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Jazz
June 5, 2020
Jo Livingstone
The Radically Inclusive Music of Ornette Coleman
A new book about the free jazz pioneer illuminates the moral and political significance of the postwar avant-garde.
April 21, 2020
Jo Livingstone
Fiona Apple Gets Free
"Fetch the Bolt Cutters," her first record since 2012, is a lesson in escaping other people’s expectations.
October 8, 2004
Albert Murray
Jazz: Notes Toward a Definition
July 6, 1974
Bruce Cook
Duke Ellington: Master of the American Musical Idiom
December 1, 1947
Charles Miller
Jazz: Records
A review of the Duke Ellington's new recordings from 1947

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