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The Midlands poet Roy Fisher has never aspired to a readership. All the more reason to welcome his Selected Poems.

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

Rising to the dare of Martial Solal's mischievous piano playing.

How can we expect the experts to reform the financial system when it's experts who got us into this mess to begin with?

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

In songs, symphonies and sonatas, Charles Ives furnished America's musical past with a future.

The genius of Jerome Robbins.

The subtle sounds of this saxophonist defy definition.

The marketing-driven message of the perfect girl--smart, skinny, pretty, athletic and loved by all--is a model of perfection that's hard to live up to. Can't girls just be free to be?

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