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Books Review

Half-Blood Blues

Esi Edugyan

Should have been a hit.

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Music Review

Radio Music Society

Esperanza Spalding

Contemporary jazz fusionist spreads wings further.

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TV & Film News

Trailer of the Day: Jack Kerouac's On the Road

By Jason Bogdaneris

Beat classic gets the Hollywood treatment.

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TV & Film News

Dueling Miles Davis biopics in the works

By Eric Schneider

Don Cheadle is intent on playing the legendary trumpeter.

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Music List

The Best of February: Music

By Stewart Mason

Catch up on the last four weeks with this recap… >>

Music Review

Snakeoil

Tim Berne

Avant-jazz vet on a new label.

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Music News

R.I.P. Etta James

By Anna Graizbord

An esteemed R&B-pop crossover artist passes.

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Books Review

R. Crumb: The Complete Record Cover Collection

R. Crumb

An era of music filtered through an iconic artist.

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Music Review

Bad As Me

Tom Waits

More ballads and bruisers from the sultan of strange.

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Music Review

Bossa Nova and the Rise of Brazilian Music in the 1960s

Various Artists

Putting Brazil's modernist musical movement into a social context.

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Music Review

The Lost and Found

Gretchen Parlato

Rising jazz singer keeps getting better.

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Music Review

Brazilliance, Volume 1

Laurindo Almeida

Both forward-looking and sensuously romantic.

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Music Profile

ECM Records

By Jim Allen

Pioneering, jazz-centric label

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Music Review

It’s OK To Listen to the Gray Voice

Jan Garbarek

Ambient jazz and airy fusion.

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Music Profile

Jan Garbarek

By Jim Allen

True jazz fusion at its most expansive.

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Music Review

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

Defining a new musical language.

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Music Profile

Keith Jarrett

By Jim Allen

Boundary-breaking jazz innovator

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Music Profile

Paul Bley

By Stewart Mason

Experimental brain, traditional heart.

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Music List

Stewart Mason’s Top 10 Albums of 2010

By Stewart Mason

From the self-assured full-length debuts of Janelle Monae, Tame Impala… >>

Music List

Late Night Jazz

By Stewart Mason

Whether it's coming from a stage or a turntable, jazz… >>

Books Profile

Harvey Pekar

By Damian Van Denburgh

Pekar transformed the mundane into the profound.

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Music Review

I’m New Here

Gil Scott-Heron

Jazz poet takes an electronic deep-groove approach

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Music Profile

Gil Scott-Heron

By Jim Allen

Spoken-word performances with groove-conscious jazz and R&B

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Music Profile

Nina Simone

By Stewart Mason

An iconic, uncompromising and wide-ranging artist.

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Culture Profile

Jim Flora

By Jim Allen

His bold, freewheeling style broke new ground and created the… >>

Culture Profile

Lenny Bruce

By Jim Allen

A Kerouac of stand-up comedy.

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Music List

Lost Krautrock Classics: 10 Under-Appreciated German Gems

By Jim Allen

Ever since the mid-'90s Krautrock revival made it cool to… >>

Books Profile

Donald Barthelme

By Damian Van Denburgh

Unequaled innovator of experimental fiction.

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Books Profile

Allen Ginsberg

By Damian Van Denburgh

A relentless, revolutionary force in poetry.

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Music Profile

Tom Waits

By Jim Allen

The man who made mincemeat out of singer/songwriter clichés.

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Books Profile

Haruki Murakami

By Emma Hospelhorn

Enigmatic Japanese postmodern writer who infuses surrealism, social criticism, and… >>