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An album launch party can be an abstract concept, no different from another gig on a long tour. But this particular album launch party, celebrating the release of Alison Shearer’s In The Garden, with hazelnut cake gratis and guest…

Social media heavyweights are agitating against the “epidemic” of Australians in New York City. Their claims to a unique culture, we are told, are disingenuous and plain. And while I agree that Brooklyn probably doesn’t need another brunch…

There are shows that are about the music. There are shows that are about the personalities, the showmanship. Then there are shows that are about something bigger, something outside the concert space. The performance of Godspeed You! Black…

Trouser Press books, a New York-based publishing house specializing in music journalism and fiction, is publishing London Calling New York New York by English journalist Peter Silverton on March 12. The book tells the winding tale - or…

Esperanza Spalding, the Portland-born bassist and singer, performed a night of shapeshifting avant-garde jazz at the Blue Note on Wednesday, February 19. The hour-and-a-half set was part of a 12-night, two-show-a-night run at the West…

The Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Philip Nuzzo, performed a night of 20th Century British classical music at the enchanting St Ann and the Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn Heights, February 7. Lasting nearly two hours, the…

Fievel Is Glauque, the New York-Brussels duo of Zach Phillips and Ma Clément, played an hour and a half of bold, raucous bold jazz-pop at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, Thursday, February 6. The band opened the set with rocky ballad…

Yuto Mitomi, a New York City-based jazz multi-instrumentalist and composer, self-releases his third album Epicycle on Friday February 7. The album’s eight tracks, which play with themes of the movements of celestial bodies, the weather…

The Brooklyn Conservatory Community Orchestra (BCCO), led by its Music Director Dorothy Savitch, performed an afternoon of classical music spanning 180 years to a packed Brooklyn Museum Saturday 7th December. The performance began with…

The Orchestra Now (TŌN), conducted by Leon Botstein, performed a set of works by modernist American composer Charles Ives at Manhattan’s Carnegie Hall, on Thursday, November 21st. The evening concluded a Bard College Ives festival, one…