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Lady Day of the Alhambra

by Ian Penman,

Billie Holiday’s changeable shade

Death and Saxes

From entries in The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins, which will be published in April by New York Review Books. Another good day to think and be thankful for. There is…

Compose Yourself

by Henry Threadgill, Brent Hayes Edwards,

From Easily Slip into Another World, which will be published this month by Knopf. Toward the end of July 1971, I go to see Duke Ellington with his orchestra. This…

Book of the Living

by Marina Magloire,

The house museums of New Orleans

When Beale Street Was Hot

by Greg Tate,

From an interview with the critic and historian Greg Tate, conducted for Ain’t But a Few of Us, a collection of conversations with black jazz critics, edited by Willard Jenkins,…

Solo Act

by Thomas Chatterton Williams,

A decade ago, when my fiancée and I were living in a semilegal converted nylon factory in Bushwick, Brooklyn, and I’d just published my first book—a coming-of-age memoir into which…