Jazz

Ted Gioia on the Birth and Death of the Cool

by Andrew Hazlett December 10, 2009
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download Has coolness runs its course?  Are we living in a post-”cool” culture? Musician and writer Ted Gioia talks about his new book, The Birth and Death of the Cool in episode 102 of The New Modern podcast.  You can listen using the embedded player above or via iTunes.  [...]

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Louis Armstrong: Terry Teachout’s stirring new biography of the jazz icon

by Andrew Hazlett November 23, 2009

Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong by Terry Teachout. The new biography of the jazz icon gets a rave review in the New York Times.

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