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Sometimes a theme emerges by chance, revealing itself in the moment. That’s true of this week’s installment of Take Five, featuring new music by a range…

Whatever else you have going on, you should hear some live music this week.If you're in the greater New York City area, try these suggestions: five tracks…

Myra Melford’s Snowy Egret, “Motion Stop Frame”Pianist and composer Myra Melford has long been a study in motion, creating and collaborating across a…

Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band, “Somewhere”Leonard Bernstein’s progressive musical West Side Story is having a moment. Steven Spielberg has been…

Roswell Rudd, a trombonist whose jubilant blare and yawping wit made him a singular fixture in the jazz avant-garde — as a bandleader, a member of The New…

Dizzy Gillespie, “Long Long Summer”I listened to hours and hours of Dizzy Gillespie over the weekend — not an unprecedented act, though it carried a…

Ira Gitler, a passionate critic and proponent of modern jazz during its rise, and a tireless chronicler of its history thereafter, died on Saturday at a…

Along with the latest by the Anat Fort Trio and Sam Newsome — and a 20-year-old stunner from Paul Bley, Gary Peacock and Paul Motian.Michel Camilo, “Mano…

Along with a standards album by Becca Stevens and a trio session led by saxophonist Ivo Perelman.Miguel Zenón and Luis Perdomo, “La Vida Es Un Sueño”Alto…

Jon Batiste, “WE ARE”Last Friday, pianist and Late Show bandleader Jon Batiste led his second protest march under the banner “WE ARE,” moving the action…