Nate Chinen
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As commemorative tributes take place across the country, the flagship jazz competition has quietly been put on hold. -
Since the 1960s, the experimental jazz collective has worked toward a high standard of shared intuition. The group is playing a series of anniversary concerts featuring original and new members. -
The jazz drummer shares why he opens his latest album with a recitation by his grandfather, "the ultimate bad hombre." -
Alexander arrives with the announcement of Joey.Monk.Live! just one day before its release — watch the 14-year-old pianist bring playful improvisations to Monk's music as a preview of the record.
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Abercrombie began forming his style in Boston while attending Berklee in the mid-'60s, eventually helping to redefine the lines between jazz, fusion and rock. -
Working with a new band and deep into the making of a new record with collaborator Terrace Martin, Herbie Hancock finds himself in conversation with his own visions of the future, now 40 years old.
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Tepfer sees jazz as the pursuit of freedom within a framework — a premise that underlies his work with improvisational algorithms and a Yamaha Disklavier. He unpacks the project in this video.
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Roland Cazimero, along with his brother Robert, was a guiding force in Hawaiian music and culture since the mid-1970s. -
The saxophonist, one of jazz's enlightened elders, reflects in an interview on his latest album with his New Quartet and on remaining in the moment while rifling through his back pages. -
The jazz giant reflects on his decision to release a sprawl of writings, recordings and other material to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, in his old neighborhood of Harlem.
