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Angela Davis’s student years in France were an alchemy of discipline and distraction.

Thelonious Monk was a more nuanced figure than the flimsy characterization of a way-out jazz cat could ever convey.

A longstanding rivalry between old friends shows what it takes to get into the New York Times.

On River: The Joni Letters Herbie Hancock and Joni Mitchell make a remarkable collaboration.

Why listen to Stravinksy in sequence when you can click shuffle on your iPod and rediscover the music anew?

Ben Ratliff's not-quite biography of John Coltrane considers the jazz legend's enduring influence.

A trilogy of hard-boiled detective novels set in Marseilles contemplates the ethnic turmoil in modern-day France.

Nearly fifty years after Ornette Coleman revolutionized jazz, he is finally being honored with the music world's top awards.

As composer Steve Reich turns 70, he is winning recognition from the
classical establishment for the creativity and power ever-present in
his music.

John Gennari's Blowin' Hot and Cool looks at the intimate but fractious relationship between jazz luminaries and their critics.