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Herbie Hancock heads to the Winspear with new projects on horizon, old wisdom in mind

The Many Worlds Of David Amram - Jazz Journal

The American polymath was in and out of classical music, jazz, pop and poetry decades before publicists developed the genre-busting tic

JJ 03/64: Buddy DeFranco & Tommy Gumina - Polytones

Gumina is renowned for the Polytone guitar amp and 60 years ago Mark Gardner fell, perhaps inadvertently, on the source of the brand name

Obituary: Georg Riedel - Jazz Journal

The Swedish bassist and composer is best known for the folk-inspired Jazz På Svenska but his breadth of style belied the Nordic stereotype

Soundtrack to the Struggle: Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit"

Early 1939. The lights go down at New York’s Cafe Society. The waiters hush the drinking audience, a single small spotlight shines on her face. And Billy Holiday begins to sing. “Southern trees, bears strange fruit blood on the leaves, blood at the root.” The song ends, and the spotlight goes out. Billy leaves the … Continue reading