Live Music Reviews

Joe Rosenberg Quartet at Yuyintang

September 25th, 2008 by

While chatting with him after the show, I made the mistake of referring to the music that Joe Rosenberg’s Quartet played last Sunday as “free jazz.” Like most genre labels, this one is frequently inaccurate. While concerts do take place that are “free” in the sense that nothing is decided upon before the musicians start [...]

Music goes MOON in Shanghai

September 14th, 2008 by

I should have been at the China Now concert today by Huahai rd. and Pu’An rd, I wasn’t. The rain was a good excuse to rest, a pause to continue tonight. The last days had been full of music and there’s more to come. Last Thursday we saw the coming back of Theo Crocker to [...]

YuYinTang Last Tuesday

July 20th, 2008 by

Once upon a time, not so long ago, my personal mantra was “tighten the screws, relax the sphincter.” It came to me in a dream, and this brilliant, cosmic, east-meets-west prescription for success and self-mastery was a powerful revelation to all who heard it until I forgot about it a few weeks later. At YuYinTang [...]

Sunday Jam at LOgO

July 9th, 2008 by

Last Sunday night I ended the wonderfully hot weekend at LOgO listening live amateur and not so amateur Rock. After the ‘cut-da-wave’ DJ from England at Shelter – The Bug – LOgO’s Jam Session was very refreshing. I made it on time to listen 6 or 7 songs of the Ska Band “No. 1 Korea”, [...]