Ten curated Scope NYC picks for Saturday, April 25.
Wayne Koestenbaum and Douglas Kearney at Artists Space is exactly the kind of downtown literary bill that fills up with people worth overhearing.
A 6 PM Massey Klein opening is a clean way to start the night if you want contemporary art with some bite instead of a museum lap.
House of Yes is one of the few places where a title this blunt can actually deliver on it.
This has more occasion than the average jazz set, and Dizzy's is a good perch for a bill with this much lineage in it.
José González in Brooklyn Steel splits the difference between a singalong and a genuinely attentive room, which is not easy on a Saturday.
Baby's All Right is the right size for Big Special's sneering live charge, which should land harder here than it would in a cleaner room.
Kronos doing a specific Carnegie Hall program is a stronger play than the usual prestige-calendar default.
Paul F. Tompkins can make a variety show feel both meticulously built and loose in the right ways, and Bell House is built for that.
Metrograph getting this on a Saturday night gives the movie slot real weight, not just repertory wallpaper.
Brad Mehldau at the Vanguard is the sort of Saturday booking that makes a West Village plan feel automatic.