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Lenny Bruce Too much! Amazing and sweet! Lenny Bruce on jazz and modern art, with Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, Teddy Kotick, and Philly Joe Jones playing Charlie Parker’s...
Martin Luther King, Jr. at the March on Washington; Mahalia Jackson wearing corsage at lower right In the speech he gave before the Lincoln Memorial at the March on Washington...
Clifford Jordan I’m dusting off Clifford Jordan’s Repetition for my feature in tonight’s Jazz à la Mode. It brought a warmth to my heart when it was...
Randy Weston Randy Weston, who died on September 1 at 92, was one of my early favorites among jazz pianists. Like his “biggest influence,” Thelonious Monk, as well as Herbie Nichols,...