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Kevin Whitehead is the longtime jazz critic for NPR’s “Fresh Air” and author of Why Jazz? A Concise Guide (2011), New Dutch Swing (about improvised music in Amsterdam), and Instant Composers Pool Orchestra: You Have to See It (with photographer Ton Mijs). He has written about jazz for umpteen publications, and his essays have appeared in such collections as Traveling the Spaceways: Sun Ra, the Astro-Black and Other Solar Myths and The Cartoon Music Book.

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100 Years of Woody Herman

In the later 1930s, when swing bands ruled American pop, Woody Herman … more »

Interview: Craig Taborn

Craig Taborn is a famously voracious listener, equally at home with 19th-… more »

Interview: Ben Goldberg

The adventurous, lyrical, soulful San Francisco clarinet improviser Ben G… more »

Six Degrees of Rudresh Mahant…

It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-… more »

Rudresh Mahanthappa, Gamak…

Indian-American saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa sometimes looks for ways … more »

The Unknown Dave Brubeck

Naturally enough, obituary writers focused on the milestones in Dave Brub… more »

Interview: Michael Formanek

Michael Formanek is one of jazz’s formidable bassists: fast and lim… more »

Laurent Coq and Miguel Zen…

Argentine novelist Julio Cortázar’s 1963 classic Rayuela … more »

Trans-Global Expression: John…

Capsule jazz histories tell us European harmony and African rhythm came t… more »

Six Degrees of Colin Stetson…

It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-… more »

Norse to the Future: ECM…

Almost since its inception in 1969, Germany’s ECM Records has featu… more »

Six Degrees of Duke Ellington…

It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-… more »

Six Degrees of Sonny Rollins…

It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-… more »

Interview: Ethan Iverson

Ethan Iverson is a polymath: a jazz pianist equally comfortable playing C… more »

Masabumi Kikuchi: Unlearning …

Masabumi Kikuchi is one of the oddest modern jazz pianists. As the Bad Pl… more »

Impulse’s Deep Bench: T…

There was always more to Impulse than John Coltrane. As part of the label… more »

Six Degrees of Esperanza Spal…

It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-… more »

Sam Rivers: Go with the Flow

Sam Rivers, who died at 88 the day after Christmas 2011, covered so much … more »

Tim Berne, Insomnia

Saxophonist Tim Berne writes some of the slinkiest lines around, lyrical … more »

2011 Jazz: Echoing the …

It says something about the timeless state of modern jazz that one of 201… more »

Bill Frisell’s Pan-Amer…

Bill Frisell, the singular and much admired/emulated jazz guitarist, is a… more »

Mr. Mellifluous: A Listener…

Most jazz fans recognize Benny Golson’s tunes, even if they don… more »

Six Degrees of The Byrds…

It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-… more »

The Byrds, Fifth Dimension…

After Mr. Tambourine Man and Turn! Turn! Turn!, the Byrds amped up their … more »

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Kicking at the Boundaries of Metal

By Jon Wiederhorn, eMusic Contributor

As they age, extreme metal merchants often inject various non-metallic styles into their songs in order to hasten their musical growth. Sometimes, as with Alcest and Jesu, they develop to the point where their original… more »

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