Ten curated Scope NYC picks for Sunday, May 10.
A compact Lower East Side gallery stop with enough bite to make it worth building into a Sunday art loop.
Pioneer Works turns the afternoon into a broad Red Hook hang, useful if you want one destination rather than a dozen small stops.
A big, easy Sunday show at the Paramount, with the rare advantage of not eating the whole night.
A Rough Trade in-store is still one of the cleaner ways to make a music stop feel specific rather than generic.
Two sharp bandleaders in the Smalls early slot: direct, serious jazz without the late-night commitment.
Toshi Reagon taking on Bernice Johnson Reagon's songbook at Joe's Pub has more weight than the average Sunday concert pick.
Participant is the right setting for a title this charged: performance, politics, and downtown art context in one listing.
A strong album-release quartet at Close Up, with Kendrick Scott giving the set real pull for jazz people.
UnionDocs is usually best when the title sounds like a process as much as a screening; this one fits.
A clean Vanguard anchor for the night, especially if you want a drummer-led set with real contemporary-jazz gravity.