Nate Chinen
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The tour, which brings together two of the brightest lights in jazz, will be playing across the U.S. in July and August.
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The London trio, led by Shabaka Hutchings on reeds, liberates itself from received jazz wisdom, let alone any form of decorum.
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The award, bestowed annually since 1982, amounts to a lifetime achievement for luminaries of the form — this year's class includes the creator of Schoolhouse Rock! and a South African legend.
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Between his classics My Favorite Things and A Love Supreme, Coltrane recorded these sessions on a single day in 1963. 55 years later, Both Directions at Once arrives like a rare celestial event.
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Abercrombie began forming his style in Boston while attending Berklee in the mid-'60s, eventually helping to redefine the lines between jazz, fusion and rock.
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Monday night's presentation of the 2017 NEA Jazz Masters fellowships, coming under the shadow of a proposed presidential budget that would eliminate the NEA outright, mixed politics with grace.
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The Transformations Suite is Samora Pinderhughes' ambitious new work combining music, words and visuals — inspired by African-American resistance and protest movements.