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    Tomasz Stańko

    Classic Interview, Tomasz Stańko

    Sep 13, 2021 2:41 PM

    Tomasz Stańko: Soundtrack to Freedom

    In 1993, four years after the breakup of the Soviet Union, trumpeter Tomasz Stańko, Poland’s most prominent jazz…

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    Count Basie (1904–1984)

    Classic Interview, Count Basie, Jack Teagarden, Maynard Ferguson

    Sep 7, 2021 1:00 PM

    Three In The Afternoon: Basie, Ferguson, Teagarden

    The following discussion took place on a Sunday afternoon in Count Basie’s dressing room during the recent Jazz…

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    Benny Goodman

    Classic Interview, Benny Goodman

    Aug 3, 2021 2:45 PM

    Benny Goodman: From The Inside

    About 27 years have gone by since they danced in the aisles to the music of Benny Goodman and his band at the Paramount…

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    Lena Horne

    Classic Interview, Lena Horne

    May 7, 2021 12:00 PM

    Lena Horne: The Horne Of Plenty

    Somewhere in the background, by the piano in the living room, Lennie Hayton sat with coffee in hand, filling the air…

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    Tony Williams

    Classic Interview, Tony Williams

    Apr 19, 2021 6:22 PM

    Tony Williams’ Two Decades Of Drum Innovation

    Tony Williams erupted onto the jazz scene in 1963 as a 17-year-old prodigy with a full-blown, volcanic style of…

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    Dexter Gordon (1923–1990)

    Classic Interview, Dexter Gordon

    Jan 27, 2021 10:20 AM

    Transcontinental Tenorist: Dexter Gordon

    When Dexter Gordon won the Tenor Saxophone category in the 1971 DownBeat Critics Poll, the honor could hardly be…

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    Claudio Roditi (1946–2020)

    Classic Interview, Claudio Roditi

    Jan 4, 2021 12:32 PM

    Claudio Roditi’s Gentle Fire

    During a performance you usually see Claudio Roditi adjusting a mic to position one of his brass instruments—the…

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    ​Gil Evans (1912–1988)

    Classic Interview, Gil Evans

    Nov 18, 2020 1:07 PM

    The Birth Of Cool: Gil Evans

    Among jazzmen, particularly player-writers, Gil Evans is uniquely admired.

    “For my taste,” Miles Davis says,…

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    Thelonious Monk (1917-1982)

    Classic Interview, Thelonious Monk

    Nov 2, 2020 8:53 AM

    Genius Of Bop: Thelonious Monk

    NEW YORK—I have interviewed Thelonious Sphere Monk.

    It’s not like having seen Pinetop spit blood or delivering…

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    Lennie Tristano (1919-1978)

    Classic Interview, Lennie Tristano

    Sep 25, 2020 12:43 PM

    Lennie Tristano: Watered-Down Bop Destroying Jazz

    The efforts of such groups as the George Shearing quintet and the Bird-with-strings combo to wean the public to bop by…

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