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Thelonious Monk, the incomparably influential jazz composer and pianist, would have turned 100 today, and across the country, a healthy range of…
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An outsized number of jazz heavyweights call Houston and its surrounding area home — here, they speak of the situation down south and their concerns for its future.
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"I've got a pocketful of blues here still, you know?" says Charles Lloyd, the saxophonist-flutist-composer-bandleader who, at 79, has become one of jazz's…
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Saxophonist and flutist Charles Lloyd has led some rather spectacular bands over the years — from his heralded late-1960s quartet to the Marvels, his…
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Take Five this week turns out to be a celebration of working bands — from the Bandwagon, led for more than a dozen years by pianist Jason Moran, to…
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Georgia Anne Muldrow, the underground-R&B and astral-funk polymath, bears more than a passing admiration for Charles Mingus, the towering jazz bassist and…
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The Jason Moran/Robert Glasper Double Trio performs at 713->212: Houstonians in NYC. Recorded January 15, 2011 at 92YTribeca. Personnel:Jason Moran -…