By: Franklin Bruno

“We ought to go into rehab, but we’re too stoned to care.”

By: Brian Berger

“We play unsegregated music.”

By: Brian Berger

“Ah, yes, the Hankenstein.”

By: Franklin Bruno

“I use all my skills to make situations as chaotic as possible.”

By: HILOBROW

“Lots of lowbrows [and] highbrows, I’m telling you the facts”

By: Brian Berger

The tenor saxophonist’s tone was a marvel of fluid sincerity.

By: Matthew Battles

The enigmatic uke player’s lonely, uncanny shtick.

By: Matthew De Abaitua

Traveling the spaceways, a massive starship with one passenger.

By: Sarah Weinman

Rat-a-tat consonants and sweet glissandi…

By: Brian Berger

“Let my children have music! Let them hear live music. Not noise.”

By: Patrick Cates

He turned the jazz and funk scenes of the ’60s and ’70s upside-down.

By: Brian Berger

He challenged social and musical conventions.

By: Patrick Cates

Until 1964, JOHN COLTRANE (1926-67) was a virtuoso, blasting out bebop as wing-man to the likes of Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, and later leading his own hard bop lineups, where he is probably most […]

By: Matthew Battles

We’ve been reading news today about music composed for monkeys. Most animals don’t respond to music. But is that because music per se is incomprehensible to them, or because it’s customarily created from the spectrum […]

By: Douglas Wolk

JOHN ZORN (born 1953) has been the nexus of the musical avant-garde in New York for a couple of decades — an unbelievably prolific composer and performer and curator and label-dude whose early look-how-eclectic-I-am tendencies […]