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    Maja S. K. Ratkje uses Knut Hamsun’s novel Sult as a starting point for her latest recording.

    News, From the Magazine, Maja S. K. Ratkje, Fumi Tomita

    Jul 3, 2019 9:00 AM

    Maja S. K. Ratkje, Fumi Tomita Interpret Works of Literature

    Artistic disciplines inform one another, cross-pollinating inspiration and conception. In recent years, poetry has…

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    ​Stephanie Chou performs March 29 at Joe’s Pub in New York.

    News, From the Magazine, Stephanie Chou

    Jul 1, 2019 9:00 AM

    Stephanie Chou’s Suite Examines Dark History

    Even though she excelled as a math major at Columbia University, Stephanie Chou had already looked ahead to a saxophone…

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    Anat Cohen’s long musical relationship with Oded Lev-Ari has resulted in “Triple Helix: Concerto For Clarinet And Ensemble,” which premiered in January at Carnegie Hall.

    News, From the Magazine, Anat Cohen, Anat Cohen Tentet, The DIVA Jazz Orchestra, Anat Cohen & Trio Brasileiro, Anat Cohen & Fred Hersch

    Jun 21, 2019 9:00 AM

    The Eclectic Sensibility of Anat Cohen

    Poised at the kitchen counter in her Brooklyn apartment, Anat Cohen assumed the role of solicitous host. Tall, with…

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    Smashed Plastic Record Pressings’ John Lombardo (left), Steve Polutnik and Andy Weber

    News, From the Magazine

    Jun 19, 2019 9:00 AM

    A Vinyl Renaissance

    According to Nielsen Soundscan, 16.8 million LPs were sold last year, up from 14.6 million the year before, and marking…

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    Chicago pianist Patricia Barber has issued her first new recording in six years, Higher.

    News, From the Magazine, Patricia Barber

    Jun 18, 2019 9:00 AM

    Patricia Barber Expands the Palette

    For four decades, Chicago pianist Patricia Barber has been quietly, but steadily, creating her own unique brand of…

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    Alfred Lion (left), Dexter Gordon and Francis Wolff

    News, From the Magazine, Herbie Hancock, Dexter Gordon, Robert Glasper, Andrew Hill

    Jun 18, 2019 9:00 AM

    Blue Note Celebrates 80th Anniversary with Vinyl Reissues

    As label president Don Was told DownBeat in a recent phone interview from his office in the Capitol Records Building in…

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    Drummer Adonis Rose has big plans for the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra’s next chapter.

    Interview, News, From the Magazine, New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, Adonis Rose

    Jun 17, 2019 10:12 AM

    New Orleans Jazz Orchestra is Charting a Path Forward

    Drummer Adonis Rose, a founding member of the Grammy-winning New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, had his work cut out for him…

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    George Benson, shown here at the 2016 Detroit Jazz Festival, performs songs written by Fats Domino and Chuck Berry on his new album.

    News, From the Magazine, George Benson

    Jun 14, 2019 9:15 AM

    George Benson Salutes Rock Pioneers Chuck Berry, Fats Domino

    For his new album, George Benson turned to the past. On Walking To New Orleans (Provogue), the jazz guitarist/singer…

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    The development of Star People Nation—the first album in which Theo Croker has sole producer credit—involved an 18-month journey to both U.S. coasts and multiple recording studios, where he played auxiliary keyboards and synths, crafted electronic and acoustic beats, incorporated samples and wrote lyrics to be sung by himself and special guests.

    News, From the Magazine, Theo Croker, Kassa Overall

    Jun 13, 2019 9:00 AM

    Theo Croker is a ‘Catalyst for Action’

    It’s a Wednesday night, and a capacity crowd has filled Mr. Musichead, a spacious gallery on The Sunset Strip in…

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    “I’m looking for musicians who will kick my ass and make me grow,” Melissa Aldana recently said with a laugh.

    News, From the Magazine, Melissa Aldana

    Jun 12, 2019 9:00 AM

    Melissa Aldana’s Indisputable Command

    In the fall of 2013, T.S. Monk was hollering into a hot microphone on the Kennedy Center Stage: “ They gave you their…

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