Matt Wilson’s Arts and Crafts Shows Attitude, Gratitude on Tour
5/15/2012


Jazz Musicians, Friends to Celebrate the Life of Phoebe Jacobs
5/15/2012


Nothing But the Truth: Ran Blake Pays Tribute to Abbey Lincoln
5/15/2012


Meters Reconvene for NOLA Club Date
5/14/2012


Jazz en Rafale: Bass Fest Embraces Roots
5/14/2012


Tritone Jazz Campers Learn from the Pros
5/9/2012


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Herbie Hancock (Photo: Michael Weintrob)

Hancock, U.N. Enlist Global Musicians to Celebrate International Jazz Day

In November 2011, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) formally recognized jazz as a dynamic force for promoting peace, embra …  
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REVIEWS EDITORS’ PICKS    MAY 2012


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ARCHIVES CLASSIC INTERVIEW


‘I’ll Never Sing With A Dance Band Again’
Published 11/1/1939

Billie for the First Time Tells Why She Left Shaw & Basie: “Too Many Bad Kicks”

Chicago—You sit with Billie Holiday and watch her smoke cigarettes chain fashion. The first thing that strikes you is her frankness.

“I’ll never …  
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Fat Cats at Lunch: An Interview with Dizzy Gillespie
Published 5/11/1972

Dizzy Gillespie hardly requires an introduction. We spoke during his nightly-packed, eight-day stand at Gourmet Rendezvous in St. Louis. We had lunch at Kemoll’s: Dizzy with beef tips and noodles, me with pepperoni-stuffed calzoni, both of us fatties …  
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Charlie Christian Dies in New York
Published 3/15/1942

New York—Musicians here are mourning the sudden, unexpected death of young Charlie Christian, who died of tuberculosis March 2 while a patient at the Seaview Hospital on Staten Island. The bespectacled, personable Christian succumbed a few days …  
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