Terence Blanchard’s jazz-inflected work tells the real-life story of the boxer Emile Griffith, haunted by guilt when an opponent died after a fight.
Tag: Jazz
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Solange Curates Powerful Performances of Black Joy and Pain at BAM
Through Saint Heron, the musician brought Angélla Christie and the Clark Sisters for a night exploring Black religious music, and Linda Sharrock and Archie Shepp for a show that felt anything but safe.
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5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mary Lou Williams
We asked a dozen musicians, scholars and critics to help take us on a tour of the music and mind of a pianist whose decades-long career made her a Mount Rushmore figure in jazz.
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Wayne Shorter, a Jazz Hero Whose Goal Was ‘to Fear Nothing’
The saxophonist, who died on Thursday at 89, redefined jazz composition by embracing the unknown. Listen to nine of his recordings with Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell, Esperanza Spalding and more.
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Wayne Shorter, Intrepid Saxophonist and Composer, Dies at 89
His career reached across more than half a century, tracking jazz’s complex evolution during that span.