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A songbook interpreter with a smoky, subtle style, Carole Sloane had a career equally touched by good fortune and bad timing. She died on Jan. 23, of complications from a stroke.
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During its first in-person edition since the start of the pandemic era, the Winter Jazzfest found familiar purpose and renewed conviction in delirious overabundance.
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In a first-time collaboration, WRTI and WBGO have created a Fall Preview to cover the field, in a range of sounds and styles.
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As a supplement to WBGO's 2021 Fall Preview, Jazz United picks a half-dozen new releases we're excited about.
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WBGO has assembled 88 reasons for Feeling Good this fall: exciting new albums, fresh discoveries, returning festivals and more.
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The musical fruits in our epic Fall Preview are now dropping to the public. The chief compiler of that undertaking, WBGO editorial director Nate Chinen,…
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At one point in the process of compiling WBGO’s 2020 Fall Preview, I realized that a handful of this season’s most anticipated albums amount to More of…
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The world ground to a halt, but the music kept coming.That’s an oversimplification, of course, and perhaps a bit misleading. But it’s also a reasonable…
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Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?Jacky Terrasson would surely answer that prompt with a grin. A jazz pianist who emerged in the…
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What does our music sound like now?We mean “now” as in right now — fall of 2019? There’s no simple answer to that question, but The Checkout is here to…