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Baby boomers are purchasing more CDs than ever -- but not jazz or classical. Can these genres survive in an increasingly bottom-line business?
By Eric Boehlert
July 6, 2000
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Bossa nova veteran Joco Gilberto -- with just guitar, voice and the songs of Brazil -- still swings harder than most.
By Michael Ullman
June 28, 2000
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Sponsored by the Knitting Factory, Ornette Coleman, Sonic Youth, Stereolab, Cecil Taylor and others look beyond bop.
By Seth Mnookin
June 7, 2000
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Saxophonist Joe Lovano delivers a loving tribute to 52nd Street, "the street that never slept."
By Michael Ullman
June 6, 2000
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Downtown jazz pianist Matthew Shipp takes the A train.
By Seth Mnookin
May 16, 2000
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Three kings -- Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderly -- rip through six CDs of the most ravishing jazz ever played.
By Michael Ullman
May 3, 2000
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On a magisterial five-CD reissue, legendary saxophonist Sonny Rollins explodes modern jazz.
By Michael Ullman
April 21, 2000
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Young-lion jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman steps up to roar on "Beyond."
By Philip Booth
April 19, 2000
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Herbie Hancock's "Future Shock" annoyed the critics and offended the purists in 1983, but the new reissue just sounds like a Bill Laswell record that spawned an unfortunate series of fusion projects.
By Geoff Edgers
February 10, 2000
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On "Trio 99>00," Pat Metheny's stipped-down outfit rips and soars above off-the-metronome grooves.
By Mike Britten
February 7, 2000
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Teri Thornton went from the "greatest voice since Ella Fitzgerald" to a nobody and back. When will she get her own VH1 special?
By Angela Starita
February 1, 2000
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New Orleans boogie king Dr. John botches an album of standards. Duke Ellington would not be amused.
By Seth Mnookin
January 28, 2000
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A new box set of lesser-known Django Reinhardt cuts illuminates another side of the hottest jazz guitarist in the world.
By Seth Mnookin
December 21, 1999
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Rising star Samantha Morton shines in this charming, finely crafted film from Woody Allen.
By Stephanie Zacharek
December 3, 1999
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Steeped in Crescent City musical voodoo, Los Hombres Calientes reconfigure jazz in the city where it was born.
By Philip Booth
November 16, 1999
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A top-notch biography celebrates the jazz piano genius who gained his greatest fame as a pop singer.
By Greg Villepique
November 12, 1999
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Benny Goodman believed in great jazz players, no matter their color. A live 1938 double CD captures one of the ambassador's finest moments.
By Geoff Edgers
November 10, 1999
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Young men once fretted over sculpting the future, not whether they were going to get a sweaty power-handshake. What happened?
By Cintra Wilson
October 28, 1999
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Bryan Ferry retreats from the ignominy of contemporary pop with a set of smoky standards.
By Michelle Goldberg
October 18, 1999
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Wynton Marsalis was born with a silver trumpet in his mouth. Maybe that's why his jazz compositions are so stiffly academic.
By Seth Mnookin
August 17, 1999
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New York combo Hasidic New Wave illustrates the difference between klezmer and Jewish jazz.
By Seth Mnookin
August 11, 1999
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"Freedom Blues" presents the tunes of South African jazz artists under apartheid -- and they sound a lot like John Coltrane.
By Jon Dolan
August 4, 1999
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Jazz bassist Charlie Haden evokes the heart-stopping romance and mournful melancholy of film noir on "The Art of the Song."
By Philip Booth
July 27, 1999
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Gang Starr introduced the hip-hop nation to jazz, but a new retrospective proves that you don't have to blame them for letting vital music devolve into bourgeois R&B.
By D. Strauss
July 1, 1999
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The MacArthur Foundation rewards Chicago jazz improv insider Ken Vandermark.
By Douglas Wolk
June 30, 1999
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