James Johnson

Blogs
March 8, 2011
Live: Tyondai Braxton And The Wordless Music Orchestra Entrance A Sea Of Turtlenecks At Lincoln Center
Not as many hoodies in this crowd as you might expect. Pic by Jenn.Tyondai Braxton with the Wordless Music Orchestra Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center Monday, March 7 Better Than: Watching Fantasia alone in the dark on a Monday night Tyondai Braxton's 2009 solo record Central Market rightfu ... More >>
Music
October 13, 2010
Ahmad Jamal, Vindicated
A new six-CD box makes the same case fellow jazz musicians have made for decades
Music
June 1, 2010
The Jazz Evangelism of Woody Allen
Clarinet in hand, the director defends one of America's disappearing art forms
News
May 11, 2010
The NYPD Tapes, Part 2
Bed-Stuy street cops ordered: Turn this place into a ghost town
Music
May 4, 2010
The Rent Parties of 2010
Now on the Upper West Side and featuring French cuisine, but the jazz-loving intimacy remains
Voice Choices
January 7, 2009
Roswell Rudd+the Lafayette Harris Duo
Music
November 5, 2008
Wilderness' (k)no(w)here Unleashes a Madcap Urban-Pastoral Cacophony
Blogs
September 11, 2008
Lehman Wasn't Too Poor to Buy Obama, McCain
Blogs
June 11, 2008
The Obama Vice-President Committee 'Controversy': Has the Press Forgotten About Cheney?
Blogs
June 11, 2008
The Obama Vice-President Committee 'Controversy': Has the Press Forgotten About Cheney?
NYC Life
July 24, 2007
The Death of Disco
The frantic rise and fatal fall of hip-hop producer Disco D
Blogs
August 30, 2005
New York Indie-Rock Audiences Are Stupid
Music
April 19, 2005
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Music
July 13, 2004
Dancing in Her Head
A perfectionist who takes pride in not being prolific contacts Evans and Mingus online
Books
May 25, 2004
Books
Music
May 25, 2004
Fleishedik and Milchedik
Jazzing the classics and classing the jazzers from Jelly Roll Morton to Uri Caine
Music
May 25, 2004
Summer Jazz 2004
Music
October 22, 2002
Purely Piano
Iverson, Iyer, and Moran Go It Alone at the Jazz Standard
Music
November 27, 2001
Bad Haircut, Good Ragtime
Brun Campbell Takes Scott Joplin’s Lessons to the Wild Bunch
News
June 8, 1999
Rockin' in Rhythm
Edited by Gary Giddins
Coordinated by Elora Alexander
Music
March 9, 1999
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