audiences.

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Music Review | Ron Miles and Bill Frisell: Two’s a (Quietly Harmonious) Crowd

Posted: August 19th, 2008, 5:25am GMT by By NATE CHINEN

Trumpeter Ron Miles and guitarist Bill Frisell evinced their uncommon musical rapport at the Jazz Standard on Thursday.

Music Review: Industrial Dissonance on a Sunny Day in the Park

Posted: August 18th, 2008, 3:13am GMT by By NATE CHINEN

Battles, Black Dice and Gang Gang Dance — three groups known for making a racket — played a free concert at Central Park SummerStage on Saturday afternoon.

Playlist: Heartbreak and Harmony, From Norway to Mississippi

Posted: August 15th, 2008, 7:36pm GMT by By NATE CHINEN

Reviews of new releases by Juliana Hatfield, Mathias Eick, Apollo Sunshine, the Duhks and more.

Music Review | Bob Dylan: In Prospect Park, the Consequences of Love and a Shot of War

Posted: August 13th, 2008, 2:08pm GMT by By NATE CHINEN

Bob Dylan played to a sold-out crowd at the Prospect Park Bandshell in Brooklyn on Tuesday night.

Music: Jersey City Serenades Miss Liberty With a New Rock Festival

Posted: August 11th, 2008, 6:14am GMT by By NATE CHINEN

The All Points West rock festival was extremely well organized for a maiden effort. But almost every pleasure point came with a trade-off.

Music Review | Greg Osby: A Progressive Who Knows How to Be Here Now

Posted: August 7th, 2008, 4:49am GMT by By NATE CHINEN

The alto saxophonist Greg Osby has routinely been assessed over the last 20 years as a jazz progressive, the sort of musician who constantly pushes forward.

Music Review: A Quartet Investigates a Mutant Jazz Landscape

Posted: August 4th, 2008, 5:41am GMT by By NATE CHINEN

The Vijay Iyer Quartet trafficks in a surging, complex, mutant strain of post-bop, steeped in portent and incident.

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Music Review: Back to the ’60s in a Bebop Mode

Posted: July 28th, 2008, 4:50am GMT by By NATE CHINEN

The pianist Dan Nimmer has a crisp, orderly, ebullient style, and over the last few years he has put it through its paces.

Music Review | DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist: Sound-Collage Partners, Mixing Stunts and Spirit

Posted: July 19th, 2008, 2:52am GMT by By NATE CHINEN

DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist have carved out an unusual niche together over the last decade, as sound collagists strictly devoted to the spinning of original-pressing 45s.

Four Decades of Music That Redefined Free

Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 3:25am GMT by By NATE CHINEN

A new book and a panel discuss the American avant-garde music movement of the last 40 years.

Music Review: Politics and Star Power, Above the Crowd and in It

Posted: April 17th, 2008, 3:13am GMT by By NATE CHINEN

Beth Ditto, the lead singer of the Gossip, takes a shrewdly inclusive approach to the art of spectacle.

Music Review: 2 Smooth Veterans, Still Cruising Along the Road

Posted: March 29th, 2008, 4:18am GMT by By NATE CHINEN

Dave Brubeck and Ramsey Lewis have a few things in common beyond their vocations as jazz pianists.

Music Review: Small Group, Big Sound

Posted: March 20th, 2008, 3:26am GMT by By NATE CHINEN

Pat Metheny’s sold-out trio concert on Tuesday night at Town Hall was hardly a sparse proposition.

Music Review: Another British Invader Arrives, Guitar in Hand

Posted: March 19th, 2008, 2:37am GMT by By NATE CHINEN

Adele, a 19-year-old singer-songwriter from London, presented two distinct personalities on Monday night at Joe’s Pub.

Music Review: Brooding and Brute Force Are Here to Share the Stage

Posted: March 12th, 2008, 3:40am GMT by By NATE CHINEN

Under normal circumstances, you probably wouldn’t expect to see a Norwegian jazz-metal band on the same bill as a Brooklyn indie-pop outfit, a Baltimore art-rock duo and a calmly introspective singer-songwriter, also Norwegian. But that was the lineup at the Knitting Factory on Monday.