A Sacred Space Where 90-Year-Old Jazz Records Reign

At the Hot Club of New York, patrons revisit the music’s past by spinning shellac 78 RPM discs of recordings made in the 1910s to ’50s.

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Some of the Greatest American Music You’ve Never Heard Of

Why has the genius of these Black innovators been consigned to academic conferences?

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How Wendell Pierce Spends His Day Exploring New York City

Mr. Pierce, the popular actor from shows like “The Wire,” said time is precious. He spends his shopping in Harlem, walking through Central Park and staying up all night listening to jazz.

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How Bernie Williams Got to Carnegie Hall

The former Yankees center fielder has played the guitar since he was a teenager. Now he’s appearing in concert.

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Ronny Whyte, Cabaret Singer Who Personified Elegance, Dies at 88

Like his friend and mentor Bobby Short, he exuded haute style while imbuing American standards with grace and wit.

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Ronny Whyte, Cabaret Singer Who Personified Elegance, Dies at 88

Like his friend and mentor Bobby Short, he exuded haute style while imbuing American standards with grace and wit.

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Hermeto Pascoal, Prolific Brazilian Composer, Dies at 89

A self-taught multi-instrumentalist, he rose from a childhood of rural privation to become a favorite of jazz musicians and audiences around the world.

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Miles Davis Catalog Sells to Reservoir Media, a Small but Savvy Player

Reservoir, led by Golnar Khosrowshahi, has acquired the majority of music rights owned by the Davis estate ahead of the jazz master’s centennial next year.

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Ziad Rahbani, Composer Who Defined a Tragic Era in Lebanon, Dies at 69

A son of Lebanese musical icons, he became one himself, with satirical critiques of his country’s dysfunction that melded Arab and Western music.

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Ziad Rahbani, Composer Who Defined a Tragic Era in Lebanon, Dies at 69

A son of Lebanese musical icons, Mr. Rahbani became one himself, with satirical critiques of his country’s dysfunction that melded Arab and Western music.

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