My friendship with Fred Moten spans a nation of Black music. Black improvised music...
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First things first: I hate almost all of Lou Reed’s music. The Velvet Underground, his solo stuff,...
There’s no clever setup this column can concoct to describe Tom Williams, who died...
My next two records would be for Gramavision, which had an important run of...
I first heard Gerald Cleaver playing with pianist Kris Davis at the Knitting Factory...
Ambrose Akinmusire takes the helm at the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Performance: Video, Photos
Ambrose Akinmusire was 25, a trumpeter and composer obviously on the rise, when he...
Tony Bennett, the American jazz singer who became the torchbearer for the Great American...
During his early Atlantic years, Ornette Coleman recorded a whole bunch of immortal music...
When Herbie Hancock moves his hands across a piano, the notes come and go...
Once regarded as jazz’s hot young iconoclast, David Murray suddenly finds himself a teacher...
“60 Years,” a compilation marking the 60th anniversary of his Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra,...
Ron was an American jazz trumpeter, cornetist, and composer. A beautiful, beautiful spirit on...
