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The musical community absorbed some devastating news this week, when Keith Jarrett revealed that he may never return to public performance.Speaking with…
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By the early 1960s, Ella Fitzgerald was an established international artist, beginning to reap the fruits of a 25-year career.Onstage, her perfect…
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It’s never a bad time to talk about Thelonious Monk. His indomitable music and incorruptible example serve as a renewable resource, because there’s always…
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Right about now, in any other year, many of us would be gearing up for a trip to Newport, R.I.This year, of course, is different. The Newport Jazz…
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Charles Tolliver has lived his share of jazz history. As a fiery young sideman with Jackie McLean and Max Roach in the 1960s, he joined a lineage of…
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Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, we’ve been sorely missing live music. But in at least one sense, we haven’t lost the experience of real-time…
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This past February — before the phrase “social distancing” had entered our lexicon — the two of us, Greg Bryant and Nate Chinen, got together to hear some…