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Andra Day – United States vs Billie Holiday (Warner Bros): “Cassandra Monique Batie (born December 30, 1984), known professionally as Andra Day, is an American singer, songwriter, and actor. In 2015, she released her debut album, Cheers to the Fall. At the 2016 Grammy Awards, the album was nominated for Best R&B Album and the single, “Rise Up”, was nominated for Best R&B Performance. To promote “Rise Up”, she performed the song on The View, the performance earned her a Daytime Emmy...

Jason Matthews, C.I.A. Officer Turned Novelist, Dies at 69 After 33 years at the agency, he turned out three well-received novels that included realistic details of espionage — and appearances by Vladimir Putin. The novelist and former intelligence operative Jason Matthews in Bryant Park in Manhattan in 2015. His fiction, he said, was “an amalgam of people I’ve known, of things I’ve done, of stuff I’ve lived.”Credit...Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times May 2, 2021, 11:29 a.m. ET Ja...

After 33 years with the spy agency, he published three novels known for their realistic depictions of tradecraft.

Record Store Day 2021: A list of jazz records for vinyl collectors By Adam Feibel Mick Haupt / Unsplash The 14th edition of Record Store Day will take place in two different “drops” in June and July, featuring more than 400 special releases combined. Taking place annually since 2008, Record Store Day sees collectors flock to indie record stores across the globe to scope out a lineup of special vinyl releases, including rarities, reissues and box sets. Here’s a curated list of some of the...

Oh and Sorey arent mere collaborators or accompanists; theyre educators and composers in their own rights. Of Soreys drumming, Iyer cites a "life-sustaining kind of magic." And of Ohs bass playing, "Her awareness of and relation to pulse, its like micro-detail," he says. Those qualities and more can be found on  Uneasy, the trios first studio record, which drops April 9 on ECM Records. The album is a mix of topical material "Children of Flint" with Iyer originals ("Combat Breathing") and stand...

Guitar virtuoso Julian Lage shares "Boo's Blues," the second song from his soon-to-be-released Blue Note Records debut album, Squint, out June 11. The loping swing feel of "Boo’s Blues" exemplifies Lage’s ability to write with his bandmates in mind while echoing his influences. “I like to imagine this music being played by the titans of bass and drums,” Lage says. “I'm imagining Billy Higgins, I'm imagining Art Taylor, I'm imagining Wilbur Ware, ...

Bill Spilka/Getty Images Billie Holiday performs at the Newport Jazz Festival on July 6, 1957  in Newport, Rhode Island. If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, we may receive an affiliate commission. The release of the Lee Daniels Hulu Originals film, The United States vs. Billie Holiday, has inspired new and longtime jazz enthusiasts to learn more about the musical geniuses behind their favorite records. Some of the best books about jazz d...

Matthew Alec & The Soul Electric – Cleveland Time (Cleveland Time): “Cleveland Time marks the first album release from the group that features Matthew Alec (tenor saxophone and EWI), Brian Woods (piano, keyboards, organs, plus vocals on “Give What You Take” and “Baby You Got Me”), Steven Forest Sanders (guitar, plus vocals on “Enigma Man”), Jared Lees (bass), Jeremiah Hawkins (percussion, plus drums on “Baby You Got Me”), and Leon Henault (drums). The album also features sp...

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At the Scene, Spring Issue #167 Hello Everyone! Look who we found hiding out with the crockery at a Connecticut estate sale! Because the sale included items from many sources, there’s no easy way to establish ownership. But, of course, there are only a few people that it could have belonged to. Was it Jack Webb’s Edgar for the radio drama Dragnet? It would be fitting if it once belonged to John Collier. For this issue, Art Taylor assigned himself the task of reading all the Edgar short sto...