The tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp reunites with the pianist and composer Dave Burrell on opening
ILLUSTRATION BY GAURAB THAKALI night of the Vision Festival, which takes place at Roulette, May 23-28.
NIGHT LIFE
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ROCK AND POPMusicians and night-club proprietors lead
complicated lives; it’s advisable to check
in advance to conirm engagements.
Laurent Garnier and François K
This sharp bill features two Paris-bred dance-music
mixers who paved the way for contemporary outits
like Daft Punk. Garnier, whose irst residency was at
the Manchester, England, club Haçienda in the late
eighties, helped spearhead the early-nineties Pari-
sian raves that set the tone for the city’s house-music
eruption. His long, rangy d.j. sets, which lit efort-
lessly between lavish vocals and brusque minimal-
ism, are some of dance music’s most storied; a 2013
set for Boiler Room, recorded at Amsterdam’s famed
Dekmantel Festival, has received nearly four mil-
lion YouTube views. François K (for Kevorkian),
who co-founded the afternoon party Body & Soul
(still a going concern), had an even longer head start,
though an ocean away. After moving to New York,
in 1975, he was soon spinning disco and remixing
dance records, spending much of the eighties work-
ing on tracks for the likes of Mick Jagger and Diana
Ross. He’s been back at the decks exclusively since
1990, concentrating on the looser grooves of pre-
rave dance music. With the passing of David Man-
cuso, the founder of the inluential disco the Loft,
François K may be our most vital link between the
E.D.M. present and the disco past. (Output, 74 Wythe
Ave., Brooklyn. outputclub.com. May 26.)
Rostam
An eclectic multi-instrumentalist and singer whose
production credits include Charli XCX, Frank
Ocean, and Carly Rae Jepsen, Rostam Batman-
glij makes solo work that immediately identiies
him as a former member of Vampire Weekend, the
party band he co-founded with fellow Columbia
University undergrads in 2006. It’s not just the er-
udition on “Half-Light,” his 2017 début, that tells
the tale. (The single “Bike Dream” has him reading
this magazine while eying a love interest’s painting
of Antarctica.) In the Iranian-American’s solo it-
eration, there are still plenty of diverse “riddims,”
but he goes for a type of grandeur akin to Bach
or Brian Wilson, in contrast to his former mates’
jumpy, multicultural immediacy. His songs are
about personal vulnerabilities, boy-chasing, and
being chased, with a vibrant dimension that some
might interpret as a by-product of his relocation
from N.Y.C. to L.A. (Brooklyn Steel, 319 Frost St.,
Brooklyn. 888-929-7849. May 24.)
TDE Championship Tour with
Kendrick Lamar
Lamar was a ifteen-year-old kid from Compton
with a hot local mixtape when he met Anthony Tif-
ith, a producer and hip-hop impresario in neigh-
boring Carson, California, whose nickname graced
a label, Top Dawg Entertainment. Fourteen years
later, the two men have a number of reasons to bill
the TDE tour as a victory lap. Not only is Lamar
one of the most recognized rappers on the planet
(with a fresh Pulitzer Prize under his belt), but his
current road show gathers much of the talent that
he molded into a cohesive entity for the soundtrack
of “Black Panther,” the highest-grossing movie of
the year to date. That means that before Lamarmakes it to the stage with his istful of hits—which
will no doubt extend back to his landmark albums
“good kid, m.A.A.d city” and “To Pimp a Butter-
ly”—there’ll be sets by the rough-and-ready m.c.
Schoolboy Q and the rising-star soulstress SZA, plus
cameos by several other TDE labelmates, includ-
ing Ab-Soul, Jay Rock, SiR, and Lance Skiiwalker.
(Madison Square Garden, Seventh Ave. at 33rd St.
800-745-3000. May 29.)
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JAZZ AND STANDARDS
Sullivan Fortner
When you’re an on-the-rise musician like the prom-
ising post-bop pianist Fortner, it never hurts to
surround yourself with friends with clout. Add-
ing muscle to his trio, the New Orleans-bred mu-
sician welcomes, on successive nights, the trumpet-
ers Roy Hargrove, Ambrose Akinmusire, and Peter
Evans and the saxophonist Melissa Aldana. It’s an
advance party for “Moments Preserved,” Fortner’s
new album, which will be released on June 1. (Jazz
Standard, 116 E. 27th St. 212-576-2232. May 24-27.)
Guillermo Klein y los Guachos
Ahead of the curve in the nineteen-nineties, when
he initially convened his own large ensembles, this
ambitious composer, arranger, pianist, and vocalist
continues to thwart big-band conventions. Klein’s
music delights in shifting time signatures, rich to-
nalities, and arresting multicultural inluences, at-
tracting some of the most farsighted improvisers
around, including Miguel Zenon, Ben Monder, and
Taylor Haskins. (Village Vanguard, 178 Seventh Ave.
S., at 11th St. 212-255-4037. May 22-27.)
Christian McBride, Brian Marsella, and
Anwar Marshall Play the Music of Hasaan
Already billed as “legendary” on the sole album
he recorded, in 1964, the pianist Hasaan Ibn Aliwas an uncompromising musician from Phila-
delphia who was esteemed enough to comman-
deer a thorny trio session featuring the brilliant
drummer Max Roach. Another Philly scion, the
super bassist McBride, joins the pianist Marsella
and the drummer Marshall to call attention to
this ever-mysterious improviser and composer.
(The Stone at the New School, 55 W. 13th St. the-
stonenyc.com. May 24.)
Leslie Pintchik Trio
A crafty, lyrically minded pianist, a compelling
composer, and an inventive interpreter of stan-
dards, Pintchik also knows what constitutes a
killer album title. “You Eat My Food, You Drink
My Wine, You Steal My Girl” features her sea-
soned trio, which includes the bassist Scott Hardy
and the drummer Michael Sarin, who also appear
at this CD-release event. (Jazz at Kitano, 66 Park
Ave., at 38th St. 212-885-7119. May 23.)
Rene Marie
Feisty and outspoken, Marie is no walllower of a
performer—electrifying a room is all in a night’s
work for her. Although her 2013 tribute to an ear-
lier musical and social sparkplug, “I Wanna Be
Evil: With Love to Eartha Kitt,” garnered con-
siderable attention, “Sound of Red,” Marie’s most
recent recording, is a decidedly personal project
ofering original songs that conirm her aversion
to stylistic pigeonholing. (Birdland, 315 W. 44th
St. 212-581-3080. May 24-26.)
Vision Festival
Moving across the river to Brooklyn once again,
the Vision Festival remains steadfast in its com-
mitment to exploratory jazz and the still active
pioneers of the genre; the wide-ranging roster in-
cludes Oliver Lake, Matthew Shipp, Roscoe Mitch-
ell, Mary Halvorson, Fay Victor, and the festival
co-organizer William Parker. This year, the in-
trepid showcase celebrates the pianist and com-
poser Dave Burrell, featured on opening night in
various ensembles, including a reunion with an-
other crucial free-jazz cohort, the saxophonist Ar-
chie Shepp. (Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn.
917-267-0363. May 23-28.)