jazz

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• SOURCE: Times of Israel
  7/31/2020
  

  The Teen Promoter, the Janitor, and a Stunning Rediscovered Thelonious Monk Gig

  “As soon as T.S. Monk listened to the recording, he knew right away that his father was feeling really good that day and wasn’t just going through the motions,” Danny Scher said.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  6/26/2020
  

  We Insist: A Century Of Black Music Against State Violence

  Like music itself, this spirit of resistance takes many shapes, but has never been silenced.

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• SOURCE: American Songwriter
  5/15/2020
  

  Up From The Streets, a Vibrant Documentary on the History of New Orleans Music, Is Essential Viewing

  Because of its profound, often tangled and diverse roots, there have been plenty of quality documentaries on the music of New Orleans. This is arguably the best. 

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• SOURCE: WCMU
  5/1/2020
  

  'Fresh Air' Remembers Jazz Archivist And Historian Michael Cogswell

  Michael Cogswell was a musician and historian who managed the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Corona, Queens. He was interviewed by Fresh Air in 2001.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  3/6/2020
  

  McCoy Tyner, Groundbreaking Pianist Of 20th Century Jazz, Dies At 81

  McCoy Tyner was the last surviving member of the John Coltrane Quartet, among the most momentous groups in jazz history. Few musicians have ever exerted as much influence as a sideman.

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• SOURCE: WAMU
  3/18/19
  

  The Turkish Embassy’s Surprising Role In Desegregating D.C. Jazz

  What was a completely segregated art slowly — and somewhat secretly — began to integrate in the halls of the Turkish Embassy.

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• 2/10/19
  

  The American Tourist in Paris: A Retrospective

  by Lauren Jannette

  Although no longer breaking furniture, running out on checks, and throwing racist fits about the evening’s entertainment, Americans remain an integral part of Paris’s continued debates over the benefits and detriments of being one of the world’s largest tourists destinations. 

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• 1/27/19
  

  Review: Showtime at the Apollo: The Epic Tale of Harlem’s Legendary Theater

  by Bruce Chadwick

  Fox takes the reader all the way back to 1914 and discusses entertainment in Harlem, and New York City, in that bustling era when vaudeville was sill king to set the stage for the debut of the Apollo in 1934.

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  3-26-14
  

  Coltrane's Sax Joins Smithsonian Jazz Collection

  The artifact will go on display at the National Museum of American History.

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• SOURCE: The Saturday Evening Post
  2-6-14
  

  The Birth of ‘Rhapsody in Blue’

  George Gershwin and Paul Whiteman introduced jazz to a classical audience.

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  11-4-13
  

  Santana, other musicians join effort to jazz up NY home of John Coltrane, turn it into museum

  The cavalcade of musicians is trying to transform the Dix Hills, Long Island home.

• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3-25-13
  

  James Hughes: Stanley Kubrick's Unmade Film About Jazz in the Third Reich

  James Hughes is a Chicago-based writer and editor who has contributed to Slate, The Believer, Wax Poetics, and The Village Voice. For a decade, he was an editor and publisher of Stop Smiling magazine and its book imprint. In 1985, Stanley Kubrick was handed a book on the survival of jazz in Nazi-occupied Europe. A snapshot of a Luftwaffe officer casually posing among black, Gypsy, and Jewish musicians outside a Paris nightclub caught his eye. It looked like something out of Dr. Strangelove, he said. He'd long wanted to bring World War II to the screen, and perhaps this photograph offered a way in."Stanley's famous saying was that it was easier to fall in love than find a good story," says Tony Frewin, Kubrick's longtime assistant (and, for the purpose of disclosure, an editor-at-large at my former magazine, Stop Smiling). "He was limitlessly interested in anything to do with Nazis and desperately wanted to make a film on the subject."