opinion
EASY LISTENING
Jazz
‘MUSICAL GIANT’
INCOMPARABLE
The singer, pianist, and modern jazz trailblazer died in Los Angeles, and leaves behind an incredible legacy.
SOUND OF REVOLUTION
Pulitzer-winning composer Anthony Davis on Malcolm X at the Met, challenging racism in opera, championing Black power in his work—and why artists must “step up” against bigotry.
opinion
DOUBLE HELIX IN THE SKY TONIGHT
Weird, intelligent, polished, poetic, and hilarious—it’s a worthy companion to the Dan’s jazz-rock canon of bizarro characters.
R.I.P.
Whether he went solo or shared a spotlight with singers half his age, the indefatigable and self-effacing singer always put the song first.
more timely
“The Gates of Justice,” Brubeck’s 1969 masterwork, gets revived with his sons in tow, and reopens a conversation Americans need to have.
R.I.P.
Shorter won an astonishing 12 Grammy Awards and is best known for his innovative compositions.
POPS
With “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues,” filmmaker Sacha Jenkins recasts a legacy he never really knew.