Life After the Death of Jazz
The sound you hear over the bellyaching of purists is jazz’s fresh new blend
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Addicted to Dylan
How many songs can one fan download before the music blows his mind?
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Bluing Green
“The problem with jazz is miscegenation”? Say I want purity, to be pure black, Coloured to purge every bit of whiteness From my innards, my psyche, my senses, So that, …
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The Lion in Winter
Zimbabwe’s greatest living musician in a minor key
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String Theory
As a classical violinist I have learned,
over many years, that great music performances are
more than a matter of physics and technique.
The Genius of Django
At a gypsy-jazz festival in tiny Samois-sur-Seine fifty years after Django Reinhardt’s death, his music is kept alive by the romance of a few
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