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Mary J. Blige is intent on inspiring and empowering other women to reach their potential. But first, she had to overcome her own demons.

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Top bassist-composers pay homage to the U.K.'s most important jazz export

This set’s title suggests small strands coming together to form a greater whole, which is indeed an important aspect of Bill Dixon’s conception. Yet tapestries are inert, and Dixon’s music is not. It might move slowly much of the time, but it most c

With complete control of his record label, an innovative new Web site, and a dynamic octet capable of combo intimacy and big-band grandeur, veteran bassist Dave Holland owns his career

Combining a yen for solo projects and a career-long immersion in music technology, Pat Metheny explores another frontier: “orchestrionics”

Tomasz Stanko began his career as an ECM recording artist with 1975’s Balladyna , a post-Ornette outburst that gives little hint of the kind of trumpeter he has become. Taken together, the best of his recent work—2006’s Lontano , 2004’s Suspended

An in-demand session player, valued sideman, prolific composer and respected leader in his own right over the past 30 years, Mark Egan’s distinctive fretless bass sound has graced countless jazz and pop albums as well as award-winning movie and televisi

Now that the whole Return to Forever reunion experience is in his rearview mirror (and unlikely to be repeated ever again), guitar star Al Di Meola is pursuing his own musical vision with newfound conviction via his World Sinfonia. Essentially an acoustic

Fans of Egberto Gismonti probably expected him to play throughout his new two-CD set, but as with Meeting Point , Gismonti’s 1997 ECM outing featuring the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, classical convention trumps jazz tradition. Gismonti is merel

Throughout six decades on the jazz scene, pianist Ahmad Jamal has proven it’s possible to be a precise, restrained soloist without sacrificing soul or artistry. Perhaps the lone negative when it comes to his music is familiarity, since anyone remotely k

Pianist Tord Gustavsen is definitely pushing ahead. After three inspiring recordings working his distilled magic within the constructs of a quiet piano trio, the Norwegian bandleader has expanded his purview to include both saxophone and the human voice.

The most startling phone call I ever received was in 2004 from someone I had never met. He began by saying, “This is probably the best message you’ve ever gotten from your government.” It was Dana Gioia, then chairman of the National Endowment for t

Harry Warren won three Oscars, partnered with the cream of lyricists—Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin, Mack Gordon and Al Dubin among them—and helped add “I Found a Million Dollar Baby,” “Lullaby of Broadway” and “Jeepers Creepers” to the pop-c

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