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January 29, 2007
David Hajdu
Ye Olde Rocker
May 29, 2006
David Hajdu
The Producers
May 16, 2005
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Heart Music
October 25, 2004
David Hajdu
God Only Knows
October 8, 2004
Albert Murray
Jazz: Notes Toward a Definition
June 7, 2004
Mark Polizzotti
Love in Vain
October 6, 2003
David Hajdu
This Year’s Model
November 22, 1999
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Jazz Lips: On Louis Armstrong
August 10, 1992
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Momma Dearest
March 2, 1992
Alex Heard
Stand By Your Men
The ballad of Tammy Wynette.
November 11, 1991
David Samuels
The Rap on Rap
The 'black music' that isn't either.
July 15, 1991
Gerald Early
One Nation Under a Groove
The brief, shining moment of Motown—and America.
August 28, 1989
Hendrik Hertzberg
You Had To Be There
The magic of Woodstock.
October 31, 1988
Louis Menand
Lives Of The Saints
May 11, 1987
Jon Wiener
Beatles Buy-Out
August 12, 1985
Terence Moran
Sounds of Sex
Why Daddy took the T-Bird away
December 2, 1981
John Lahr
The Beatles Considered
It was twenty years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play.
April 5, 1975
W. T. Lhamon. Jr.
A Cut Above
July 6, 1974
Bruce Cook
Duke Ellington: Master of the American Musical Idiom
October 8, 1962
Neil Leonard
The Bop Brotherhood

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