1938, a young woman stands playing in the centre of the screen, confident and...
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Long before Bill Murray was making it a Suntory time, Davis brought VAN to...
The myth of jazz recordings is that they’re pure documents of what occurred in...
Awash in blues that blend into the sky on clear days, the mural of...
‘Central was like a river. A mighty river like the Amazon or the Nile,...
One day in the late Nineties, Dave Lombardo, the metal drumming powerhouse best known for...
As black Americans fought for equal rights in the 1960s, music reflected their calls...
On June 4, the iconoclastic composer, esteemed academic/pedagogical luminary, and free-jazz firebrand Anthony Braxton...
My New Yorker Culture Desk essay “Think of Monk” is a well-edited aerial view. What follows...
1930: The Orquesta Típica is out and the Conjunto is in The year 1930...
From Charlie Parker to Eddie Johnson, remembering jazz centenarians during a pandemic: Photos, Video
This was going to be a year of great jazz centennials. For 1920 marked...
A review of the book by Dafnis Prieto, entitled Rhythmic Synchronicity – Individual and...
