Guitarist Mary Halvorson Makes Music ‘Sort of Based in Jazz’

Mary Halvorson gets more coverage of her show tonight in Brooklyn.

Ms. Halvorson, 28, has built a name as a guitarist in new-music circles, largely through an association with the celebrated multireedist and composer Anthony Braxton. And she has proved herself a judicious composer, in the duo with Ms. Pavone and in People, a willfully eccentric rock band.

“Mary’s reputation among musicians is beyond stellar,” said Taylor Ho Bynum, a cornetist and composer who features Ms. Halvorson in his sextet. “Whatever your personal aesthetic, you have to recognize the clarity of her ideas, her sound and her technique.”