Music

New Biography Reveals The Life And Legacy Of Saxophonist Dexter Gordon

1:24pm November 27, 2018

Gordon started out as a bebop prodigy in the '40s, and went on to star in the '86 film 'Round Midnight. Maxine Gordon captures her late husband's voice and music in the book Sophisticated Giant.

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Bethlehem Steel's "Fake Sweater" appears on a new split EP with Washer.

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Weather The Winter With Bethlehem Steel's 'Fake Sweater'

11:27am November 27, 2018

by Kristy Guilbault

The hammering single comes from the band's forthcoming split EP with fellow Brooklynites Washer.

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Jeff Tweedy On Anxiety, Addiction And A Lifetime Making Art

11:21am November 27, 2018

by Bob Boilen

Tweedy has written a book that's incredibly open-hearted and honest, filled with stories of insecurities, drug dependencies and thoughtful reflections.

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A still from Sharon Van Etten's "Jupiter 4" video.

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Sharon Van Etten's Synth-Driven 'Jupiter 4' Illuminates A Dark Palette

10:22am November 27, 2018

by Lars Gotrich

Sharon Van Etten's "Jupiter 4" meditates on a love so real that it echoes throughout your psyche.

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Lefty Frizzell Box Set Showcases The Original Recordings Of A Country Classic

2:16pm November 26, 2018

by Ken Tucker

Though he's widely considered one of the best country-music artists of all time, Frizzell's music is not well known or widely heard today. Ken Tucker says An Article From Life aims to correct that.

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Bob Dylan and Jimmy Fallon drink sponsored whiskey at the circus.

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Fallon Takes Bob Dylan To The Circus – Or Is It Vice-Versa?

1:39pm November 26, 2018

by Stephen Thompson

A late-night talk-show host and an icon sit alone in a vast theater, sipping drinks and watching approvingly as Big Apple Circus acrobats do their thing.

Hatchie and her band inside the World Cafe Performance Studio.

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Hatchie On World Cafe

1:18pm November 26, 2018

by Stephen Kallao

Harriette Pilbeam talks about striking out as a solo artist and capturing the sparkling sounds of 90s pop on her debut EP, Sugar & Spice.

U.S. Navy CPO Graham Jackson, with tears of grief, plays "Goin' Home," from Dvorak's 'New World' Symphony, as President Franklin D. Roosevelt's body is carried from Warm Springs, Ga., where he died.

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How The 'New World' Symphony Introduced American Music To Itself

10:41am November 24, 2018

by Tom Huizenga

Sometimes it takes an outsider to see a culture clearly. Czech composer Antonin Dvorak's Ninth Symphony was an ode to what American music could become.

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Matthew Herbert believes that a big band is the ideal ensemble to give a musical voice to the idea of the EU.

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Matthew Herbert Sets The EU To Music With His Brexit Big Band

7:53am November 24, 2018

by Esme Nicholson

The British musician is on a tour of Europe, apologizing for Brexit, the plan by Britain's government to leave the EU. The last performance is scheduled for the same day leaders are gathering to finalize a potential Brexit deal.

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Encore: Lee Greenwood's 'God Bless The U.S.A.'

4:08pm November 23, 2018

by Don Gonyea

Singer-songwriter Lee Greenwood talks about his 1984 hit "God Bless the U.S.A." Now 75 and still touring, Greenwood had lived a whole career before he wrote the song that would come to define him.