At the start of his new book, Ugly Beauty: Jazz in the 21st Century (Zero),……...
February 2022
Prelude
After 40 years of distance and silence, old friends and bandmates Paquito D’Rivera and Chucho……...
COVID-19 has presented one challenge after another to cultural institutions, and the Louis Armstrong House……...
Magazine Features
Azar Lawrence doesn’t recall specifically when and where this incident occurred, but the memory’s stuck……...
Since 1971, when his sweetly tantalizing bent-string lick on the Crusaders’ hit “Put It Where……...
The impact of jazz on the worlds of literature and poetry, both stylistically and as……...
Auditions
From the annals of jazz liaisons yet to be fully appreciated and documented comes this……...
Violins have been part of jazz since the early New Orleans days. But while string……...
Catalan drummer David Viñolas is a musical omnivore. Merging his early Western classical education with……...
Over three decades, the protean saxophonist Tony Malaby has shown himself adept at playing all……...
The pandemic pause gave Ethan Iverson an opening. An unusual break in the hectic touring……...