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The Archives

Betty Carter: The 'In' Singer
Published 7/28/1966
One person's jazz singer can be another's Robert Goulet. In a sense,this is a problem that has bedev …  More…

Django Reinhardt:
The Magnificent Gypsy

Published 7/14/1966
Genius in jazz evidences itself in two ways: in an artist whose innovations set the style of an era …  More…

Herbie Hancock And Quincy Jones:
Talkin' 'Bout The Music Of These Times

Published 1/1/1990
When Down Beat thought to pair up Herbie Hancock and Quincy Jones for the kickoff issue of a new yea …  More…

Fred Anderson: Inspirational Motivation
Published 9/1/2009
Free-form saxophonist and barnacle-fast Chicago club owner Fred Anderson — “the lone prophet o …  More…



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Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie emerged in the middle 1940s as essentially the last in a series of symbolic progressions of virtuosity in jazz that culminated in the consolidation of bebop. …  More…

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