Dizzy Gillespie helped make Minton’s Playhouse famous. Minton’s in Harlem was where jazz musicians, from out-of-towners to locals performing in…
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He released more than 50 albums but had his greatest commercial success with “Compared to What,” a recording that came…
Her music, which ranged from chamber miniatures to blaring fanfares, was suffused with a slyly subversive attitude.
Jahari Stampley, a 23-year-old pianist from Chicago, won the prize as the genre’s premier coronation ceremony for young talent was…
Mounting his fifth annual residency at the Blue Note (after a viral beef at the Grammys), the pianist, producer and…
The pharmaceutical industry is rife with tales of companies dreaming up ways to prolong their monopolies on lucrative drugs. They…
Westbrook, a nine-time All-Star, would head to Utah after not fitting smoothly with LeBron James and Anthony Davis. Minnesota’s D’Angelo…
We’ve done a lot of listening back. So where is jazz today? Writers and musicians including Sonny Rollins, Melanie Charles…
I have, over the transom, received the paperback edition of a book that escaped me last year, to my regret.…
Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong were A-list celebrities at the top of their art form. Today’s jazz…