Long Form are in-depth articles on fundamental themes and artists in jazz.
Written by our best contributors and accompanied by exclusive photos, they represent the heart of jazz music history.
After years of requests from university students and enthusiasts, they are now available and updated on this page.
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100 years of Jaki Byard
On the centenary of the birth of the Massachusetts pianist, a great and neglected genius in the history of jazz, we revisit his long and unusual career, which he carried out in a scientifically “lateral” way, always far from convention and banality.
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Remembering Ethel Ennis
The almost forgotten Baltimore singer (1932-2019) was a significant performer, possessing a plastic and airy phrasing, capable of lightness and rhythmic punctuality, graceful enunciation and intonation, and understated evocativeness: it is fitting to remember her.
Jazz & Hip-Hop: A summit meeting
Hip-hop is to young black people what bebop was to those of my generation (Quincy Jones)