Popcast: Jazz in Museums

Popcast

The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

3.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Nate Chinen and Ben Ratliff on the ways jazz is being presented at museum spaces.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, your 18,000 feet of musical news and analysis.
0:06.5	I'm your host Ben Ratliff. Oh, We're listening to Mystic Brew by Viji or Trio. I'm here with Nate Chinen.
0:36.7	Hi, Nate. Hello, Ben.
0:38.0	We were hearing something related to that song.
0:42.1	Was it that song itself? It was that song. It was the very last
0:47.3	gesture this morning. Earlier this morning, Nate and I were both at the same concert and that kind of weird that we were at a concert in the morning.
0:55.4	It was a rare occurrence.
0:56.6	From 1145 to 1230 at the Met Breyer, formerly known as the Whitney Museum,
1:05.0	where VJ Ier, for the second half of March,
1:10.0	through the weeks, through the days,
1:12.0	is doing a performance residency playing with his normal groups and
1:19.2	also in other more abnormal groups. Yeah more abnormal groups I mean more experimental
1:26.0	configurations involving the rapper heems who else people outside his
1:31.6	the novelist Tejou Cole?
1:33.8	Tejoucole is doing something with him?
1:35.4	His fellow pianist Craig Taborne.
1:38.3	Harpist named Brandy Younger.
1:39.6	That's right.
1:40.6	Lots of people. So this morning we saw V.J. I.
1:42.6	In a trio with the bassist Tarih Rogavan and the drummer Taishan Sori. And we bring it up because
1:50.9	today we're going to be talking about how VJ IR's performance residency at
1:56.2	the Med Breyer is strangely enough not an isolated example of this sort of thing in New York. Right now there seemed to be three such
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