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- sriram gopal (DCist)
Words: jazz, music, band, musicians, saxophonist
Topics: Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, New York, John Coltrane, New Orleans
- nate chinen (The New York Times)
Words: jazz, music, mr, band, song
Topics: Thelonious Monk, Brooklyn, New York, Paul Motian, Wynton Marsalis
- will layman (PopMatters)
Words: jazz, music, band, song, sound
Topics: Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Wynton Marsalis, John Coltrane, Paul Motian
- j.d. considine (Globe and Mail)
Words: jazz, music, band, musicians, song
Topics: Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock, John Coltrane, Miles Davis
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Articles Written by: BEN RATLIFF
The multimedia orchestral-rock song cycle “The Long Count” is theoretically about the prehistory of time, ballgames and twins. Practically, it’s about a semipopular indie-rock band with some contemporary classical-music experience not embarrassing ...
In a version of Don Henley’s “Boys of Summer” on Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden, the country star Brad Paisley started his last and longest guitar solo of the night. He took long steps toward stage right, scurried down a ramp and ambled down ...
Stefon Harris stood before a vibraphone and a marimba on Thursday night at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, the instruments positioned at right angles. That’s unusual in general, if usual for him. But the red keytar sitting on the side of the stage had a ...
R. Kelly was aiming to have a new album, “Untitled” (Jive), out by now. Its release has been postponed until Dec. 1, but the dates for his Ladies Make Some Noise! tour stayed fixed, and the delay of the record either freed or forced him to put more ...
Let’s say goodbye forever to an old jazz myth: Thelonious Monk as inexplicable mad genius.
Thelonious Monk, backstage at the Village Gate in 1962.
Monk, on keyboard, with the saxophonist Charlie Rouse in an undated photo. Throughout much of his music ...
The Australian pop singer Kylie Minogue has been a very big banana in other parts of the world since the late 1980s. On Tuesday, at the Hammerstein Ballroom, she played the final date of what was, unbelievably, her first-ever North American tour. The ...
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The jazz singer Fay Victor. Her new record is The FreeSong Suite.
Coati Mundi, a k a Andy Hernandez, who has returned to ...
Meshell Ndegeocello sat down at center stage on a drummer’s stool several times during her show at the Highline Ballroom on Tuesday. The words to her songs make a blood sport out of honesty; getting closer to the crowd’s level gives her a break from ...
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A definition of righteousness: about 75 people, crammed into the West Village club Smalls, watching a series of pianists play James P. Johnson on a grand piano in a benefit concert to buy a headstone for his grave.
Aaron Diehl performing in front of a ...
It could be argued that the practice of jazz in the last 10 years has been more original than at any time in the past. By original I don’t mean unprecedented; that’s a word for publicists, not musicians. I mean newly composed, rather than covering old ...
