“What do you wanna play, Bucky? Let's have a union meeting,” Frank Vignola joked. “Nuages,” he replied as he started off solo on the Django Reinhardt classic. Bucky Pizzarelli, Frank Vignola, and Vinny Raniolo were all ...

“I played in the big Egg a few times,” Chris Wood mentioned after a few opening tunes with the Wood Brothers, his project away from Medeski, Martin and Wood. “This is like . . . ...

Anything goes with these five. Us Five, that is—Joe Lovano’s newest supergroup that leveled the Egg this past weekend. This group explore the outer limits of creative improvisation in a postmodern rhythmic soundscape where dueling ...

Railbird's homecoming Friday night at Valentine's saw them perform all three songs from their newly released EP, Lucky, as well as new interpretations of some of their most popular tunes from their album No One. Local ...

Robert Glasper’s newest release, Black Radio, has a lot of great stuff on it, but one of the things it doesn’t have much of is extended improvisational sections. This show at the Egg featured material ...

The Freihofer’s Jazz Festival was a Latin jazz paradise this year. Acts like Pedrito Martinez, Steve Kroon, Edmar Castaneda, and Arturo O’Farrill stole the show O’Farrill’s orchestra were doing just fine on their own playing the ...

The Troy Gasholder building was transformed into an apocalyptic edge of the world on Saturday and Sunday nights. Artist and RPI professor Michael Oatman was captain of the team that brought this large-scale interactive multimedia ...