Music

Po Better Blues

“I really believe that years from now we will look back on some of Joe McPhee’s records as some of the most important records ever made,” says jazz historian and Chicagoan John Corbett.

CD Review: Mark Donato

By Jason Broome

The record’s tone, alternating between earnest and tongue-in-cheek, morbid, and wry, creates some interesting results.

CD Review: Mighty Girl

By Mike Jurkovic

Someone’s been studying the melodic chapters of the Velvet Underground songbook.

CD Review: Scott Helland and the Traveling Band of Gypsy Nomads

By Sharon Nichols

On this, his seventh recording, the six-string minstrel works all acoustic guitars, bass, drums, and percussion in what sounds like a band of gypsies but is really just his royal self on 12 jubilant tracks.

June Nightlife Highlights

By DJ Wavy Davy

DJ Wavy Davy’s picks for June!

Composing Women

By Sparrow

“Notable Women: A Celebration of Women Composers,” a chamber festival at Dia:Beacon over the first three weekends in June, attempts to redress the undeserved anonymity of female composers.

Jamming in the Ether