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NYO Jazz, Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Jazz Orchestra, in action. Photo: Todd Rosenberg
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NYO Jazz, Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Jazz Orchestra, joins South African guest artists for debut tour in July 2024 

Artistic director and bandleader/trumpeter Sean Jones leads ensemble with vocalist Alicia Olatuja as special guest on SA tour

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Elusive: The documentary Chasing Trane fails to catch the full John Coltrane.
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Hearing Coltrane: Like watching a grown man learn how to speak

Watching several of Coltrane’s harmonic and melodic experiments at the cusp of the 1960s, Amiri Baraka emerges frightened, yet energised

  • Amiri Baraka
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