Email Author Aaron Shuman

2002 Stories by Aaron Shuman

• Hear This

  published May 8, 2002

  Since emerging from Berlin's new-music scene in the mid-'70s, reedist Wolfgang Fuchs (above right) has left listeners grasping for words to... More >>

• Vijay Iyer

  published January 30, 2002

  Where some see jazz as a bop style that must be preserved, Vijay Iyer sees the form as a tradition of African-American experimentalism, open to... More >>

• The Week's Can't-Miss Performance

  published January 23, 2002

  Though the Brooklyn Sax Quartet is touring the West Coast to support its first CD, The Way of the Saxophone, it would be misleading to hail... More >>

• The Week's Can't-Miss Performance

  published January 9, 2002

  Trumpeter Russell Gunn has the prodigy back-story that armchair critics love: He grew up in East St. Louis just like Miles Davis, got discovered... More >>