James Kaplan’s new book, “3 Shades of Blue,” examines the lives of Miles, John Coltrane and Bill Evans, and the…
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At 70, he is releasing his 18th album with the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble to celebrate the group’s 50th anniversary and…
Read More »A couple of weeks ago in The Times, a seasoned musician and composer proposed that George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue”…
Read More »Linda Sharrock, an avant-garde jazz musician who became aphasic after a 2009 stroke, has returned to the stage and inspired…
Read More »Dizzy Gillespie helped make Minton’s Playhouse famous. Minton’s in Harlem was where jazz musicians, from out-of-towners to locals performing in…
Read More »He released more than 50 albums but had his greatest commercial success with “Compared to What,” a recording that came…
Read More »Her music, which ranged from chamber miniatures to blaring fanfares, was suffused with a slyly subversive attitude.
Read More »Jahari Stampley, a 23-year-old pianist from Chicago, won the prize as the genre’s premier coronation ceremony for young talent was…
Read More »Mounting his fifth annual residency at the Blue Note (after a viral beef at the Grammys), the pianist, producer and…
Read More »The pharmaceutical industry is rife with tales of companies dreaming up ways to prolong their monopolies on lucrative drugs. They…
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