From Slate, Jody Rosen on the DORF Matrix: A theory of NPR's taste in black music. There is no such thing as "black music": Why should we speak in historical terms when discussing modern music? Listener as Operator: The "compositional improvising" of jazz, from big band to free to AACM, is, in its shared precarity, "tellingly inarticulate". Genre is still king: Bob Wills should be a jazz legend, but superficial criteria like instrumentation and audience have relegated him to the "country" ghetto. A review of The Jazz Book: From Ragtime to the 21st Century by Joachim-Ernst Berendt and Gunther Huesmann. A review of Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music by David Suisman. The Beatles were a triumph of capitalism — and it was all down to Brian Epstein. Bob Dylan’s band camp: An excerpt from We’ll

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