December 2008
What About Mingus?
Is this innovative figure being forgotten?
Final Chorus
April 2009 • By Nat Hentoff
How Jazz Helps Doctors Listen
There is a growing momentum in medical education to make doctors aware that they not only take the patient’s history, but, much more meaningfully, must listen to his or her stories about why they came to a doctor. Too often a physician makes a diagnosis...
March 2009 • By Nat Hentoff
Oprah & the Jazz Image
A little exposure could go a long way, if only...
January/February 2009 • By Nat Hentoff
Going Inside Jazz With Wynton
Nat Hentoff gives a thumbs up to Wynton Marsalis' new book
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November 2008
A Jazz Bridge to Musicians in Need
Just as certain musicians—Armstrong, Parker, Coltrane—have influenced...
October 2008
Jazz’s First Lady of Charity
When Phoebe Jacobs, longtime friend and associate of Louis Armstrong...
September 2008
Old Country Jewish Blues & Ornette
There’s a country music song, “Will the Circle Be Unbroken?,”...
August 2008
Jazz Revelations for Baby Boomers
A lawyer I know began his jazz listening with the bebop of Bird...
June 2008
Is Jazz Black Music?
In January, I was on a panel at Jazz at Lincoln Center. The subject...
May 2008
New Finds for the Jazz Bookshelf
More than the rest of us who write about jazz, Whitney Balliett’s...
April 2008
Swinging Spoken Words
When I came upon video interviews with 280 jazz musicians (available...