Items tagged jazz

• Coming Through Slaughter: The destruction of a man

  Michael Ondaatje's first novel is a textured, heart-breaking collage of jazz cornetist Buddy Bolden's life and times in New Orleans.

• Still standing, but out of the shadows

  A new documentary on the Funk Brothers gives proper credit to the fathers of Motown in a groundbreaking interactive DVD.

• Grant’s recommendations 11.2.07

  A little Julie Lee, some Beginning to Pray, and a good dose of Transformers.

• Grant’s recommendations 12.14.07

  A history of 20th century music and films about the kidnapping of Daniel Pearl and what went wrong with the occupation of Iraq.

• Grant’s recommendations 6.13.08

  Two documentaries, one about soldiers returning from Iraq and one about the history of jazz.