Nate Chinen
Nate’s Contributions
01/15/12 The Gig
2011: The Year in Gigs
Nate Chinen recalls his 10 favorite jazz performances of the past year
12/23/11 The Gig
Covert Chops: Jazz-Trained Indie Rockers
How Bon Iver, tUnE-yArDs & other young bands draw from jazz
12/02/11 Features
A Selective Guide to the Best of Roy Haynes
Roy-Quired listening: top picks from the master's catalog
11/28/11 Features
Roy Haynes in His Own Hip Way
Catching up with the most influential living drummer in jazz
10/03/11 The Gig
Where Are the Female Jazz Critics?
Women jazz musicians are ubiquitous today, but journalism lacks a feminine voice
08/19/11 The Gig
Still Searching, Still Chasin’: John Coltrane’s Village Vanguard Recordings
Nate Chinen on Trane's Village Vanguard Recordings as a life-altering experience
07/26/11 The Gig
Brandon Seabrook: Pickin’ & Rippin’
Brandon Seabrook has an itchy, overdriven, often evil-sounding interface with the banjo, and as an improviser he uses it to establish a clear but aggressively unsettled identity. You can grasp this intuitively within a minute or two of “Sacchetto Mal D’Aria...
05/23/11 The Gig
And the Grammy Goes Away...
Nate Chinen has his own ideas on how the Recording Academy can cut down on the number of awards
05/02/11 The Gig
Nate Chinen: The Smithsonian Box, Continued
JT columnist weighs in further on JAZZ: The Smithsonian Anthology
May 2011 The Gig
Canon Fodder
“ The Smithsonian Collection is a sketch, a beginner’s library of jazz history,” reads an introductory note in the booklet for The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz , first issued in 1973. “Necessarily, there are many worthy figures and groups left...
April 2011 The Gig
Post-Grammy Reflection
Esperanza Spalding seemed as shocked as everyone else when she won Best New Artist at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 13. Hands clutching her heart, a million-watt smile lighting up her face, she looked positively breathless for a moment, though she...
03/21/11 Features
Kurt Elling: What Makes a Jazz Singer
Since debuting on Blue Note in 1995, Kurt Elling has earned a reputation as one of the preeminent jazz singers of our time. Now based in New York City, Elling details his ascent, responds to his detractors, and sets out to define the slippery parameters...
March 2011 The Gig
The Blue Egg
Nate Chinen muses on the unique appeal of the small neighborhood jazz club
01/03/11 Features
Danilo Pérez: Charting the Possibilities
On Providencia, pianist and composer Danilo Perez returns to the ambitious work he undertook a decade ago: charting a modern, heady course across cultures, traditions and generations
January/February 2011 The Gig
2010: The Year in Gigs
Nate Chinen reflects on the most memorable performances he saw during the year
December 2010 The Gig
What Is Jazz Singing, Anyway?
Nate Chinen muses on the current state of jazz vocals
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JT columnist Nate Chinen, who also regularly contributes to the New York Times, is one of jazz journalism’s brightest young talents. For the past three years he has won the Jazz Journalists Association’s Helen Dance-Robert Palmer Award for excellence in writing. He also won the Association’s Best Book About Jazz Award in 2004 for his work with George Wein on the memoir Myself Among Others: A Life in Music.