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Adam Shatz

Adam Shatz

Adam Shatz is the US Editor of the London Review of Books and the author, most recently, of The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon. (November 2025)

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A Blues Surrealist

A Blues Surrealist

Julius Hemphill’s music uses stark, lyrical abstraction and svelte dissonances to confront the vicissitudes of black American life.

The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony

archival recordings by Julius Hemphill, with Malinké Elliott, K. Curtis Lyle, Abdul Wadud, Baikida Carroll, John Carter, Olu Dara, Nels Cline, Allan Jaffe, Jehri Riley, Jack Wilkins, Jerome Harris, Dave Holland, Steuart Liebig, Roberto Miranda, Michael Carvin, Alex Cline, Jack DeJohnette, Philip Wilson, Ursula Oppens, Daedalus String Quartet, Ray Anderson, Marty Ehrlich, Janet Grice, John Purcell, and Bruce Purse

May 27, 2021 issue

An Invitation from Jeanne Lee

The Newest Sound Around

an album by Jeanne Lee and Ran Blake

The Newest Sound You Never Heard: European Studio Recordings 1966/1967

an album by Jeanne Lee and Ran Blake

Free Standards: Stockholm 1966

an album by Jeanne Lee and Ran Blake

June 11, 2020 issue

The Apostle of Now-ness

Studio 105, Paris 1967

an album by the Don Cherry Trio

Home Boy, Sister Out

an album by Don Cherry

Brown Rice

an album by Don Cherry

The Codona Trilogy

an album by Don Cherry, Naná Vasconcelos, and Collin Walcott

June 6, 2019 issue

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