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This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. I was 18 when my dad discovered a lump on his neck. He’d been doing ...

A Song For My Father is a six-minute poetic documentary that examines grief and the complicated relationship we develop with the things that once connected us to the people we’ve lost. After the ...

What makes the stylings of pianist Horace Silver so identifiable? To begin with, he crafted strong bass patterns that had a weighty pulse to them. For example, his most well-known piece, "Song for my ...