Nate Chinen
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Grammy-winning saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter has long loved science fiction and comic books 鈥� his new work, Emanon, he's fused those passions into three-disc album and graphic novel. -
The award, bestowed annually since 1982, amounts to a lifetime achievement for luminaries of the form 鈥� this year's class includes the creator of Schoolhouse Rock!and a South African legend. -
Between his classics My Favorite Things and A Love Supreme,Coltrane recorded these sessions on a single day in 1963. 55 years later, Both Directions at Once arrives like a rare celestial event. -
The veteran jazz master teams up with one of America's most cherished songwriters. -
For a group that has always stood for musical collectivism, the substitution of pianist Orrin Evans for Ethan Iverson was a shakeup of existential proportions.
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Over a career that sprawled across six full decades, Taylor maintained an unwavering standard of expedition. And what he discovered 鈥� in an endless, boundless process 鈥� was a world unto himself. -
Both as a player and composer, Halvorson has a decade-strong reputation as one of her field's least predictable. Her latest release, Code Girl, might be her most startling move yet. -
A singer of ironclad capability, creative drive and irrepressible panache, she has emerged as the breakout new talent in a formidable jazz-vocal tradition.
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No jazz musician has ever been heard more on public radio than the late Marian McPartland. But for all her ubiquity, how well did we really know her? -
We join Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah for a performance at the New Orleans Jazz Market drawn from The Centennial Trilogy 鈥攁nd explore his work as a bridge-builder, an ambassador and an avatar.
