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JazzTimes • AMERICA’S JAZZ MAGAZINE

Virtually Yours

Back in the Lead • Organist RONNIE FOSTER scratches a 35-year itch

NEW GROOVES

Authentic to the Moment • Triple threat JENNIFER HARTSWICK explores her current truth in song

Growing Season • KALIA VANDEVER is not afraid to evolve

Farewells

Dropping a Sigh • An inside look at what may be KENNY DORHAM’s greatest solo

Kirk Knuffke • The cornetist and trumpeter digs Don Cherry, Ornette, Butch Morris, Lester Bowie, and more

Enrico Rava • At 83, the Italian trumpet star puts lung cancer in his rearview and celebrates a new collaboration with Fred Hersch

Special Assembly • JACOB GARCHIK explores the fruitful territory where the spiritual meets the studio

The Quiet One • NATALIE CRESSMAN is a trombonist who’s also a singer/songwriter, an individualist who’s super-tight with her family, and a multifaceted artist who gets radical by turning down the volume

AND THEN THERE WERE FOUR • THE BAD PLUS is, co-founder Dave King says, “whatever we say it is.” As of now, that means it’s a quartet, with saxophonist Chris Speed, guitarist Ben Monder—and, for the first time since the group was founded more than two decades ago, no pianist.

A New Kind of Blue(tooth) • Can new technologies elevate Bluetooth wireless audio to please picky listeners?

Fountain of Wayne • The revived Candid label issues a 2017 live recording of Wayne Shorter with serious friends

REVIEWS

THUMBSCREW • Multicolored Midnight

MILES DAVIS • The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7: That’s What Happened 1982-1985

TARBABY FEAT. OLIVER LAKE • Dance of the Evil Toys

Miles’ Blue Clusters • The recordings that surround jazz’s most famous album