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Jazz’s Hancock Competition Returns, Crowning an Electrifying Rising Star

Jahari Stampley, a 23-year-old pianist from Chicago, won the prize as the genre’s premier coronation ceremony for young talent was…

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Robert Glasper Leans Into the Drama

Mounting his fifth annual residency at the Blue Note (after a viral beef at the Grammys), the pianist, producer and…

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A Drug Company Exploited a Safety Requirement to Make Money

The pharmaceutical industry is rife with tales of companies dreaming up ways to prolong their monopolies on lucrative drugs. They…

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Lakers Agree to Trade Russell Westbrook in a Three-Team Deal

Westbrook, a nine-time All-Star, would head to Utah after not fitting smoothly with LeBron James and Anthony Davis. Minnesota’s D’Angelo…

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Five Minutes That Will Make You Love 21st-Century Jazz

We’ve done a lot of listening back. So where is jazz today? Writers and musicians including Sonny Rollins, Melanie Charles…

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The Black Musical That May Have Inspired Gershwin

I have, over the transom, received the paperback edition of a book that escaped me last year, to my regret.…

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5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Vocals

Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong were A-list celebrities at the top of their art form. Today’s jazz…

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Best Jazz Albums of 2022

In a year of growth and reflection, the music stretched and relocated in often unpredictable ways.

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A Posthumous Solo Album Reveals a Jazz Star’s Melancholy

Following the death of Esbjörn Svensson, a pianist and one of Europe’s most influential jazz musicians, in a scuba diving…

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