April 2010
Annie Ross & the Jazz Masters
The most startling phone call I ever received was in 2004 from...
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08/06/10 • By Nat Hentoff
The Everlasting Louis Armstrong
Nat Hentoff on the educational programs of the Louis Armstrong House and Archives
July/August 2010 • By Nat Hentoff
A Fine Arts Museum’s Tribute to Nonpareil Miles
Nat Hentoff on We Want Miles Exhibit and Book
June 2010 • By Nat Hentoff
Teaching Satchmo & Duke to 7th Graders
Nat Hentoff on Mick Carlon and his approach to jazz appreciation for middle-schoolers
May 2010 • By Nat Hentoff
Jews in the Family of Jazz
For 60 years I’ve been waiting for a book that has finally been published in England: Jazz Jews by Mike Gerber (Five Leaves Publications; info@fiveleaves.co.uk, contact: Ross Bradshaw). Ten years in the making—eight of them on research—with 7,000 names in...
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March 2010
Vince Guaraldi: That Joyous Thing
Despite writing about jazz musicians for over 60 years, I am sometimes...
January/February 2010
Torture Chamber Music
Nat Hentoff looks at how music has been used for torture and what...
August/September 2009
Final Chorus: Listening Guides for M.D.s and Us
When I was a kid, doctors made house calls and learned more about...
April 2009
How Jazz Helps Doctors Listen
There is a growing momentum in medical education to make doctors...
January/February 2009
Going Inside Jazz With Wynton
Nat Hentoff gives a thumbs up to Wynton Marsalis' new book
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...