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Philip Clark’s Dave Brubeck: A Life in Time was published in 2020. He won the Eccles Centre and Hay Festival Writer’s Award in 2022. He is currently working on Sound and the City, a sonic history of New York. (August 2024)
The Bernstein Enigma
In narrowly focusing on Leonard Bernstein’s tortured personal life, Maestro fails to explore his tortured artistic life.
Maestro
a film directed by Bradley Cooper
February 8, 2024 issue
The Transgressor
RJ Smith’s biography of Chuck Berry examines his subject’s instinct for crossing the line musically, racially, and morally.
Chuck Berry: An American Life
by RJ Smith
October 19, 2023 issue
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