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Are We In or Out?

The Zen Gangster Speaks • NICHOLAS PAYTON on lockdown, instrument juggling, and his new album with Ron Carter, Karriem Riggins, and George Coleman

Return to Fort Adams • Highlights of the 2021 NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL

Parallel Paths Converge • Whether it’s jazz, anthropology, or puppetry, SARAH WILSON’s got it

Toward a World Jazz • British up-and-comer NATHANIEL CROSS praises the polyglot

Indigenous Individualist • Trumpeter DELBERT ANDERSON takes inspiration from Navajo culture

Farewells

FURTHER LISTENING

Learning the Language • The early bebop education of HOWARD McGHEE

Gerald Clayton • In the vanguard, at the Vanguard

Ed Neumeister • The veteran trombonist learns by playing

RECOMMENDED LISTENING

ONE-WOMAN ORCHESTRA • GEORGIA ANNE MULDROW and the light that streams from within

WHAT IS JAZZ? • Notable musicians consider an old question that warrants re-asking in the year 2021

Eight Freedom Decades • WADADA LEO SMITH looks back on the most productive period of his life—and forward to turning 80

THE FIRE THIS TIME • TERENCE BLANCHARD is making history at the Metropolitan Opera—and paying his respects to Wayne Shorter

Miles in Every Room • Getting jazz throughout your home is much easier than it used to be—and might not cost you a dime

Down to Brass Tacks • BOB STEWART, JENNIFER WHARTON, RILEY MULHERKAR, and DR. REGINALD CHAPMAN discuss challenging sui-generis brass settings

Leitmotifs “R” Us • The (somewhat) heroic tale of the Wagner tuba

5 FOR THE ROAD

Closing the Book • Bassist Mario Pavone’s last musical testaments

BILL EVANS • Behind the Dikes: The 1969 Netherlands Recordings

SAMARA JOY • Samara Joy

EMMA-JEAN THACKRAY • Yellow

URI CAINE • The Passion of Octavius Catto Remix

TROY ROBERTS & TIM JAGO • Best Buddies

Harmonicats and Other Influencers • A jazz harmonica virtuoso recommends music by the artists who lit his way