Jazz

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They don't buy it
Baby boomers are purchasing more CDs than ever -- but not jazz or classical. Can these genres survive in an increasingly bottom-line business?
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Bossa nova veteran Joco Gilberto -- with just guitar, voice and the songs of Brazil -- still swings harder than most.
What is jazz?
Sponsored by the Knitting Factory, Ornette Coleman, Sonic Youth, Stereolab, Cecil Taylor and others look beyond bop.
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Saxophonist Joe Lovano delivers a loving tribute to 52nd Street, "the street that never slept."
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Downtown jazz pianist Matthew Shipp takes the A train.
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Three kings -- Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderly -- rip through six CDs of the most ravishing jazz ever played.
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On a magisterial five-CD reissue, legendary saxophonist Sonny Rollins explodes modern jazz.
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Young-lion jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman steps up to roar on "Beyond."
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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.
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On "Trio 99>00," Pat Metheny's stipped-down outfit rips and soars above off-the-metronome grooves.
A jazz singer's story
Teri Thornton went from the "greatest voice since Ella Fitzgerald" to a nobody and back. When will she get her own VH1 special?
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New Orleans boogie king Dr. John botches an album of standards. Duke Ellington would not be amused.
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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.
"Sweet and Lowdown"
Rising star Samantha Morton shines in this charming, finely crafted film from Woody Allen.
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Steeped in Crescent City musical voodoo, Los Hombres Calientes reconfigure jazz in the city where it was born.
"Nat King Cole" by Daniel Mark Epstein
A top-notch biography celebrates the jazz piano genius who gained his greatest fame as a pop singer.
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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.
Bring me the fat head of Elton John
Young men once fretted over sculpting the future, not whether they were going to get a sweaty power-handshake. What happened?
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Bryan Ferry retreats from the ignominy of contemporary pop with a set of smoky standards.
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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.
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New York combo Hasidic New Wave illustrates the difference between klezmer and Jewish jazz.
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"Freedom Blues" presents the tunes of South African jazz artists under apartheid -- and they sound a lot like John Coltrane.
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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."
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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.
Genius
The MacArthur Foundation rewards Chicago jazz improv insider Ken Vandermark.
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