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The Halloween Jazz Playlist

The Halloween Jazz Playlist

From Eartha Kitt to Marvin Gaye to Louis Armstrong and everything in between, get your spook on

October 31, 2023

‘Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues’: A New Documentary Humanizes the Music Innovator

Filmmaker Sacha Jenkins talks about what he learned about one of American music’s greatest artists in the process of sifting…

January 6, 2023

6 Historic Moments in Music from the Twenties

It was known as the jazz age but there was a fair bit of blues, dance, Broadway and country too

May 14, 2019

15 Artists Who Went Years Between Hits

From Cher’s record-smashing “Believe” to Louis Prima’s posthumous comeback, we look back at musicians who made their way back to…

September 17, 2018

Jazz Corner: Imitation, Flattery And Tributes

From Louis Armstrong paying tribute to Fats Waller to Kurt Elling's dedication to John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman

January 16, 2017

Tribute: Benny Soans – The Man, The Music

Mumbai drummer Benoni Asher Soans's sense of timing was so immaculate that even in his passing, he made a clean,…

January 11, 2017

Concert Review: Igor Butman at N.C.P.A., Mumbai

The Russian tenor saxophonist thrilled a packed house with jazz classics along with surprise performances from young Indian artists

October 18, 2016

Time and Change: The Freedom in Jazz

"If you gotta ask you will never know" - the famous Louis Armstrong responding to someone asking him to define…

December 21, 2015

The 100 Greatest Jazz Songs

Here's our list of classics from the Forties to present time

June 10, 2015