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‘The house of the jazz musician is, in many ways, profoundly unassuming: low ceilings, creaky floors, wall-to-wall carpeting. In other ways, it is absolutely bonkers’
The Apple TV Plus film gives new insight into the trumpeter’s life and politics
He bore witness to black South Africans’ struggle against white minority rule
From Stevie Wonder to a 60-piece Pakistani ensemble, Dave Brubeck’s hit has travelled well
It took moral courage, not just imagination, to achieve what this generation has
Louis Armstrong’s version begins with a chorus of brass, then a piano vamp that leads into the sung narrative
The duo — who formed their first band in 1963 — displayed a mutual rapport that seemed effortless
The UK quartet succcessfully wove together the classic and the contemporary
Archie Shepp provided the big finale, while Wadada Leo Smith performed his civil rights-era epic
This concert harked back to early 1960s jam sessions in the Bronx between the two old friends
The writer Nadifa Mohamed tells Feargus O’Sullivan of life in two worlds
Recordings of Charles Mingus’s concert series catches the jazz musician at a creative peak
With live performances and recordings added, these sets are the nearest thing in the jazz canon to complete collections
Stop indulging in ‘self-fulfilling’ pessimism and fear, says PM
The definitive, limited edition retrospective shows the trumpeter’s brilliance was undimmed over 50 years
Jonathan Yardley’s reviews of neglected books
Ella Fitzgerald and Dizzy Gillespie were on the bill when George Wein launched the Newport Jazz Festival in 1954. Now 86, he explains why it is still going strong
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