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- sriram gopal (DCist)
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Topics: Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, New York, John Coltrane, New Orleans
- nate chinen (The New York Times)
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Topics: Thelonious Monk, Brooklyn, New York, Paul Motian, Wynton Marsalis
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Topics: Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Wynton Marsalis, John Coltrane, Paul Motian
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Topics: Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock, John Coltrane, Miles Davis
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Articles Written by: BEN RATLIFF
“Doolittle,” a 1989 album by the Pixies, is an arty, violent, candy-striped record. It has surf music’s reverb serenity, backed by cool and steady-drip eighth-note rhythm patterns. Its singing comes in babbles, yells and coos, its lyrics in drownings, ...
Savion Glover, the tap dancer, has been performing this week at the Blue Note with four major figures in jazz. It’s all being recorded for video, but also for audio. Audio? Does that make sense? Would you want to listen to it?
Savion Glover, with Andy ...
Can we put to rest this Talmudic thing about band reunions? In the right circumstances, with the right people, they can be very, very good. Does it matter whether the band makes more records, whether it is still a going concern, whether it is part of ...
Black metal and doom metal are musical styles, but they are also modes of being. They’re body and brain and nature. That furious black-metal clog of screams, strums and beats is rain or wind or anxiety or catatonic excitement. That deep-frequency ...
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For all his importance as an originator of bossa nova, João Gilberto hasn’t written a lot of music. But all the adepts know ...
Dick Katz, a pianist, record producer, educator and writer whose knowledge of jazz from the stride-piano era to 1960s modernism made him a valuable presence on New York’s jazz scene for six decades, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 85.
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As the future of the Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals continues to unfold, its recorded past has suddenly been thrown open.
An audience at the 1959 Newport Jazz Festival.
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Vijay Iyer’s trio lights up through improvised, viruslike rhythms. It’s not a situation in which the drummer’s steady swing underpins whatever the pianist is doing; that did happen sometimes at the Jazz Standard on Friday, but it wasn’t where the ...
Stacy Rowles, a jazz trumpeter, fluegelhorn player and singer who had been active on the Los Angeles jazz scene since the 1980s, died on Oct. 27 at her home in Burbank, Calif. She was 54.
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“We’re Mount Eerie, from Anacortes, Washington,” said Phil Elverum, a compact, penitent-looking man with an electric guitar. His audience, on Sunday night at Le Poisson Rouge, cheered at him. “Yes,” he said. “Thank you. It’s a beautiful place.”
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