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Billie Holiday's Central Park Townhouse Goes on Market for $12.95 Million

If you're harping to own a piece of jazz history in the form of real estate look no further. The legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday's Upper West Side townhouse is on the market for a whopping $12.95 million.
By Ian Holubiak

  • Achim Kaufmann 2nd Release, 'Later,' on Pirouet Records [REVIEW]

    For Achim Kaufmann's second solo piano CD, the composer has stretched himself to the point of absurdity...but it works. To interpret the noninterpretable is Kaufmann's stock-in-trade on 'Later' (Pirouet Records). To that end, he covers Syd Barrett's "Dominoes" and Bob Dylan's "It's All Over Now Baby Blue."
    By Mike Greenblatt

  • Sullivan Fortner, New Orleans Pianist, Debuts 'Aria' on impulse! Records [REVIEW]

    New Orleans piano player Sullivan Fortner, 28, makes his major label debut, 'Aria', on one of the most legendary of jazz labels, impulse! Making his bones in Roy Hargrove's band, the spider-fingered multi-harmonic wizard of the 88s has sterling accompaniment in drummer Joe Dyson, Jr., bassist Aidan Carroll and saxophonist Tivon Pennicott. Fortner maintains he's only one-fourth of 'Aria' though, as he's always been more comfortable in a band context, not as a leader. Welcome to the big leagues, kid.
    By Mike Greenblatt