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We know it can be hard to shop for the jazz fan in your life. Especially in this day and age — when so much of our music arrives in digital form, or…
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In Deep Dive, historian Lewis Porter balances a few different visions of George Shearing: the genteel melodist, the ecstatic bebop wiz, and the passionate Latin-jazz artist.
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John Coltrane’s momentous affiliation with Miles Davis was drawing to a close in March of 1960, when he agreed (with some reluctance) to embark on a…
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WBGO's Nate Chinen chats with jazz historian, musician, author and University of Rutgers-Newark Professor Dr. Lewis Porter about the various versions of…
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Over the last several years, one success story in the so-called vinyl boom has been an independent company called Vinyl Me, Please. Founded in 2013, it…
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Tommy LiPuma, who died on Monday at 80, was a record producer with a golden touch, and a track record virtually unmatched in his field. LiPuma was honored…
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For tens of millions in the Northeast, the name of the hour is “Stella” — as in Winter Storm Stella, the Weather Channel-branded nor'easter now bringing…
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Jimmy Cobb, the incomparable hard-bop drummer, died on Sunday at 91.In his honor, here is the first installment of Take Five, compiled in celebration of…
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It's been said that Miles Davis is to jazz is like Hemingway is to the American novel, like Picasso is to art. He was more than just a trumpet player — he…
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Originally published April 1, 2016.WBGO's Alexandra Hill chats with Miles' son Erin Davis as well as his nephew Vince Wilburn Jr. about the near decade…