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The all-star experimental jazz group will perform at Ballet Arts Studio on July 22.

A new box set compiles the jazz legend's late-life works. Plus: the best jazz releases of the month.

Aidan Levy has written a revealing, comprehensive biography of the improviser-hero Sonny Rollins.

The 22-year-old musician grew up in Tennessee idolizing tenor iconoclasts like Albert Ayler. Now she’s working with New York’s avant-garde masters.

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James Brandon Lewis, a Saxophonist Who Embodies and Transcends Tradition His new album, “Jesup Wagon,” is a tribute to another polymathic figure who insisted on cutting his own path: George Washington Carver. James Brandon Lewis read biographies of the scientist and inventor George Washington Carver before composing the seven tracks and two poems that appear on his new album, “Jesup Wagon.”Credit...Chase Hall for The New York Times May 5, 2021 When James Brandon Lewis plays the saxophon...

Intended Audience(s): Public Categories: Arts, Lectures & Seminars William Parker is a bassist, composer and community organizer widely recognized as a foundational figure in avant-jazz over the past several decades, with important collaborations with Cecil Taylor, Amiri Baraka, David S. Ware and many others. He is also a historian and scholar, and author of three important books of musician-to-musician interviews.  Cisco Bradley is a professor of American History at Pratt and the author of an...

Cisco Bradley 12 February 2021 Bassist, composer, and scene-maker William Parker has a colossal figure in creative music since the 1970s, particularly as a musician who has defined the sound of New York beyond the mainstream. His range is astonishing, but so is his focus. His recorded output is vast, particularly lately. Shying away from dealing with it all is understandable. Parker’s recordings as a leader exceed 100 albums, with sideman work—particularly with Cecil Taylor, Charles Gayle, ...

A tangle of connections fosters the bounty of William Parker’s career. The bassist—who’s released a 10-album set called Migration Of Silence Into And Out Of The Tone World that features more than a dozen musicians—is New York’s free-jazz caretaker, a performer who frequently forges symbiosis on and off the bandstand. And he’s been doing it for almost 50 years. “It’s the sound community of William Parker,” said vocalist Lisa Sokolov, who first met the bassist in the mid-1970...