It’s easy to love the grand, effulgent splendor of Oscar Peterson’s piano style. It’s...
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How a jazz legend’s resting place was lost and found, 50 years after his tragic death: Photos, Video
Lee Morgan’s final resting place is a hillside plot in a modest cemetery in...
Duke Ellington should need no introduction. He did it all. He wrote in the...
In the Sixties, the saxophonist carried out a paradigm shift in jazz. A new...
Recorded 1977 for Muse. Barry Altschul, drums and percussion; Sam Rivers, saxophones and flute;...
The pianist’s “Retrospect In Retirement Of Delay” is a historic outpouring of musical imagination....
The beloved cleric and humanitarian Desmond Tutu died at age 90 on Dec. 26....
A popular biography of the legendary jazz pianist, composer and arranger gives a glimpse...
A visit with the two radio hosts who have kept the Sinatra community alive....
In documentary Fire Music, the hostile reaction that met the unusual genre soon turns...
A Fargo artist recently painted a mural of the legendary artist and his historic...
Let me start this story with some context: I really like jazz. I’m listening to it right...
This year marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of “The Voice of Frank Sinatra,” the first...
John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme, recorded near the close of 1964 and released early the following...
The visionary jazz artist sketched an “Astro-Black mythology” that aligned ancient Egyptian history with...
Simon Gronowski had committed many acts of bravery and generosity in his 89 years...
The best jazz requires improvisation. So do the best lives. You can’t buy sheet...
He was nicknamed Bird and he soared in his music – if not in...
He died young, only barely outliving the big-band era, but his influence lives on....
A Black-empowering label’s catalog from the 1970s is re-released. Should Black people helm its...
By the mid-1950s, tenor saxophonist Stan Getz had become a sensation as a soloist...
In 1964, Canadian filmmaker Gilles Groulx directed Le Chat Dans le Sac (The Cat in...
On February 28, 1978, pianist Mary Lou Williams was at Les Mouches, a restaurant...
Passion Flower: For Doris Duke Sunnyside Records presents the second boxed set of recordings...
If we’re evaluating jazz musicians on tone alone, Art Farmer was perhaps the prettiest...
Boss tenors take charge. I don’t know how else to put it. When a...
In the 1950s, musicians who could play jazz, blues and R&B increased their income...
Fifty years ago, Herbie Hancock formed a sextet on the vanguard of electroacoustic music....