Nate Chinen
Nate’s Contributions
November 2010 The Gig
Drummers with a Capital D
Nate Chinen confesses to his lifelong addiction to drums
October 2010 The Gig
NEA's Jazz Masters Mistake
Nate Chinen argues against awarding all of Marsalis jazz family a NEA Jazz Master award
September 2010 The Gig
Why JazzTimes Matters
Nate Chinen on the unique contributions of the print media to the jazz community
May 2010 Features
Christian Scott: Great Scott
Bold, brash and already delivering on serious promise, Christian Scott embodies New Orleans’ illustrious trumpet tradition while struggling against it.
04/06/10 Columns
Figs & Stones
Are you a mossy stone? Nate Chinen defines jazz's new reactionary camp
December 2009 The Gig
Kurt Elling: Man in the Air
Nate Chinen makes the argument that Kurt Elling is the most influential jazz vocalist of our time
November 2009 Features
Matt Wilson: Living History
How drummer and funnyman Matt Wilson blended various eras of jazz drumming into a style worth its own historical weight.
10/01/09 Features
Nels Cline: Guitar Anti-Hero
Equally effective in free improvisation and one of rock’s most important bands, Nels Cline defines a new six-string ideal.
October 2009 The Gig
Newport's Patron Saint: George Wein
Columnist Nate Chinen on the revival of Jazz at Newport by its original founder George Wein.
May 2009 The Gig
Steady Gigs, Late Shows
Conan O’Brien looked determined. “Get out of the way!” he barked, barreling toward the bandstand with a sledgehammer. Richie Rosenberg—a.k.a. LaBamba, the fedora-topped trombonist in the Max Weinberg 7—hopped to one side, startled, as his upholstered music...
March 2009 The Gig
The Year of the Woman?
Players like Esperanza Spalding and Mary Halvorson are making a big splash
January/February 2009 The Gig
Back to the Future: 2008 in Gigs
Tradition and innovation have never really been at odds in jazz, despite whatever the history books say. More often, the two forces have been deeply entwined, redefining each other in a vital and perpetual exchange. Trombonist and composer George Lewis reminded...
December 2008 The Gig
Jazz in Hard Times
In the annals of recorded music, there may not be a more exuberant three-minute salvo than “Shoe Shine Boy,” one of a handful of sides made by the entity of Jones-Smith, Incorporated. Opening with a spring-loaded piano intro by Count Basie, it rides an irresistible...
November 2008 The Gig
Facebooking You
A few months ago, after much halfhearted resistance and some full-hearted reluctance, I took a deep breath, crossed my fingers and made the plunge. I joined Facebook, the increasingly ubiquitous online social networking Web site. Since then, I have bonded...
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ReportAbout Nate Chinen
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.