Jazz – Page 46

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.

By Melena Ryzik

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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.

By Salamishah Tillet

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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.

By Giovanni Russonello

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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.

By Giovanni Russonello