My New Yorker Culture Desk essay “Think of Monk” is a well-edited aerial view. What follows...
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1930: The Orquesta Típica is out and the Conjunto is in The year 1930...
Musician, arranger, bandleader and soon-to-be-professor Peter Welker spent more than 50 years embodying the...
Jimmy Cobb, the incomparable hard-bop drummer, died on Sunday at 91. In his honor, here...
Today is Keith Jarrett’s birthday, but he’s the one bearing a gift. To be...
Ryo Kawasaki Death – The family of Ryo Kawasaki has announced the passing away...
After years as a relatively anonymous session musician, Mr. Pizzarelli, who has died of...
The partnership between the British saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings and a group of South African...
Not many small groups were working harder in the late 1950s, to greater acclaim,...
Sonny Rollins is, by any reasonable estimation, a genius. He is jazz’s greatest living...
McCoy Tyner, who died on Friday at 81, has been a steadfast presence on the...
Miles Davis led such a prismatic and changeable career that any attempt at summation...
