Born on the south side : exploring Chicago gospel,
... jazz, and blues, then and now (in three Parts) -- Can music save the church that gave birth to gospel? -- The drill sergeant of DuSable -- Faded blues -- Street scenes : music bubbling up from the pavement -- St. John the saxist -- A groovable feast -- In the home of jazz, swing definitely not the thing -- Heavenly choir -- Night school -- Havana's pulse: at the nexus of Afro-Cuban jazz -- Homegrown virtuosos -- "I may never get to the heart of jazz" -- Link to the past : Compay Segundo upholds the traditions of a more romantic era -- Back in the swing : the spotlight is finally reaching an early master of Afro-Cuban jazz -- Latin evolution: the remarkable Cachao is the real mambo king -- Sound architect : Buena Vista's unsung hero brings his band to Chicago -- Musings on Satchmo : behind the famous facade (in two parts) -- Jazz giant's private views show anger behind smile -- The thoroughly human side of a jazz virtuoso -- Crisis of culture in New Orleans : the aftermath of hurricane Katrina (in four parts) -- Battered by Katrina -- The long march back -- Treasures of music lovers now just so much debris -- The struggle to reclaim threads of the past -- Ellington's legacy: grasping an enormous oeuvre -- Maestro's mystique -- Fans recover Ellington's lost musical -- Silent for thirty-five years, Ellington's restored musical celebrates black culture, composer's genius -- Lost classics -- The unknown Ellington -- Sinatra songs : listening anew to the voice -- A bouquet for Sinatra -- Frank Sinatra: the virtuoso -- The memory of all that-- -- "The sound of surprise" : unexpected developments in jazz -- Let freedom swing -- The measure of jazz -- Completely hot: Live at the Plugged Nickel -- Maturity isn't the right key in today's jazz -- Landmark blues opera De Organizer powerfully reborn -- Lady has her say -- Gershwin reconsidered : assessing America's quintessential composer, a century later -- Bittersweet rhapsody -- Gershwin at one hundred -- Porgy and Bess -- Race music: crossing the color line-in sound -- "It took our minds off of the bad things" -- Coming to America -- Anniversary tune -- "Strange fruit" : the song too painful to sing -- Chicago radicals : the alluring eccentrics of Chicago jazz -- Ragtime blues : Reginald Robinson -- Patricia Barber has built her career defying conventions -- Jazzman : Kurt Elling -- Jazz lovers are beating a path to Fred Anderson and his Velvet Lounge -- Chicago jazzman among "genius grant" winners: Ken Vandermark -- Profiles in jazz : major voices speak -- Herbie's blues -- Nobody knows the trouble she's seen : Dee Dee Bridgewater -- Ornette Coleman still blazing a musical trail -- The last diva : Lena Horne -- Von Freeman is Chicago jazz history -- Panama's vanished music: searching for the missing link of jazz-in Panama (in three parts) -- A culture with a lost past -- "I've got to go back home" -- Falling on deaf ears -- Farewells : final parting from the masters -- Legendary farewell : Lionel Hampton -- Sounding the trumpet : Miles Davis -- An underrated legend: Ella Fitzgerald -- A free-form life : Sun Ra -- Favors's spirit will live on through music -- Spirit of Dorsey's songs fills his "home-going". Read More
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