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Sutton Finds Model & Muse in Personal Hero Joni Mitchell

New Miles Davis Box Set Collects Unreleased Material from Second Great Quintet

Nash Translates Political Speeches into Jazz on Presidential Suite, Due Sept. 9

Album Review: Anat Fort Trio’s Birdwatching

Wadada Leo Smith Celebrates National Parks with Double Album

Album Review: Jocelyn Michelle’s Time To Play!

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Jazz Recording Engineer Rudy Van Gelder Dies at 91

Rudy Van Gelder, the recording engineer who cultivated an amateur passion for jazz into a legendary career—during which he worked with Miles Davis, John Coltrane, The …
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REVIEWS ★ EDITORS’ PICKS June 2016

Archives ★ CLassic interviews

Phil Is Now: Out Of The Woods
Published 1/23/1957

Phillip Wells Woods is a lean 25, with the appearance of an Alan Ladd, and an alto that talks more like a cross between Bogart and Gérard Philipe. Woods, who won a 1955 DownBeat Jazz Critics Poll New Star award, recently left Dizzy Gillespie’s …
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Muddy Waters: Last King of the South Side?
Published 10/8/1964

These days the singer wears his success easily. He has weathered well the shifting tides of the popular-music business, adapting his music to the various demands made on it over the years. His style has moved away from away from the rough, intense co …
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Bob Belden’s Spanish Key
Published 3/1/2011

It’s a sunny, spring day in May in midtown Manhattan that begins a week of recording. And everybody’s waiting for Rabih.

From the podium, the leader croons, ““I’m in the oud for love.”

With these words of wit that typically …
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Jazz On Television In 1965
Published 5/6/1965

For the record—and in the interest of enlightening posterity and giving credit that is seldom acknowledged—it should be said that the last few weeks of 1964 and the first couple of months of 1965 were a fruitful period of television jazz. …
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