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“Playing bop is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing”*…
Jazz as a form of wit… Jazz, like wit, can be broadly defined as surprising creativity. So does it follow that jazz musicians are a witty bunch?I’ve wondered about this for longer than Kenny G has...
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“I certainly was one of the originators, but I don’t think you can blame me...
In advance of an appearance at London’s ICA (which, in the event, didn’t happen), a conversation with Mark Smith, musician (The Fall) and founder of the legendary punk fanzine Sniffin’ Glue— which...
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“My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never”*…
Duke Ellington eating dinner with his wife, Bea Ellington, and a friend (source: Library of Congress) While Duke Ellington is rightly revered as the extraordinary musician and composer that he was,...
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“In many ways, classic rock became bigger than mainstream rock”*…
Led Zeppelin is classic rock. So are Mötley Crüe and Ozzy Osbourne. But what about U2 or Nirvana? As a child of the 1990s, I never doubted that any of these bands were classic rock, even though it...
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Rap, Rap, Rapping on Heaven’s Door…
As our friends at Rap Genius observe, Rap’s history has been traced many ways — through books, documentaries, official compilations, DJ mixes, university archives, even parties. But until now you...
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Imitation is the sincerest form of…
Canadian/French/Moroccan photographer and performer 2Fik considers himself a stateless person; his work is a self-described “soap opera” of mashed-up cultures, in which he plays all the roles,...
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A(nother) good reason to take a Cab on Monday morning…
If Ellington was the Beethoven of the jazz band era, its avatar of majesty, then surely Cab Calloway was its Mozart– its imp of pure joy: …Cab Calloway and his orchestra performing “Jumpin Jive,” in...
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