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Thelonious Monk: Ode To A Sphere

January/February 2010  •  By Vijay Iyer

Thelonious Monk: Ode To A Sphere

Pianist Vijay Iyer examines the modern-day legacy of Thelonious Monk

Crossing Streams

March 2009  •  By Ethan Iverson

Crossing Streams

The Bad Plus’ pianist examines the classical-jazz paradox

Real Genius?

December 2008  •  By K. Leander Williams

Real Genius?

A few decades ago, when jazz started becoming known as “America’s classical music,” the theory ran that a shift in the public’s perception of the music would help put the idiom on the road to the kind of legitimization signified by institutional awareness...

August 2008  •  By David R. Adler

Playing Changes for Change

Saxophonist Tim Ries has a song called “What Happened to Ya?” with lyrics that cite a lack of political resolve among the aging ’60s generation. Some would extend this critique to the jazz community itself, arguing that protest jazz—what Archie Shepp once...

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January/February 2008

Moment by Moment

I’m convinced that no genuine success occurs except as a natural...

November 2007

Westward Expansion: Monterey at 50

When it comes to jazz legacy, that oft-used and misused l-word...

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October 2007

Jazzing Iraq

Hard to believe, but Iraq was once seen as “an island in a sea...

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April 2007

On Belonging and Grieving

One of the functions of the annual conference held every January...

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March 2007

Jazz and Basketball

There can be no doubt that jazz has made me a better person than...

May 2006

The Trial of Tarik Shah

By now, JazzTimes readers may be familiar with the case of bassist...

October 2005

Assessing Atzmon

In his keynote address at the recent National Critics Conference...

April 2002

More Jazz and Sex

The December 2001 issue of JazzTimes raised a host of pertinent...

December 2001

Mid-East Scales Provoke Western Fears

The Afro-Semitic Experience is a multicultural jazz band that...

October 2001

Jazz Bubbles in Music’s Melting Pot

Jazz may have been born in America, but more than ever it is the...

September 2001

The New Euro-Jazz Chauvinism

American jazz musicians have considerable exposure in Europe...

April 2001

Evansing the Score: The Politics of Exclusion in Ken Burns’ Jazz

A quick stroll down the shopping malls of cyberspace is enough...