Alan Scherstuhl
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A Jazz Quintet Bubbling With Good Vibes? Meet the Women of Artemis.
The pianist Renee Rosnes formed the group in 2016, and it has evolved into a five-piece drawn from different nations and generations with a common...
A New Roy Hargrove LP Reminds Us What the Trumpeter Left Behind
“Grande-Terre,” recorded in Guadeloupe in 1997, shows off the high-wire, from-the-gut jazz Hargrove played most nights of his life.
Amiri Baraka’s ‘Blues People’ Comes Home to the Apollo
The trumpeter and composer Russell Gunn will premiere “The Blues and Its People,” a suite inspired by Baraka’s influential text, to mark its 60th anniversary.
Myra Melford Builds Anew With an All-Star, All-Woman Quintet
The pianist’s latest group fills its recent album “For the Love of Fire and Water” with idiosyncratic life.
Louis Armstrong’s Last Laugh
Private recordings, heard in the new documentary “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues,” add a further dimension to the artist.