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Screening at Sundance: David Greaves’s ‘Once Upon A Time In Harlem’

After more than 50 years, the documentary filmmaker's son brings his father’s greatest feat to stunning completion

By Siddhant Adlakha

Ailey’s Angels: A Look at the Company’s New York City Center 2024 Season

In classics and world premieres, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater brings us as close as we can get to the ultimate unknown.

By Caedra Scott-Flaherty

Drummer Charlie Watts’ Sizable Rare Book Collection Heads to Auction

The Rolling Stones drummer was "devoted to jazz and literature from boyhood," according to his former bandmates.

By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly

Nels Cline on Why Playing Jazz Has Never Been More Important

By Justin Joffe

Mixing Big Band Jazz With James Brown Soul, No One Plays It Like Christian McBride

By Will Friedwald

How Foxygen Channelled L.A.’s Rich Music History on ‘Hang’

By Justin Joffe

Miroslav Vitouš Celebrates the Groundbreaking Jazz of The Weather Report

By Ron Hart

How New York City Became the Epicenter of Jazz

By Ted Gioia

The Sinatra-Strayhorn Connection

By Matthew Kassel

It’s V-Day, Dammit!

By George Gurley

Duke Ellington’s Legacy Inspires Painters’ Moody Blues

By Mario Naves

Currently Hanging

By Mario Naves

Burns’ Jazz Doesn’t Swing

By William Berlind

Wu-Tang Clan: Hotel Paranoia

By NYO Staff

Pretty Woman, Dopey Guy … Who Wrote It? Who Cares?

By Rex Reed

Take the A Train Downtown for Ellington Centennial

By Joseph Hooper