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Thelonious Monk It’s now 35 years since Thelonious Monk’s death in 1982, and over 45 since his last significant recordings were made. The pianist was 30 by the time...
Steve Lacy It’s been over twenty years since the late Steve Lacy last came to town, but the memory remains vivid of his annual visits to the Iron Horse in Northampton. ...
Bud Powell Today is Bud Powell’s 93rd birthday anniversary. In this 21st century moment in which police brutality and shootings of African Americans have become matters of...
Father Gerald Pocock and Duke Ellington “Is God a three-letter word for love?” Reverend Gerald Pocock jotted that rhetorical question down on a piece of stationary when he was...