Andrew Bird, Questlove, Thundercat, Kim Gordon and others played the 'Night of Improvised Round Robin Duets' (pics)
"James Chance. You too with the sheet music?"
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"James Chance. You too with the sheet music?"
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"I like to mess with everything," says upcoming 21-year-old NYC producer Chester Raj Anand, aka Lord RAJA. & it shows.
Read MoreMike Patton 's score to The Place Beyond the Pines is streaming in full at pitchfork.com . The film stars Ryan Gosling , Eva Mendes , and Bradley Cooper , and was directed by Derek Cianfrance ( Blue Valentine ).
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The Rite depicts, of course, a series of rites.
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Now that the dust has settled on the New Year and the noise has quieted around the many Best Albums of the Year polls, we thought we'd offer a few favorite titles from 2012 that slipped through the cracks.
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In his latest monthly column, John Fordham picks some recent and imminent jazz highlights.
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With my regular Parlour to Parlour series taking a little nap this year (don't worry, it's coming back), I've had quite a bit more head space to pay attention to new music.
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After the war broke out, we headed down to the bunker—Fifties-issue, concrete walls, boxes of canned food, smells a little moldy—but Cayla couldn't stand my smoking, or my singing, so she climbed back up to join the resistance.
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In the jazz world, I've found that the long-established artists, especially the ones who play in the well-established styles, get the bulk of the press and buzz.
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In January he released his solo debut, the rugged Nehru Jackets , on his own Greedhead label, and today he drops his second mixtape of the year, Wild Water Kingdom.
Read MoreIf you can't make it in person, the shows will be streamed live on Q2 Music , which is operated by WQXR.
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Always talented, Pakistani-born guitarist Rez Abbasi is a skilled musician who's really come into his own recently as not merely an instrumental whiz, but as a complete artist.
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Time for a cup o' joe and a stack of great new music — courtesy of Bob Dylan, Chris Knight, David Byrne and St. Vincent, Fred Hersch, Neal Morse, Patterson Hood, Steve Forbert and ZZ Top. Forthcoming reissues and live projects set for release this week include Circle II Circle, Dio, Flotsam and Jetsam, Massive Attack, and the Rolling Stones with Muddy Waters.
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Typically if you want to find the truly forward-thinking jazz pianist these days, you have to go out to whack jazz, where you'll find visionaries like Matthew Shipp.
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The latest edition of New Music Monday is highlighted by Mike Keneally's fascinating new collaboration with Andy Partridge of XTC fame , some rare new blues sides from Fleetwood Mac co-founder Peter Green and a complete discography from Bob Mould's early-1990s band Sugar.
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Microtonal music theory teaches us, among other things, that being "out of tune" is a relative concept.
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Here we are only halfway done with 2012 and it's already been a bangin' year for modern and mainstream jazz, whether you prefer a celebration of the tradition or an expansion of the frontiers.
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Tenor sax legend Sonny Rollins was a triple winner Wednesday at the annual Jazz Awards, garnering musician of the year honors for the second straight year.
Read MoreAfter a decade's absence The Sugarman 3 return with What the World Needs Now and the long break betrays no signs of rust.
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podcast and we're very happy to announce this new one by London's K15 , a good friend and very talented producer.
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In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.
Read MoreThanks to those who posted comments on last month's Take Five – including nilpferd's suggestion that Herbie Hancock's 1962 Blue Note debut Takin' Off would make a fitting 50th anniversary classic for May. I couldn't agree more.
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In the past, we've been proud to make available FMP titles that have languished out-of-print for many decades.
Read MoreIyer's other passion was science, which he studied first at Yale and then at Berkeley.
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It's been three years since Stephan Crump, Marcus Gilmore, and Vijay Iyer made a record together , and in that time, the trio 's headliner, Iyer, has clawed his way across the keyboard to a pretty exalted place within the jazz world.
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Travail, Transformation and Flow (2009) served noticed that everyone's favorite up and coming alto saxophonist has come up and arrived.
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The Indian American jazz pianist's first release since his Grammy-nominated Historicity reached the top of the charts in 2009 hits stores and on line retailers with a crush of new praise.
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All aboard the cool-rocking new release train, as cool stuff arrives from Adrenaline Mob, Ben Howard, Meat Loaf, Shooter Jennings and Vijay Iyer , along with key reissues and live dates from Humble Pie, Janis Joplin and 10,000 Maniacs.
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In characterizing the music of the deliberately elusive collective Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber, one can come up with a whole host of made-up genres and still not quite nail what they sound like.
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Central Heating by the funk-disco band Heatwave.
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