MUSIC
WEDNESDAY - SATURDAY, AUGUST 21 - 24, 2019
8:30 PM

Matana Roberts Residency
The Stone at the New School
Glass Box Theater, The New School
55 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan

$20
http://thestonenyc.com/calendar.php

Avant-gutbucket conceptualist (and mean saxperson) Matana Roberts is a huge personal fave of Your Compiler. Here, she plays a series of duets. Pride of place must go to Saturday's show with the great pianist Vijay Iyer, but the other nights' duo partners -- drummer Gerald Cleaver (with a style very congruent with Roberts' own), avant-shredder/singer-songwriter Ava Mendoza, and imaginative and fluent jazz guitarist Liberty Ellman -- are hardly to be scoffed at.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The former owners who made Babu Ji problematic are just staff at the restaurant's new location (so they can still see to the food without doing the alleged stuff that reportedly got them in trouble). While the current owners bring their own issues (at least for people who go to restaurants to eat rather than to bask in plasticity), the modernish Indian food (by way of Australia) is fine.