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Dec 2, 2024 | 
mckinsey.com | James Kaplan |Mark Gu |Megha Sinha
How tech leaders organize and manage teams, talent, IT architecture, and costs may dramatically shift in the next decade as a result of generative AI.
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
spokesman.com | James Kaplan
Kenny G wants you to know that he doesn’t like the term “smooth jazz.” “For me,” the saxophonist says in his new memoir, “Life in the Key of G,” “it evokes a feeling of something that’s too light, too fluffy, and not strong enough.”Funny – that’s precisely how his many detractors would characterize his music.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
sandiegouniontribune.com | James Kaplan
By James KaplanSPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON POSTKenny G wants you to know that he doesn’t like the term “smooth jazz.”“For me,” the saxophonist says in his new memoir, “Life in the Key of G,” “it evokes a feeling of something that’s too light, too fluffy, and not strong enough.”Funny — that’s precisely how his many detractors would characterize his music.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | James Kaplan
Kenny G performs. (Mark Downey/Lucid Images/Corbis/Getty Images)Review by James KaplanSeptember 26, 2024 at 10:22 a.m. EDTKenny G wants you to know that he doesn’t like the term “smooth jazz.” “For me,” the saxophonist says in his new memoir, “Life in the Key of G,” “it evokes a feeling of something that’s too light, too fluffy, and not strong enough.”Funny — that’s precisely how his many detractors would characterize his music.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
journalgazette.net | Steven Hyden |James Kaplan |Brian Barnes Fairbanks |Larry Tye
These works of music history are newly available through the Allen County Public Library. “Hip-hop Is History”by Questlove The renowned drummer from The Roots and New York Times best-selling author chronicles 50 years of hip-hop and how it has affected every aspect of our culture, from fashion and film to TV.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
weintraubr.substack.com | John McEnroe |James Kaplan |Robert Weintraub
817. BROOKLYN ROBINS VS PHILADELPHIA PHILLIESSEPTEMBER 13, 1925EBBETS FIELDQUALITY OF PLAY—7.76DRAMA—8.12STAR POWER—5.60CONTEMPORARY IMPORT—7.32HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE—6.25LOCAL IMPACT—8.55TOTAL: 43.60“DAZZY DAZZLES”1925 was a dismal season for the Brooklyn National League entry, normally known as the Dodgers but in the moment called the Robins for their lovable, portly manager, Wilbert Robinson.
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Jun 9, 2024 | 
audiofilemagazine.com | James Kaplan
This absorbing audiobook looks at the lives of three jazz greats--Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans--from their growth as young musicians to when they collaborated on Davis's 1959 album, KIND OF BLUE, and beyond. Their lives were challenging and full of pathos, which narrator Dion Graham captures with the empathy and vocal talent he's known for.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
literaryreview.co.uk | James Kaplan
On a February afternoon in 1958, at the end of a session lasting four and a half hours in a deconsecrated Armenian Orthodox church on East 30th Street in New York City, a sextet led by the trumpeter Miles Davis recorded two takes of a newly composed tune called ‘Milestones’.
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Mar 30, 2024 | 
bookreporter.com | James Kaplan
Like jazz itself, 3 SHADES OF BLUE has several layers. Part biography, part music history, (large) part substance abuse, with a little music theory thrown in, it spends the most time on trumpeter Miles Davis, with smaller components of sax man John Coltrane and Bill Evans, a white piano genius who found a place in the mostly African-American genre during the era in which the book is set. Davis, Coltrane and Evans were not just fiendish performers; they were next-level creators.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
torontosun.com | Gabriel García Márquez |James Kaplan |Marilynne Robinson |Carleigh Baker
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