Recommended by Dylan Hicks
News and views about new music – contemporary composition, creative music & improvisation, electronic and electroacoustic work, and idioms for which no clever genre name has yet been coined – on stage and on recordings.
Intelligently and diligently maintained, Night After Night has become one of my Baedekers for new experimental music.
Riffs on music and culture, improvised and otherwise, from critic Nate Chinen
A pantheon jazz critic with a flexible mind and generous spirit, Chinen is authoritative but never lordly, and he writes with care whether settling into an essay, filing a dispatch, reviewing a club date, or assembling a book. Few are as attuned as he to the contemporary scene as it unfolds in performance and on record, and his essays and dispatches are grounded in the music's history and his own lifelong passion.
