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June 5, 2020
Jo Livingstone
The Radically Inclusive Music of Ornette Coleman
A new book about the free jazz pioneer illuminates the moral and political significance of the postwar avant-garde.
April 21, 2020
Jo Livingstone
Fiona Apple Gets Free
"Fetch the Bolt Cutters," her first record since 2012, is a lesson in escaping other people’s expectations.
August 27, 2015
Jamil Smith
The Griot of New Orleans
Jazz musician Terence Blanchard tells the story of his hometown ten years after Hurricane Katrina
June 17, 2015
Michael J. Agovino
Ornette Coleman, the Saxophonist Who Transformed Jazz
March 6, 2015
David Hajdu
Tearing Up the Pop Charts
If popular music is escapist fun, why are the songs so sad?
August 29, 2013
The New Republic Staff
From the Video Vault: Charlie Parker Plays with Dizzy Gillespie
Video is available for this article
July 4, 2013
David Hajdu
The Post-Jazz Jazz of John Hollenbeck
A lyrical experimentalist
February 13, 2013
David Hajdu
R.I.P. Donald Byrd, Master Source of Jazzy Hip-Hop Samples
November 26, 2011
David Hajdu
The Cotton Club Parade Marches Backward
October 8, 2004
Albert Murray
Jazz: Notes Toward a Definition
November 22, 1999
Albert Murray
Jazz Lips: On Louis Armstrong
July 6, 1974
Bruce Cook
Duke Ellington: Master of the American Musical Idiom
December 1, 1947
Charles Miller
Jazz: Records
A review of the Duke Ellington's new recordings from 1947

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