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Though he was rarely financially secure, it would be wrong to say that Thelonious Monk wasn’t recognized in his lifetime. The High Priest of Bebop, as...

Years ago, the great tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon spoke to me candidly and unexpectedly about drug use among jazz musicians. He explained to me the strain...


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True to this group’s name, the material on their second CD fits better in a category sometimes described as lounge music than it fits into jazz....