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Category: Jazz
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After Viral Beef, Robert Glasper Returns to the Blue Note
Mounting his fifth annual residency at the Blue Note (after a viral beef at the Grammys), the pianist, producer and composer is hungry for a challenge.
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5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Sarah Vaughan
All it might take is a second and a half of hearing her sing to make your spine tingle or your heart drop. Opera singers, jazz vocalists, writers and Vaughan’s biographer share their favorites.
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I Started Playing My Sax Outdoors. Then the Fans Came.
When your rehearsal space is the bank of the Hudson, the audience is a bit unconventional.
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How Sam Rivers and Studio Rivbea Supercharged ’70s Jazz in New York
The East Village venue wasn’t just a performance space — it was Rivers’s home. On the saxophonist’s centennial, Jason Moran and other artists celebrate his legacy.
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Charles Gayle, Saxophonist of Fire and Brimstone, Dies at 84
An intense and uncompromising player, he made music that one critic said was more about “motion and spirit” than tonal centers, rhythms and melodies.
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Bobby Schiffman, Guiding Force of the Apollo Theater, Dies at 94
Taking over for his father in 1961, he transformed a former vaudeville house in Harlem into a pre-eminent R&B showcase.
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Maren Morris Revels in a Fresh Start, and 10 More New Songs
Hear tracks by Cat Power, Chris Stapleton, Loraine James and others.
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How Pharoah Sanders Beckoned the Gods on the Intimate ‘Pharoah’
The three-song 1976 recording arrives in a new boxed set at what seems a perfect moment to deepen our appreciation for the saxophonist’s role in music history.
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Curtis Fowlkes, Avant-Jazz Pioneer of the 1980s, Dies at 73
A founder of the acclaimed Jazz Passengers, he was also a sought-after sideman who played trombone for both jazz and rock heavyweights.
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Ambrose Akinmusire Learned to Let Go (With Help From Joni Mitchell)
The trumpeter will release “Owl Song,” a spare new album, this fall as he takes on a new role as artistic director of the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz.