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The Real Story of Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut
The Elite Have Always Preyed on Young Women. Kubrick Knew It. He Just Couldn’t Say It Directly.
 • Bret Primack
The Most Important American Film Nobody Took Seriously in 1957
In 1957, Elia Kazan and Budd Schulberg made a film about a charismatic drifter who uses television to seduce a nation, and critics called it…
 • Bret Primack
The Forgotten Master: How Hank Mobley Suffered While Blue Note Sat on His Music
The hard bop genius who wrote an album in prison, died homeless, and was celebrated only after it was too late
 • Bret Primack
The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever
And Everything That Almost Prevented It
 • Bret Primack
Trump vs. The Jazz Musician
A Study in Authoritarian Control
 • Bret Primack
Your Brain on Music: What Neuroscience Is Finally Proving
Based on a conversation with cognitive neuroscientist Daniel Levitin on StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
 • Bret Primack
The Cost of Becoming Yourself
Herman Hesse
 • Bret Primack
Jazz’s Greatest Buried Treasure
Elmo Hope
 • Bret Primack
Long Tall Dex
Dexter Gordon's enduring legacy
 • Bret Primack
Running Out the Clock: Thoughts on Time, Aging and Being Alive
On August 1, I turn seventy-seven.
 • Bret Primack
Blazing Saddles Isn’t Satire. It’s an Autopsy of the American Brain.
The 2000 Year Old Man Turns 100 - MEL BROOKS
 • Bret Primack
Walter Davis Jr.: The Bebop Giant the History Books Forgot
There are musicians whose fingerprints are all over the jazz we love, whose names surface in the liner notes of essential albums and in the memories of…
 • Bret Primack
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