What gives New Orleans music its singular sound and unmatched allure? Many films have addressed this…
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Maria Schneider doesn’t think up concepts for her albums. “I’ve never preconceived a subject for…
Standing on the tiny stage of Manhattan’s Zinc Bar in November, the dozen or so…
On a December afternoon in 2017, I gathered eight prominent musicians around a dining-room table…
Marcus Shelby started playing baseball as a 12-year-old boy. He loved the game, but once…
On a cold December night at Manhattan’s Jazz Gallery, drummer Kassa Overall, pianist Jon Batiste and bassist Ameen Saleem made music that was, by turns, hard-swinging, brooding, bluesy and abstract…
The high-ceilinged colonial house in Havana that Ramón Sabat converted into a recording studio while…