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From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner, a passionate, profound story of love and obsession based on the hopes, fears, and deep realities of Black urban life. With a foreword by the author. “As rich in themes and poetic images as her Pulitzer Prize–winning Beloved.... Morrison conjures up the...

A "radiantly accomplished" (Wall Street Journal) music scholar presents an accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively introduction to one of America's premier art forms. He tells us what to listen for...

Jazz is a uniquely American art form, one of America's great contributions to not only musical culture, but world culture, with each generation of musicians applying new levels of creativity that take the music in unexpected directions that defy definition, category, and stagnation. Now you can learn the basics and history of this intoxicating genre in an eight-lecture series that is as free-flowing and original as the art form itself.

"A dauntingly ambitious, obsessively researched" (Los Angeles Times) global history of music that reveals how songs have shifted societies and sparked revolutions. Histories of music overwhelmingly suppress stories of the outsiders and rebels who created musical revolutions and instead celebrate...

This program includes an introduction read by the author. A stunning, in-depth look at the power and poetry of one of the most consequential rappers of our time. Kendrick Lamar is one of the most influential rappers, songwriters and record producers of his generation. Widely known for his...

Le jazz des origines, swing, big bands et dixieland

“Moving, thoughtful, redemptive. The Strangers is an important book. It will become a Black classic.”— Ben Okri, author of The Famished Road “Thrilling and ingenious, propulsive and genre-defying: The Strangers is an outstanding book. Compelling and imaginatively expansive, this is...

More than 50 years ago, John Coltrane drew the 12 musical notes in a circle and connected them with straight lines, forming a five-pointed star. Inspired by Einstein, Coltrane had put physics and geometry at the core of his music. Physicist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander returns the favor, using jazz to answer physics' most vexing questions about the past and future of the universe.

A bestselling music historian follows Jelly Roll Morton on a journey through the hidden worlds and forbidden songs of early blues and jazz. In Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs and Hidden Histories, Elijah Wald takes readers on a journey into the hidden and censored world of early blues and jazz...

Black Music is a book about the brilliant young jazz musicians of the early 1960s: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Sun Ra, and others. It is composed of essays, reviews, interviews, liner notes, musical analyses, and personal impressions from 1959-1967. Also includes Amiri Baraka's reflections in a 2009 interview with Calvin Reid of Publishers Weekly.

When the Nicholas Brothers danced, uptown at the Cotton Club, downtown at the Roxy, in segregated movie theatres in the South, and dance halls across the country, audiences cheered, clapped, stomped their feet, and shouted out uncontrollably. In Brotherhood in Rhythm, Constance Valis Hill interweaves an intimate portrait of these great performers with a rich, detailed history of jazz music and dance, both bringing their act to life and explaining their significance through a colorful analysis of their eloquent footwork, their full-bodied expressiveness, and their changing style.

Raccontiamo la città che cambia

Talks with Jazz is an authentic and thought-provoking podcast hosted by Jazz, a voice that isn’t afraid to dive into the real questions of life, relationships, and society. Through open conversations and honest reflections, Jazz explores topics that matter — from personal growth and human connection to the challenges and dynamics of our modern world. Created as a safe space for dialogue and deeper understanding, Talks with Jazz is about breaking down barriers, questioning norms, and sparking conversations that resonate beyond the mic. Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/fr/...

Offering an insider’s view of my worldwide adventures as a professional jazz musician for 45 years, along with reflections on my broader life today.

Ben und Tim auf Gedankenreise durch den Dschungel des Lebens. Eine lockere Unterhaltung über Dinge die uns bewegen. Wir sprechen Themen wie Beziehungen, Glück, persönliches Wachstum und moderne Moral auf direkte und ehrliche Weise an. Regelmäßig packen wir unsere Koffer und reisen mit dir durch die Welt um uns mit Menschen zu unterhalten und so zu entschlüsseln was zu einem glücklichen Leben gehört.

W. Eugene Smith was a famous photo essayist for LIFE magazine and a suburban family man when he left it all in 1957 and moved to a rundown loft in Manhattan. The building had already become a popular hangout and jamming space for jazz players both prominent and obscure, and Smith spent the next decade documenting the music, conversations and personalities that passed through. This program, produced and hosted by Sara Fishko and originally heard as a 10-part radio series in 2009, pulls from the 4,000 hours of audio Smith recorded.

Jazz accounted for just 1 percent of all record sales in the United States in 2015, according to Nielsen’s year-end report. But jazz buyers do purchase albums: Almost half of those jazz records were bought in physical form.

"For a Niche Jazz Label, Vinyl Is the Future" is from the December 26, 2016 Arts section of The New York Times. It was written by Giovanni Russonello and narrated by Corey M. Snow.

A podcast guidebook for navigating grad school, from the University of Washington's Communication Leadership Master's Program

Jazz, Just The Way We Like it is a weekly podcast series discussing and playing those jazz classic songs of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. Discussing jazz, politics, and social issues.

A weekly show on Kenyon College's radio network, WKCO 91.9. Jazz of the World explores Jazz from different parts of the world and their respective eras. It's educational, good vibes and great music.