If there’s one genre that rivals country music for the most quintessentially American art form, it’s jazz. And, historically, the genres share a lot more common ground than you might think. One could ...
The term “standard” seems antithetical to something as freeform and limitless as jazz. But, time has proven that these songs are not rigid at all. The only strict parameter is the lyrics, and yet ...
During its relatively brief life, the Jazz Standard hosted many wonderful evenings of creative music. Artists performing in the basement beneath the barbecue restaurant ranged from Houston Person to ...
On July 17, 1959, the famed singer behind a controversial jazz standard once condemned as a “declaration of war” died—an ironically tragic end to an internal war the singer endured in the final years ...
Nancy King's duo performance with pianist Fred Hersch on Live at Jazz Standard allows her to share emotional warmth—which she's portrayed naturally throughout a career that spans over forty years—with ...
THE JAZZ STANDARDS: A Guide to the Repertoire, by Ted Gioia. Oxford University Press, 527 pp., $39.95. In a tense moment at the end of Annie Dillard's memoir "Encounters With Chinese Writers," nothing ...
Jazz was the most influential musical movement of the 20th century. What’s its story? The Count Basie Orchestra. Alexander ...
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