Old recordings of jazz greats discovered
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With cocktail glasses clinking in the background, jazz singer Billie Holiday stood near a piano amid partygoers inside an apartment overlooking New York City's Hudson River. She began singing "Good Morning Heartache."
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Big-band leader Toshiko Akiyoshi, pianist Ramsey Lewis and vocalist Jimmy Scott were among those selected by the National Endowment for the Arts as the newest Jazz Masters, the nation's highest jazz honor.
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At the Jazz Standard on Wednesday, Jason Moran made a point of playing music by Thelonious Monk, Andrew Hill and Jaki Byard, the pianistic troika at the heart of his style.
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MONTEREY, California  - Nearly 40 years after helping pioneer jazz fusion with Miles Davis, guitar maestro John McLaughlin still faces harsh critics who dismiss such technically demanding, electronically charged music as "steroidal" or even a "pestilence."
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A look back at some of the more memorable elements of Oscar broadcasts past.
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New releases from Arcade Fire, Son Volt, Ry Cooder, Wynton Marsalis and the Stooges.
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Lew Tabackin set at Smalls on Wednesday contained a few originals, a ballad standard full of fast, braying lines and some â50s jazz that ran parallel to bebop.
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During an illustrious career spanning seven decades, Oscar Peterson played with the biggest names in jazz.
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words. But what about an original sound recording? Twenty-five culturally important recordings &#151; including an episode of "The Lone Ranger," President Franklin D. Roosevelt's address to Congress the day after the Pearl Harbor attack and one of the Rolling Stones' most famous songs &#151; were selected Tuesday for preservation in a special sound archive.
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This is a repertory in which barriers between classical, jazz and pop have long been abandoned.
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Jazz, Pop, and Country all make an appearance in this week's roundup of new releases.
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Jazz musicians still jam till dawn at the Mutual Musicians Foundation, the old union hall that's one of the few remaining reminders of the days when Count Basie was a household name and the place to be here was 18th and Vine.
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Five previously unreleased Frank Sinatra concerts taped in Las Vegas
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Los Angeles-based Collectors' Choice Music is carving a very successful niche with the rerelease of some old albums that probably aren't in your record collection.
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Wednesday at the Jazz Gallery, three musicians who have played as a trio only a few times before â the drummer Jeff Ballard, the guitarist Lionel Loueke and the alto saxophonist Miguel ZenÃ³n â played as if they were meant to be together.
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The portable stereos that ruled city streets in the 1980s aren't shipping in high volumes anymore. But some sound artists are finding new ways to incorporate the devices into performances and ad-hoc radio networks. By Elizabeth Biddlecombe.
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Long before there was Napster, there were concert tapes, live recordings made and swapped by fans of groups like the Grateful Dead and Country Joe and the Fish.