John Zorn

There are big doings on the Miles Davis front this week, with the imminent release of the boxed mega-set The Complete Miles Davis Columbia Collection , which brings together in one deluxe package the trumpeter's total output for the label, plus unreleased material, on 72 discs. Read More

Some might see the acoustic guitar as an apparatus for playing folk, blues, soft rock, and anything that's smooth and gentle. Read More

I've always made time to check out new music from jazzy organ trio-turned-jam band Medeski, Martin & Wood , but it's been about a decade since the prospect has excited me. Read More

The two biggest constants throughout Xiu Xiu 's catalog are honesty and evolution. Read More

At the Purcell Room last night, Lukas was a charmingly modest virtuoso of a musical middle ground between improvisation and composition, weaving teeming, teasing rhythmic textures from sounds he has gathered from all over the world - sirens in Johannesburg, musicians in Burkina Faso, and weird electronic soundscapes. Read More

It's fitting, almost, that Eugene Chadbourne -- an explorer of music who's built a reputation over the years as a pioneer of various forms and instruments -- last checked in on the state of popular music while driving around San Antonio, lost. Read More

At first glance, the term "jazz rabbi" might seem incongruous, but the recent installation of Greg Wall, a well-known jazz musician, as the rabbi at the Sixth Street Community Synagogue , a modern Orthodox congregation in the East Village, shows that the porkpie and the yarmulke are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Read More

You can approach guitarist Tim Sparks' music from several directions. Read More

This autumn, there has been a good local harvest in the subterranean realm of computer/electronic music. Read More

The string quartet known as Ethel taps directly into the maverick spirit that, for 32 years, has guided the Festival of New American Music. Read More