As black Americans fought for equal rights in the 1960s, music reflected their calls to action. In...
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On June 4, the iconoclastic composer, esteemed academic/pedagogical luminary, and free-jazz firebrand Anthony Braxton turned 75 years...
My New Yorker Culture Desk essay “Think of Monk” is a well-edited aerial view. What follows is a ramble...
1930: The Orquesta Típica is out and the Conjunto is in The year 1930 marked a turning...
Musician, arranger, bandleader and soon-to-be-professor Peter Welker spent more than 50 years embodying the spirit of jazz...
Jimmy Cobb, the incomparable hard-bop drummer, died on Sunday at 91. In his honor, here is the first...
