Alan Scherstuhl
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Amiri Baraka’s ‘Blues People’ Comes Home to the Apollo
The trumpeter and composer Russell Gunn will premiere “The Blues and Its People,” a suite inspired by Baraka’s influential text, to mark its 60th anniversary.
Myra Melford Builds Anew With an All-Star, All-Woman Quintet
The pianist’s latest group fills its recent album “For the Love of Fire and Water” with idiosyncratic life.
Louis Armstrong’s Last Laugh
Private recordings, heard in the new documentary “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues,” add a further dimension to the artist.
Smoke Rises: A Jazz Room Returns on the Upper West Side
This storefront club that’s been mostly shuttered since spring 2020 has long been home to small-group jazz steeped in tradition. Now, it reopens, with some...
An Exhilarating Set of Cecil Taylor’s Jazz Arrives, 49 Years Later
A performance recorded at Town Hall in 1973 went unreleased, partly because of its length. A digital-only release this week includes the 88-minute track “Autumn/Parade.”
Jazz at Lincoln Center Reopens, With Four Young Players in the Spotlight
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra returned to indoor performance with “Wynton at 60,” a program featuring Marsalis originals and a quartet of up-and-coming trumpeters.
Jazz at Lincoln Center Reopens, With Four Young Players in the Spotlight
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra returned to indoor performance with “Wynton at 60,” a program featuring Marsalis originals and a quartet of up-and-coming trumpeters.