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What makes that song swing? At last, physicists unravel a jazz mystery

For nearly a century, jazz musicians have debated what gives songs that propulsive, groovy feel that makes you want to move with the music. The secret may lie in subtle nuances in a soloist's timing.

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Mineta? SJC? Airport rebrand aims to show the way to San Jose while still honoring namesake

New York has John F. Kennedy, Washington, D.C. has Ronald Reagan, and New Orleans has Louis Armstrong.

Tribune News Service

The holiday music playlist you need, want and deserve

Holiday music is a big business that generates $170 million a year, according to Billboard.

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Here are 12 cool new Christmas albums for the season

Do you ever get tired of hearing Nat King Cole croon about “chestnuts roasting on an open fire” during the Christmas season?

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Monsters of doc: Mark Kermode’s top 20 music documentaries

For our festival-averse film critic, movies about concerts and musicians are essential viewing – and he believes we are living through a golden age for the form

The Guardian - UK

Fill your stocking with Alicia Keys, Louis Armstrong, more

Time to update that dusty old holiday playlist with some new offerings that will appeal to everyone at the table

The Independent UK

Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues review – swinging doc is a stirring tribute

Freewheeling across the trumpeter’s pathbreaking career, Sacha Jenkins’ immensely enjoyable study speeds through giddyingly rich source material

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Dolton voters’ key concerns, America’s pandemic baby bump and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Chicago Sun-Times

How Chicago put Louis Armstrong on a path to jazz greatness 100 years ago

The trumpeter from New Orleans was 21 when he stepped off a train at the Illinois Central Station in 1922. Now, jazz events in Chicago are exploring his influence on the city.

Chicago Sun-Times

Gris-gris enigma: can a new posthumous release shed light on the elusive genius of Dr John?

How did a middle-class white kid break into New Orleans’ feverish 1950s R&B scene and enjoy a wildly eclectic six-decade career? As a new release puts it: things happen that way

The Guardian - UK

Not a wonderful world: Louis Armstrong tapes reveal how racism scarred his life and career

Audio diaries including previously unheard material tell of the jazz giant’s anger over the prejudice he faced

The Guardian - UK

Chicago Jazz Festival offers music to soothe a shaken city

The music fest arrives at a good time for a city battered by critics.

Chicago Sun-Times

Louiz Banks, the godfather of Indian Jazz, is teaching children again

From a Kolkata night club to the world stage, Louiz Banks is a pioneer of Jazz in India. Now, at 81, he is eager to reprise an old role

The Hindu

Let’s Do It by Bob Stanley review – a voyage through pop’s origins

Prewar stars and genres come to life in a joyous account that draws uncanny parallels with the present

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‘It’s a show about love’: Desert Island Discs celebrates 80 years on air

As the radio classic marks a major anniversary, it’s the shared human experience revealed by the castaways that keeps us hooked

Fortune

Introducing Duke Ellington (Fortune; August 1933)

...who grosses $250,000 a year with Mood Indigo and the Cotton Club Stomp.

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