Perfect Album: Newport Message
Over three days in May 1958, Maynard Ferguson’s band was in New York to record an album for Roulette. The result was A...

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The Artistry of… Bill Charlap
The Artistry of… series is sponsored by the Alzheimer Society Music Project. If the just-around-the-corner, suddenly-romance-beauty-adventure-playfulness, take-a chance-on-me-ness of New York City came alive...

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The Artistry of… Jonathan Kreisberg
The Artistry of… series is sponsored by the Alzheimer Society Music Project. A New Yorker by birth, the guitar player, composer and...

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Roy Hargrove Tribute Garners a Capacity Crowd at Jazz at Lincoln Centre
This is Earfood, a new column from arts writer Ashante Infantry that aims to nourish, and satisfy, your sonic curiosity. Earfood explores the ingredients of...

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The Artistry of… Russ Little
AO Russ Little The music making has a stamp of Canadiana all over it and proudly so. He has shared his artistic...

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How 1959 became jazz’s annus mirabilis
Coltrane, Miles, Brubeck, Mingus and newcomer Ornette Coleman were all at their creative peaks, each pushing jazz into new futures....

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