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Ton Pouw / AP The Book on Miles
In his autobiography, the trumpeter Miles Davis proves to be his own most perceptive critic.
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The Singing Epidemic
All of a sudden everybody wants to be a jazz singer—and a few are actually good at it
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X Jazz
The pianist Matthew Shipp is the star of the latter-day free-jazz scene—the only scene in jazz right now with younger faces in the audience
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A Real Gone Guy
Even though the saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter never went away, his two recent albums are being hailed as a major comeback
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God’s Lonely Man
Johnny Cash was a Christian who didn't cast stones, a patriot who wasn't a bully
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Storming the Home Front
Directors of today's war movies, with their insistence on graphic bloodletting and happy endings, should look at the original World War II movies, which were subtly subversive
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Unironic
Bill Frisell draws from a wide spectrum of music identified with the American experience&mdashand country music is a persistent echo.
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Ready for Action
Despite seeing on television news what used to be confined to action movies, audiences have been flocking to them, perhaps eager for the illusion of control they offer
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All the President’s Sidemen
Savvy enough about rhythm
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Our Lady of Sorrows
Willfully unaware of the facts of her professional life, listeners persist in thinking that Billie Holiday felt their pain.
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Pacific Time
Once the novelty wears off, a vacation spot may prove to be more than just another pretty place.
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Jazz
If not exactly a golden age, the seventies was a time of remarkable artistic ferment
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Napoleon in Rags
Bob Dylan changed the popular music of his time and the music that followed, and the commercial release of a formerly bootlegged concert recording shows how he did it
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Hulton-Deutsch Collection / Corbis / Getty Swing and Sensibility
Whatever Frank Sinatra sang, he swung, and his musicianship will endure longer than the swagger that today's singers so admire
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Not Singing Too Much
A vocal performance by the pianist and songwriter Dave Frishberg is more like a series of witty asides
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Martin Mills/Getty The Man From Heaven
The songs of Burt Bacharach are enjoying a revival that seems unlikely only at first hearing.
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Victim Kitsch
With its pop sentimentality,
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Like Young
Jazz has been attracting its first young audiences in decades -- but are they hearing a music without a future?
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Bud's Bubble
The pianist Bud Powell was mad even by bebop's standards
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Infection
Stephen Sondheim ‘s Passion was more than most Broadway showgoers want from a musical
