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Songs of Whitman: jazz pianist Fred Hersch crowns a lifetime of achievement with Leaves of Grass, an evening-long composition based on the poetry of protoqueer
"I've been dogged by my musical choices," says jazz pianist and composer Fred Hersch. "Yes, I chose to play Billy Strayhorn and Cole Porter, who were ......(Continue Reading) Anything goes: Richard Cook welcomes a crop of hot young singers who are stealing the show - jazz
For what seemed like decades, jazz singers had to play out their performing lives in a curious kind of ghetto. Caught in a limbo between art music and ......(Continue Reading)Duke Robillard: Blue Mood: the Songs of T-Bone Walker
DUKE ROBILLARD Blue Mood: The Songs of T-Bone Walker Stony Plain 1300 All around modern bluesman (ex-Roomful of Blues and Fabulous Thunderbirds) Robillard ......(Continue Reading)Cassandra Wilson: bringing jazz back home - The Mix: music movies theater sports dance art people books - Brief Article
"There was a time when jazz was really reflective of your daily lives and struggles," remembers jazz vocalist Cassandra Wilson. "So much of jazz is ivory-tower fare now. It has, in a sense, removed...(Continue Reading)Diana Krall: carrying the torch for crooners of yore, jazz's beguiling leading lady looks inside and ahead
With her smooth, smoky renditions of jazz standards by the likes of Duke Ellington and Irving Berlin, Diana Krall has for years been the unheralded voice of a generation--albeit one that came of ag...(Continue Reading)
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