Lex Futshane, the South African bass player in the 1992 student band NU Jazz Connection, was the first to tell me that the ...

Exiled for much of his career, he was acknowledged universally as a pioneer and a leading light of the international free jazz scene.

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In 1968, a 16-year-old kid booked the jazz legend to perform at his high school. More than five decades later, a forgotten ...

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The performer and composer’s musical career spanned six decades, more than 30 albums, two Grammy Awards and garnered him ...

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The only major Black-owned bookstore in Manhattan has been an influential resource in Harlem for the last 25 years and now needs community support.

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