THE GIG

Tilting at Windmills

Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times

Take 6

Blue Note, May 8

Builders

New Music, April 27

Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, "Brooklyn Babylon"

Break Stuff

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Vijay Iyer: Solo, Trio, Sextet

Zankel Hall, April 27

Champagne Bublé

As of today, it's official: Michael Bublé has the No. 1 album in America. 

Last Thursday I hitched a ride with his promotional whirlwind for a few hours, snapping the pic above with my phone. My piece was in Saturday's paper.

NYT photo ninja Chad Batka put together  a great slideshow online.

Burnin' Up

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Steve Coleman and Five Elements

April 23, The Stone

Sunset Boulevard

New Music, April 23

Phoenix, "Bankrupt!" and Boney James, "The Beat"

Walking Lightly

John Rogers/ECM Records

Playlist, April 21

Craig Taborn Trio, J.D. Allen, Eric Church, Anna Webber, Junip

'Tacitly Improvising Calm and Unrest'

Richard Termine/The New York Times

Tyshawn Sorey's Wu Wei Quintet

Greenwich House Music School, April 17

Fast As You Can

Chang W. Lee/The New York Times

Chris Thile and Brad Mehldau

Bowery Ballroom, April 9

Longview

chad batka for the new york times

Green Day

Barclays Center, April 7