FourOneOne's 'Transatlantik' program presents new sonic ideas of Créolité + This Week's Shows Include: Darius Jones / 'Italomatic' / Souled American / Nate Harrison's "Can I Get an Amen?" / more

The Grateful Dead's bassist, the value of aging, the question of time + This Week's Shows Include: Ursula Rucker, Tim Motzer & Gintas Janusonis / The Cure album release party / livwutang / more

What can the musicking underground's refusal to stop dreaming, conjure next?

On music and the "other side of the veil" + This week's shows include: Luke Stewart Silt Trio / Fay Victor's Jean x 'Heavy Florals' / Sweater on Polo x 'Nonstop' / Eddie Palmieri Salsa Orchestra / ++

The musician and organizer on improvisation, community-building, and the myths of composition.

King Britt’s “Blacktronika,” Waajeed’s Underground Music Academy, and the future of Black electronic music pedagogy.

About “No One Turned Away For Lack of Funds” + This Week's Shows Include: Shabaka / Bread & Puppet Theater / Patricia Brennan Septet / 'Flowers: In Appreciation of Q-Tip' / Lollisse / + 16 more

A 2019 interview with New York's legendary free jazz bassist on achieving heaven, and leaving space for mystery + Shows: Dorothy Carter / Yussef Dayes Experience / Stacey "Hotwaxx" Hale / more.

A Q&A with the vocalist of the "spiritual punk" quintet, Elder Ones + Shows: 'Public Service' / Rebekah Heller Bassoon Ensemble / DJ Spinna's 'Soul Slam: Prince' / Steam Down + Lovie / more

A documentary about a record store, life's works and steering a creative path forward + Shows: 'Eric Dolphy: Freedom of Sound' / STEFA* / Photay with Celia Hollander & Robbie Lee / Villalobos / more

How the community around André 3000’s "New Blue Sun" is mapping today’s jazz diaspora.

The producer/composer talks about how rhythm and bass bridges disparate worlds, and stimulates her creative process + Shows: musclecars / Marc Ribot Quartet / Luke Stewart's Silt Trio / and more.

On the importance of music in the time of strife + Shows: DJ Etta @ 'Lifesavers x Moods' / Eiko Ishibashi / Jeff Mills @ 'Long Play Festival' / sinonó / Gilles Petersen / 'Public Service' / More.

Bklyn's Black electronic dance music festival, founded by/for the community, has been a cornerstone of NYC nightlife renewal + Shows: Kalia Vandever with Rafiq Bhatia & Darian Donovan Thomas / + more.

On Lincoln Center's Unity Festival v. Winter Jazzfest, and how it can impact the future + Shows: sinonó / Amir ElSaffar / I Am / Nicole Misha / 'Abortion Access Benefit Series' / and much more.

The acclaimed South African pianist meets Los Angeles' ambient-jazz ringleader for a session that shuttles between atmospheric studio experiments and gorgeously unadorned solo takes.

Trumpeter Chris Williams and cellist Lester St. Louis are two of the busiest mainstays in Brooklyn’s improvised-music scene. They perform with a wildly diverse cast of collaborators for audiences both posh and punk. 

Interview with Philly-based drummer, composer/improvisor, and multidisciplinary artist: "What I'm mostly interested in is working with people, and their relationship with what they're trying to make."

Interview: Bklyn-born Tara Duvivier is a distinguished event promoter and adventurous dance-music DJ, who in her day-job fights for New York's community futures.

With lay-offs and discontinued arts sections comes more culture-gutting + Shows: RP Boo / "Public Service" / Arthur Verocai / Wendy Eisenberg & gabby fluke-mogul + Asher White / Prince of Queens +

Over the past quarter-century, Kieran Hebden has explored an impossibly vast range of sounds and collaborations.

Where we hear live music and what are the expectations?

On Sam Green's essay-film + Other Shows: Moor Mother / Ahmed Abdullah’s Diaspora Meets Francisco Mora Catlett’s AfroHORN / Tommaso Cappellato / "All Hands on Deck: A Fundraiser for Delano Smith" +...

The idea that a major touring artist is playing a gratis/first-come-first-served show at a local hole-in-the-wall without a corporate underwriter, is the kind of event that can’t help but reframe the ever-widening divide currently invoked in conversations about live music. So maybe it’s worth appreciating what’s happening at the corner of Union and Meeker.

At first, Kevin Beasley’s “A View of a Landscape” was a solo exhibit that opened at New York’s Whitney Museum in December of 2018. It rearranged a lot in my head about art and music inside art institutions, about engaging the work of music-based artists (as opposed to musicians — but why “opposed”?), and to the possibilities of stories that use these elements.

Retrospectives at the New Museum and the Guggenheim, and a historic survey at MoMA, showcase art rooted in music, improvisation and dance.

After two decades abroad, a onetime pillar of New York's music and theater communities has come home to as an elder statesman for a new generation of jazz musicians.

Punk culture and the free jazz/experimental improvisation tradition are aligned in their intentions: of going against the grain, building communities that are in opposition to things that are set in stone. (Featuring tracks by The Stooges, Miles Davis, Irreversible Entanglements, Cecil Taylor Unit, James White & The Blacks and more.)

A year after his unexpected passing, the writer/curator/musician/musicker casts an undeniable influence on how to balance critical and creative work. Plus: some great Tate links.

The 24 key albums of 2022.

In a previously unpublished 2018 conversation, the multi-disciplinary Chicago artist explains how he's been deeply inspired by his dance-club experiences, and why it’s important to keep going.

Listen to 10 episodes of music and interviews about rhythm, improvisation and community, featuring Thulani Davis, King Britt, Wadada Leo Smith, Waajeed, Harmony Holiday, jaimie branch, and more.

On a landmark mix album, the Detroit icon gathers together multiple generations of the city's dance-music faithful in a celebration of history, community, and possibility. Dance music's primary function is right there in the name: make the people move.

On Dilla Time, deforming mastery, and a limitless question: at the level of intention, are errors ever actually errors?

The final episode of Dada Strain Radio’s first season honors the memory of the late trumpeter/composer/improviser Jaimie “Breezy” Branch with music by Branch and memories from family and friends, including Kate Branch, Angel Bat David, Lester St. Louis and others.

For Jaimie Branch.

The NYC-based journalist and musical storyteller delivers his "youthful immigrant journey" in playlist and essay form.

Adam and journalist Piotr Orlov chatted about Adam's many collaborations with artists including Don Cherry and Yusuuf Lateef that started with the WMI legacy series of the late 1980s / early 1990s called Improvisations, which Adam will reboot for our 2022-2023 Season launch event that will feature some of the original artists from the series along with next generation improvisational artists.

The newest episode of Dada Strain, “Listening to an Elder,” is a profile of the great trumpeter, composer and artist, Wadada Leo Smith. Ever since he became an early member of Chicago’s influential community, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), in the mid 1960s, Wadada has created music on the edge of composition and improvisation.

Confronting the ghosts, the energy and the potential reward at 2 GIGS: Olivia Rodrigo @ Radio City Music Hall (April 27) + The Loft @ Ukrainian National Home (May 29).