Steve Futterman has written about jazz for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Rolling Stone and for the past three decades has contributed the weekly "Jazz and Standards" listings for the New Yorker.
A new book celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of ‘Will the Circle Be Unbroken,’ a groundbreaking crossover album that revealed marvelous sonic vistas.
What impressed itself most on listeners in 1968, and continues to today, is the album’s utter authenticity, giving other artists permission to be truer to themselves