Jazz

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Not going back to Birdland
The Knitting Factory's four-city gig is a jazz fest worth staying home for.
Sharps & flats
There's no way you're going to pay $400 for a Duke Ellington box set. Here are five reissues that get to the center of the legend's vast genius.
Sharps & flats
Jazz pianist Jacky Terrasson takes on Pink Floyd, Ravel.
Melba Liston
The brilliant trombonist who played with Dizzy Gillespie and Quincy Jones moves on.
Al Hirt
"The King of the Trumpet" is gone.
A master at dangerous play
'Bitches Brew' changed jazz history -- and proved again that Miles Davis was the Proteus of 20th century music.
Sloan
Nina Simone
Sharps & Flats is a daily music review in Salon Magazine
Jazz swings into Beijing
Dan Ouellette reports from the fifth Beijing International Jazz Festival on how jazz is swinging its way into Chinese culture
Charlie Haden and Kenny Barron
Sharps & Flats is a daily music review in Salon Magazine
Flying Colors
Sharps and Flats is a daily music review.
The Salon Interview: Stanley Crouch
Author and critic Stanley Crouch offers sharp and commonsensical views on President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, multiculturalism and the American identity, Spike Lee and Johnnie Cochran.
The Salon Interview - Toni Morrison
Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison talks about her new book, "Paradise," what she learned from her marriage and why O.J. Simpson is innocent.
Salon's Favorite Biographies, 1997
Salon lists the best biographies of the year
Singing the body eclectic
What's what in world music: the Salon critics' guide
Keith Jarrett - La Scala
Happy End of the World
Black Beauty: Live at Fillmore West
Herbie Hancock
Sharps & Flats is a daily music review in Salon Magazine
Natty Dread
Sharps & Flats is a daily music review in Salon Magazine
A Big Bite of The Big Easy
Tony Scherman reviews the compilation "Crescent City Soul: The Sound of New Orleans, 1947-1974".
Beyond the jazz ghetto
James Marcus reviews Cassandra Wilson's album "New Moon Daughter".
The Heartbeat of America
James Marcus reviews Bill Frisell's career in this edition of Sharps and Flats.
Young Saint with a Horn
Milo Miles reviews the music of Eric Dolphy.
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