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A Half-Century of Thanks

The Detroit Jazz Festival Finds a Way • It happened over Labor Day weekend as usual, but that was the only thing usual about it

Out of Four, One • Amid personnel changes, THE ROYAL BOPSTERS keep their group identity alive

Heart Specialist • An exhibit in Philadelphia pays tribute to the multidisciplinary accomplishments of MILFORD GRAVES

The McNeil-Levy Rapport • ALLEGRA LEVY puts words to John McNeil’s music on Lose My Number

FAREWELLS

Another Time, Another Listen • MEREDITH D’AMBROSIO’s 1981 album is a great introduction to her work

The Best of B&A: Time’s Up Edition • Selections from our favorite listening sessions on jazz’s distaff side

THEN to NOW THE HISTORY OF JazzTimes

LOOKING BACK at LOOKING BACK • FROM THE JAZZTIMES ARCHIVES: GREAT MUSICIANS TALK ONE-ON-ONE ABOUT OTHER GREAT MUSICIANS

THE TOP 50 Jazz Albums of the Past 50 Years

UKULELE IKE SINGS AGAIN • The artist otherwise known as Cliff Edwards—born 125 years ago—was a major American pop star and an important early force in jazz. It’s time to give him another hearing.

A Caffeinated Centennial • The inimitable PEGGY LEE would have turned 100 this year. In honor of that milestone, we present—in an exclusive excerpt from Tish Oney’s recent book Peggy Lee: A Century of Song—a detailed examination of Lee’s 1953 masterwork Black Coffee.

The Ballad of Miles and prince • In the mid-1980s, two creative titans met, one from the jazz world and one from the pop world. A newly expanded, multi-disc exploration of Prince’s ’87 masterpiece Sign o’ the Times partly reveals what happened—and what could have been—between them.

Into the Madhouse • The Story of a Mysterious Side Project

The Stuff of Streams • Jazz concerts will be online for the foreseeable future. How can we get the best sound from them?

Among the Magyars • The latest Keith Jarrett live solo album is a Hungarian gem

NEIL SWAINSON QUINTET

YELLOWJACKETS

MANUEL VALERA NEW CUBAN EXPRESS BIG BAND

50 Years On: A 1970 Playlist • In spite of the circumstances that have befallen the globe in 2020, I am thankful for this moment as I sit to reflect on God’s enduring mercy and to celebrate JazzTimes in its 50th year of existence. As I am also celebrating my own 50th year, I was excited to receive an invitation from JazzTimes’ editor Mac Randall to contribute a playlist of songs from our birth year, 1970. While assembling it, I was reminded of several folklorists and literary heroes that have inspired me with their work over the years: James Baldwin, Samuel and Ann Charters, Moses Asch, Alan Lomax, and lastly, the biggest thank-you possible to a former disc jockey at WWOZ New Orleans, Louise “Blue Lou” Wehner, for giving me the best mix tape ever made.