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‘Christmas Time Is Here’ Is the Best Christmas Song Because It’s the Most Depressing Christmas Song
The classic track from the ‘Peanuts’ Christmas special seems like a tribute to what’s so special about the season. But we hear it from the perspective of knowing how disappointing the holidays often are
Kenny G Weaponized Pleasantness
The new documentary ‘Listening to Kenny G’ explores why the popular smooth-jazz instrumentalist is so divisive. Maybe it’s because there’s something eerily inhuman about his brand of inoffensive beauty
Miles Davis vs. Malibu: How the LAPD Terrorized a Jazz Legend
Dick Cavett’s famous gift to Davis — a license plate saying he owned his Ferrari — missed the point of the police’s racist crackdown on a successful Black man
Happy 90th Birthday to Jazz Legend Sonny Rollins
It’s time to rename the Williamsburg Bridge in his honor
