THE GIG

The Age of Worry

New Music, May 22

John Mayer, "Born and Raised"

Exalted, and Alone

Karsten Moran for The New York Times

Cecil Taylor

Harlem Stage Gatehouse, May 18

Carded!

A couple of months ago I presented a paper — "Nice Work: Jazz Agency and the New York City Cabaret Card, 1943-1967" — at the EMP Pop Conference. The abridged, edited-for-mainstream-usage version of the paper appeared in the May issue of JazzTimes, and can now be accessed online. There are a lot of interesting little historical details that didn't make the cut in this version, but I think it gets my basic point across. (Pictured above: Billie Holiday leaving a Philadelphia police station after her arrest in 1956.)

New Bottle, Old Wine

The Centennial of Gil Evans Brings Two Big Events

On Gil Evans and an Unsentimental Jazz Repertory

Taking the Soul for a Walk

Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times

Meditation, and Time with the Sticks

Dafnis Prieto, Sunday Routine

Long Live the Undead

Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times

Undead Music Festival

May 9, Greenwich Village

Songs and Portraits

From Israel, a United Nations of Jazz

RIP Phoebe Jacobs

Phoebe Jacobs, Publicist for Jazz Greats, Dies at 93

Finger Poppin'

Todd Heisler/The New York Times

Exuberance is Just One of His Many Skills

Don Was Becomes President at Blue Note

Dirty Old Man

New Music, April 30

Dirty Dozen Brass Band, "Twenty Dozen"