At Iridium, “Music by The Doors” is presented as a jazz-leaning live set that reframes a familiar rock catalog through improvisation. Featured performers Escaper and The Doors share the bill, drawing on the band’s songcraft while shifting the emphasis to rhythm, harmony, and solo space. In New York, where reinterpretation is a working tradition across clubs and theater stages, this kind of repertoire-crossing carries cultural weight even without a documented NYC premiere history. The strongest moments tend to come when the arrangements risk deviation rather than reverence.