Verneri Pohjola Quartet Hot Pot Around The Corner

This one is for Mike, aka Big Duck of Layabozi, and my best friend, who’s leaving Shanghai tomorrow. He’s going to conquer other lands hoping to convert more people to the awesomeness of jazz. I’m sure he will.

Editor’s Picks May 26-30

One cool thing about the Expo so far is that different countries have been taking turns taking over the city, one week at a time. This week it’s Finland, but that’s not to say there isn’t local flavor going on at the same time.

Editor’s Picks April 15-18

Update: Now with the Anar Two Year Birthday Party and the Taylor Ho Bynum show, both on Sunday, in the comments. In which I take a break from writing a mind-blowing arrangement of the Love Radio 103.7 theme, with the only goal being to hip you all to this weekend’s awesomeness.

Random Jazz Notes+

Get it! Ha ha. Anyway, I’m underwater with busy-ness, but here’s what my pick for tonight would be, as well as other news and stuff from the general Shanghai jazziverse. The rest of the picks will be up soon.

Editor’s Picks March 11-13

This will be a rollicking weekend, though sadly I will be rollicking on another continent. Classic invader countries/people Finland and Mongolia send dudes, as do the 20th century experts who brought us a newer, subtler, but unmistakably invasive kind of invasion: the USA and USSR. Man the barricades!

Editor’s Picks, January 28th-31st

“Music is a form whose meaning depends upon its violation.” Scientists say music must be surprising to be liked by your brain. In that case, you’ve come to the right place.

Editor’s Picks Dec. 3-7

Birthdays aplenty, mutliple conflict-of-interest picks, Lions of Puxi CD release, and Imperialism and all Reactionaries are just Paper Tigers. And more.

Editor’s Picks July 30-Aug 2

Read on for your chance to win two fly honeys!*

*Contest open only to giant pink space creatures