The Brooklyn Rail

Music

• New York's Best-Kept Jazz Secret

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  By William S. Niederkorn

• ALAN PIERSON: Making "Brooklyn's Orchestra"

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  By George Grella

• The Thunder Sheet, the Zither, and the Mousepad

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  By David St.-Lascaux

• The Geist of Independence

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  By Laura Flierl