Most Read This Week In Jazz


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3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song
Can't We Be Friends
Blue in Green
Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins
Nina: A Story of Nina Simone
Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld
Stomp Off, Let's Go: The Early Years of Louis Armstrong
Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
Dave Brubeck: A Life in Time
Święta tradycja, własny głos. Opowieści o amerykańskim jazzie
Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year
Making Their Voices Heard: The Inspiring Friendship of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe
Heart Full of Rhythm: The Big Band Years of Louis Armstrong
Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs and Hidden Histories
The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America
Enter the Blue
Black Bottom Saints
Sittin' In: Jazz Clubs of the 1940s and 1950s – Rare Photographs of Legendary Musicians and Integrated Nightlife in Jim Crow America
Chasin' the Bird: Charlie Parker in California

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Ralph Ellison
There is in this a cruel contradiction implicit in the art form itself. For true jazz is an art of individual assertion within and against the group. Each true jazz moment (as distinct from the uninspired commercial performance) springs from a contest in which each artist challenges all the rest; each solo flight, or improvisation, represents (like the successive canvases of a painter) a definition of his identity: as individual, as member of the collectivity and as a link in the chain of tradit ...more
Ralph Ellison, Shadow and Act

Theodor W. Adorno
People know what they want because they know what other people want.
Theodor Adorno

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