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Wynton Marsalis: A kind of homecoming

Wynton Marsalis: A kind of homecoming

You can take the boy out of New Orleans, but you can't take New Orleans out of the boy.

Perspectives: M Nahadr

Perspectives: M Nahadr

M Nahadr, singer, on jazz, R’n’B and being an albino

Highly strung

Music - Natalie Brierley on the plucking excellence of ukuleles

Class conscious - Andrew Martin praises the pioneers of revivalist jazz

Jazz revivalism - a quasi-Nordic look involving beards and Arran jumpers

Sax and the city

Jazz - Richard Cook on a young musician making his mark in Chicago

Junk bonds. Richard Cook on the dismal life and mysterious death of a jazz icon

Deep in a Dream: the long night of Chet Baker James Gavin Chatto & Windus, 430pp, £20 ISBN 070116381X

Ghost trane

Music - Richard Cook on the spiritual father of jazz improvisation

King Henry

Lounge music - Stephen Smith takes the score of the man who brought jazz to the movies

Miles too popular

Music - Richard Cook cuts the coolest jazzman down to size

Top of the Pops

Louis Armstrong is the irreducible essence of 20th-century music. Richard Cookcelebrates the life and talent of the grand old man of jazz

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Anglo-Saxon attitudes

Fathers and sons

Free thinking

The value of a quiet voice

The value of  a quiet voice

The Fixer

The Fixer (BBC2)

Ralph Fiennes

The NS Interview: Ralph Fiennes

The Muppets return

Gilbey on Film: We need to talk about Kermit

A life in pictures

Charles Dickens: snapshots of a life

Hemingway's Boat

Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved  in Life, and Lost (1934-61)

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

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