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Stanley Crouch

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2012

    Live: Remembering The Glorious Life Of New York Jazz Heroine Phoebe Jacobs

    A Celebration of the Wonderful World Of Phoebe Jacobs Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center Thursday, May 24 The voice that filled Rose Hall first at the Thursday afternoon memorial for Phoebe Jacobs was Jacobs's own. There was her face, too, projected on a large screen in a first-tier box. It all mi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2012

    Live: Nicholas Payton And Guests Don't Need All That Jazz

    Nicholas Payton with Gary Bartz, Marcus Strickland, Ben Wolfe, Orrin Evans, and TourĂ© Birdland Thursday, January 5 Better than: Having a "discussion" on the Internet. If Nicholas Payton had it his way, the venue where he moderated a discussion last night—Birdland—would not be known a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2010

    Treme Character Works for The Village Voice, Is Accurate, Awesome

    ​The Wire creator David Simon's new show Treme has been called both "TV that viewers ask for but rarely get" and by another: "Boring." Most of us here, however, think it's pretty wonderful. Especially since the show now features a character who works at the Village Voice on it!

  • Music

    January 19, 2010

    Michael Jackson and the Endless Summer of Death

    What the King of Pop left behind, and what he took with him

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2010

    Esquire Responds to the Firestorm of Criticism Surrounding Their Jay-Z Profile

    ​You remember this profile--the one that described Jay-Z as "old-school double-dark-chocolate-chunk black"? The one that bowed down before the altar of Steve Stoute, of all people, and more or less claimed that Jay's fans cower in the closet, hiding from the overwhelming evidence that the rapp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2009

    From the Voice Archives: Stanley Crouch on the Cross-Cultural Continuity of Michael Jackson in 1987

    In honor of Michael Jackson, we're raiding our archives. Here's Stanley Crouch, writing in response to twin hit pieces on Jackson (by Greg Tate and Guy Trebay) published in the Voice two months prior. Man in the Mirror By Stanley Crouch November 17, 1987 Because Afro-Americans have presented chal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2009

    Week in Review: I Want to Be Michael Jackson When I Grow Up

    The news that obliterated the week that was: MJ. Our remembrance here, plus the complete Michael Jackson Voice archives, as written by the dream team of Robert Christgau, Chuck Eddy, Greg Tate, Vince Aletti, Stanley Crouch, Guy Trebay, Nelson George, Elvis Mitchell, Simon Frith, and Scott Poulson-Br ... More >>

  • Music

    May 6, 2008

    Bill Cosby's Badfoot Brown

    Woozy '70s kozmik grooves, brought to you by that guy who hates hip-hop

  • Music

    August 28, 2007

    Melody Lingers On

    Mastering Dylan, flubbing Darin, and paying tribute to the inimitable Max Roach

  • Music

    April 10, 2007

    Hip-Hop Is Dead to Him

    Hypocrisy and lack of flow defeat Marsalis's attack on "safari seekers" and "thug-life coons"

  • Music

    May 9, 2006

    Splitting the Difference

    For a brief moment in 1965, Charles Lloyd envisions the best of many worlds

  • Music

    November 22, 2005

    Not Bourgie

    Albert Ayler met Paul Gonsalves and Sonny Rollins's saxophone lineage was re-established

  • Specials

    November 22, 2005

    Letters

    Albert Ayler met Paul Gonsalves and Sonny Rollins's saxophone lineage was re-established

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    Can't Stop the Music

    The 'Voice' invents rock criticism

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    License to Ill

    Black journalism in the pages of the 'Voice'

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    The 50th Anniversary Special: Essays

    Black journalism in the pages of the 'Voice'

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    Coming of Age

    1976–1985: Punk to Pomo, Basquiat to Breakdancing

  • NYC Life

    February 22, 2005

    Noise on Music Central

    From minstrelsy to vaudeville and Monk to punk, never under-estimate urban ugliness

  • Music

    January 18, 2005

    Old School

    Two approaches to the dawning problem of expanding jazz repertoire, one of them novel

  • News

    December 21, 2004

    Jack Newfield, 1938-2004

    Two approaches to the dawning problem of expanding jazz repertoire, one of them novel

  • Books

    November 9, 2004

    The Miseducation of Tom Wolfe

    College kids say the darndest things: Awesome, sexiled, dormcest, and . . . mons pubis!

  • News

    September 21, 2004

    The Most Evil Crime

    As black Africans are murdered and raped, most Americans are indifferent

  • News

    July 20, 2004

    Crouching Stanley, Hidden Gangsta

    Why the hanging judge can't keep his hands to himself

  • Art

    June 15, 2004

    Remote Patrol

    Why the hanging judge can't keep his hands to himself

  • News

    December 23, 2003

    Lone Gunmen

    Why the hanging judge can't keep his hands to himself

  • Music

    December 16, 2003

    Flee as a Bird

    Envoi; Aloha, Au Revoir, Auf Wiedersehen; Adiós Amigos; I'm Checkin' Out, Goombye

  • Specials

    June 10, 2003

    Letters

    Envoi; Aloha, Au Revoir, Auf Wiedersehen; Adiós Amigos; I'm Checkin' Out, Goombye

  • Specials

    May 27, 2003

    Letters

    Envoi; Aloha, Au Revoir, Auf Wiedersehen; Adiós Amigos; I'm Checkin' Out, Goombye

  • News

    May 13, 2003

    Hanging the Judge

    Crouch, Jazz & the All-American Skin Game

  • News

    March 11, 2003

    Fire Music

    Lincoln Center Thaws Its Cold War on Jazz Activism

  • Music

    February 18, 2003

    Aquí Se Habla Español

    David Murray Makes a Cuban Connection

  • Music

    January 21, 2003

    Man of Substance

    Might Even Be Said to Possess a Mind

  • Specials

    October 1, 2002

    Letters

    Might Even Be Said to Possess a Mind

  • Books

    September 18, 2001

    Black Blueprint

    Might Even Be Said to Possess a Mind

  • Specials

    May 29, 2001

    Letters

    Might Even Be Said to Possess a Mind

  • Specials

    January 30, 2001

    Letters

    Might Even Be Said to Possess a Mind

  • Books

    January 23, 2001

    Get into the Groove

    Might Even Be Said to Possess a Mind

  • News

    January 9, 2001

    Burns-Eye View of Jazz

    Living History or Death Sentence?

  • News

    October 31, 2000

    The King of Coonology

    Spike Lee Mounts His Revenge on Black Hollywood

  • News

    September 5, 2000

    Ink Slingers

    Across Town, Words Jump off the Page

  • News

    July 18, 2000

    Sins of the Father

    Rudy's Double Standard

  • News

    June 27, 2000

    Book Samaritans

    Housing Works a Hit With Lit Crowd

  • Books

    June 6, 2000

    The Jazz Singer

    Housing Works a Hit With Lit Crowd

  • Books

    May 16, 2000

    Armed and Dangerous

    Housing Works a Hit With Lit Crowd

  • Books

    May 25, 1999

    Phil-In

    Housing Works a Hit With Lit Crowd

  • Music

    May 4, 1999

    Conjure Woman

    Housing Works a Hit With Lit Crowd

  • News

    January 26, 1999

    Why Clinton Gets Away With It

    'Something About Bill Clinton Captures Our Imagination'

  • Music

    December 8, 1998

    Holy Squat, Jazzman!

    'Something About Bill Clinton Captures Our Imagination'

  • Film

    October 20, 1998

    The Haunting

    'Something About Bill Clinton Captures Our Imagination'

  • News

    May 12, 1998

    Investigating New York's Finest

    Tolerance for Brutality Exists Throughout the Police Department

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