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The New Yorker's 100 Essential Jazz Albums (All About Jazz)

While finishing “Bird-Watcher," a Profile of the jazz broadcaster and expert Phil Schaap, I thought it might be useful to compile a list of a hundred essential jazz albums, more as a guide for the uninitiated than as a source of quarrelling for the collector.

Keeping Jazz Makers Alive (The Village Voice)

Evicted or with no medical insurance, musicians playing their last chorus are saved by the Jazz Foundation (By Nat Hentoff)

Sinatra 10 years later: To young stars, Ol' Blue Eyes is an 'all-timer' (USA Today)

As Bono once observed, Frank Sinatra didn't care much for rock music. But the U2 frontman spoke for many baby-boomer pop stars when he added, "The feeling is not mutual. Rock 'n' roll people love Frank because Frank has got what we want: swagger and attitude."

Deja Blues: Keb' Mo' is Coming Back...and We Didn't Even Have to Send Him a Gift Basket (The Source Weekly)

There are few artists who just keep coming back to Central Oregon, eventually emerging as local favorites, even if the musician already has all the national and international fame and respect of which he or she could dream. While it’s understandable that big-name acts with big reputations and discographies would pull the 40-foot tour bus off of I-5 long enough to pack 5,000 sun burned, ...

Adrian Sherwood (The Phoenix)

Becoming a Cliché/Dub Cliché | Real World Have no fear: Real World’s reissue of producer Adrian Sherwood’s second solo album from 2006 is a fantastic choice for dubdorks and dubnewbs alike.