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Jazz
Jazz news and analysis from The Nation
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October 6, 2018
Nate Chinen’s new book confronts the contemporary jazz moment with clarity and authority.
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August 16, 2018
After a 45-year-long career, the jazz bassist is still creating experimental music pulsing with humanity.
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May 10, 2018
The guitarist’s music is exhilarating, unapologetically smart, and unspoiled by phoniness or pretense.
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October 26, 2017
David Yaffe’s new biography doesn’t reach as far into the horizon as Mitchell’s music.
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August 31, 2017
Recent releases by two jazz-program graduates, Ryan Keberle and Tyshawn Sorey, make potent cases for whatever educational methods work.
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July 26, 2017
The jazz pianist’s style was simple, but the themes that gave shape to his music were not.
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April 28, 2017
In tribute to all those planning actions for May Day.
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March 3, 2017
The journalist’s spirit of freewheeling dispute was very much in evidence.
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March 1, 2017
To the degree that there was spontaneity in his latest concert, it was spontaneous regurgitation.
