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Adam Shatz is a Contributing Editor at the London Review of Books. (June 2020)
An Invitation from Jeanne Lee
The Newest Sound Around
an album by Jeanne Lee and Ran Blake
The Newest Sound You Never Heard: European Studio Recordings 1966/1967
an album by Jeanne Lee and Ran Blake
Free Standards: Stockholm 1966
an album by Jeanne Lee and Ran Blake
June 11, 2020 issue
The Apostle of Now-ness
Studio 105, Paris 1967
an album by the Don Cherry Trio
Home Boy, Sister Out
an album by Don Cherry
Brown Rice
an album by Don Cherry
The Codona Trilogy
an album by Don Cherry, Naná Vasconcelos, and Collin Walcott
June 6, 2019 issue
The Mythologies of R.B.
Barthes: A Biography
by Tiphaine Samoyault, translated from the French by Andrew Brown
The Friendship of Roland Barthes
by Philippe Sollers, translated from the French by Andrew Brown
Album: Unpublished Correspondence and Texts
by Roland Barthes, translated from the French by Jody Gladding
June 7, 2018 issue
Bad Boy from Buffalo
Gay Guerrilla: Julius Eastman and His Music
edited by Renée Levine Packer and Mary Jane Leach
Unjust Malaise
an album by Julius Eastman
The Zürich Concert
an album by Julius Eastman
Femenine
an album by Julius Eastman
May 10, 2018 issue
Silence Bigger Than a Table
Solo: Reflections and Meditations on Monk
an album by Wadada Leo Smith
February 8, 2018 issue
The Sorcerer of Jazz
What gave Miles Davis’s music its cohesion, even its identity, was his unforgettable sound
Miles Ahead
a film directed by Don Cheadle
Bitches Brew
by George Grella Jr.
September 29, 2016 issue
The Fierce Courage of Nina Simone
She did not so much interpret songs as take possession of them
What Happened, Miss Simone?
a Netflix documentary film directed by Liz Garbus
What Happened, Miss Simone?: A Biography
by Alan Light
March 10, 2016 issue
Le Jazz Hot
After Django: Making Jazz in Postwar France
by Tom Perchard
Jazz/Black Power
by Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli, translated from the French by Grégory Pierrot
July 9, 2015 issue
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