David Cale’s astonishing one-man show in Brooklyn erects some familiar signposts before swerving into the unexpected.

“I’ve been called a dime-store cowboy or a drugstore cowboy. A lot of the upper brass in Nashville back in the early 1970s, ...

Vince Bellon plugged his gold Gibson Les Paul into an amplifier at BlackRock Fine Wine and Craft Beer a recent Saturday before playing a show. Instrument cases lined the wall behind him. It was 8 p.m.

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Bebop, the jazz style, might’ve existed for decades before Cowboy Bebop the show, but let’s be real: In the universe of Shinichirō Watanabe’s iconic 1998 anime, one does not exist without the other.