Concertgoing – part X, XI | Listenings by Jason Weiss
The latest concert, two nights ago. What, even, to call the music? If that matters. It wasn't jazz, or punk, or traditional music. And yet, more than threads...
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Concertgoing – part VIII, IX | Listenings by Jason Weiss
How to account for twenty-eight years of listening to music in New York, almost a blur. So many, many performances; in clubs, spaces, theaters, museums, bars, homes, parks,...
Concertgoing – part VI, VII | Listenings by Jason Weiss
From the time I was eighteen, nineteen, I began to get up to date on the jazz avant-garde. That meant a lot of listening, buying records as I...
Concertgoing – part IV, V | Listenings by Jason Weiss
A mad plan, I would never attempt it: to account for every concert I had attended. Even if I could, what then? The music's gone; all that's left...
Concertgoing – part I, II, III | Listenings by Jason Weiss
A few years ago, I wrote a book of short texts that aimed to take stock of some five decades of listening. The project grew out of a...