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Pavement Play First 'Real' Reunion Show in Central Park

Tim Mosenfelder, Getty Images For a moment in September 2009, there was the brief notion that ... Read More »

Jazz Drummer Steve Reid Dead at 66

Steve Reid, a jazz drummer who worked with the likes of Miles Davis, James Brown and, more recently, ... Read More »

Jerry Dammers Blasts the Specials Over Hometown Show

The long-running feud between reformed ska superstars the Specials and founder member Jerry Dammers ... Read More »

Stage Name Stories: Sun Ra

Born: Herman Poole Blount What's in a Name: The eccentric jazzman, who claimed he was from Saturn, ... Read More »

Jazz Drummer Steve Reid's Spontaneous Return to Africa

When Steve Reid first went to Senegal in 1966 -- by container ship in a journey meant as a reverse ... Read More »

Who Is That Fela Fella? A Guide to the Father of Afrobeat

The Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra pay musical homage to him. Musiq Soulchild has been talking him up ... Read More »