With her soulful, cigarette-tinged contralto and emotive “bossa-jazz” stylings, she mesmerized audiences and critics alike.
Category: Jazz
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Secret No More: Louis Armstrong Center Amplifies Satchmo’s Vision
New jazz and exhibition spaces, and an inaugural show curated by Jason Moran, feature the trumpeter’s “wonderful world” in full, collaged onto the walls.
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Why Nina Simone Was Always Ahead of Her Time
A recently unearthed live version of “Blues for Mama,” written by Simone and Abbey Lincoln in the 1960s, took on domestic abuse in a momentous way.
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5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Miles Davis’s Electric Period
Navigate the trumpeter’s snaky, endless grooves with picks from Flying Lotus, Cindy Blackman Santana and Terence Blanchard, among other musicians, writers and critics.
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A Trumpeter Stretches Past the Bounds of Jazz
Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah’s new album, “Bark Out Thunder Roar Out Lightning,” is his first on which he doesn’t touch the trumpet. Instead, he extends the legacy of Black masking Indians in New Orleans.
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A Thrilling, Rediscovered Nina Simone Set, and 9 More New Songs
Hear tracks by Snoh Aalegra, DeYarmond Edison, Explosions in the Sky and others.
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João Donato, Innovative Brazilian Musician, Is Dead at 88
A prolific pianist, composer and arranger who began recording in the 1950s, he was a pioneer of bossa nova but didn’t confine himself to any genre.
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The Amiable, Unswerving Tony Bennett
In an 80-year career, he stuck with one mission: illuminating songs he cherished.
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Peter Nero, Pianist Who Straddled Genres, Is Dead at 89
He soared to popularity with a swinging hybrid of classics and jazz. He later conducted the Philly Pops, often with one hand while the other played piano.
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Taylor Swift Revises a Lyric on ‘Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)’
Hear tracks by Prince, Rauw Alejandro, First Aid Kit and others.
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Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Avant-Garde Jazz
This challenging subgenre, including the subset of free jazz, is driven by the fire of spontaneity, and its rules are still being written. Eleven writers, critics and musicians share their favorites.
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Peter Brötzmann, 82, Dies; His Thunderous Saxophone Shook Jazz Traditions
One of Europe’s most influential free-jazz musicians, he played with “a kind of scream” to exorcise his demons, and those of German history.