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An Innovative Vocalist Lost Her Speech, but She’s Still Performing

Linda Sharrock, an avant-garde jazz musician who became aphasic after a 2009 stroke, has returned to the stage and inspired…

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For Dizzy Gillespie, Queens Was the Place to Be and to Bop

Dizzy Gillespie helped make Minton’s Playhouse famous. Minton’s in Harlem was where jazz musicians, from out-of-towners to locals performing in…

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Les McCann, Pianist, Singer and Soul Jazz Pioneer, Dies at 88

He released more than 50 albums but had his greatest commercial success with “Compared to What,” a recording that came…

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Carla Bley, Jazz Composer, Arranger and Provocateur, Dies at 87

Her music, which ranged from chamber miniatures to blaring fanfares, was suffused with a slyly subversive attitude.

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Jazz’s Hancock Competition Returns, Crowning an Electrifying Rising Star

Jahari Stampley, a 23-year-old pianist from Chicago, won the prize as the genre’s premier coronation ceremony for young talent was…

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Robert Glasper Leans Into the Drama

Mounting his fifth annual residency at the Blue Note (after a viral beef at the Grammys), the pianist, producer and…

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A Drug Company Exploited a Safety Requirement to Make Money

The pharmaceutical industry is rife with tales of companies dreaming up ways to prolong their monopolies on lucrative drugs. They…

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Lakers Agree to Trade Russell Westbrook in a Three-Team Deal

Westbrook, a nine-time All-Star, would head to Utah after not fitting smoothly with LeBron James and Anthony Davis. Minnesota’s D’Angelo…

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Five Minutes That Will Make You Love 21st-Century Jazz

We’ve done a lot of listening back. So where is jazz today? Writers and musicians including Sonny Rollins, Melanie Charles…

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The Black Musical That May Have Inspired Gershwin

I have, over the transom, received the paperback edition of a book that escaped me last year, to my regret.…

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