He wrote the music for Scott-Heron’s astonishing streams of social consciousness – and then...
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Mingus biographer Dr Nichole Rustin-Paschal offers an academic perspective on the musical legacy of...
Charles Mingus was 50 when I interviewed him in London in the summer of...
By the time Hazel Scott debuted at Carnegie Hall at age 20, she had...
Fifty years ago today, at 10 o’clock on the morning of Monday 17 April...
From Joni Mitchell and Radiohead to Andy Summers of The Police, Jeff Beck and...
I first met Herbie Mann in January 1979, when I noticed him bursting out...
I was not in regular touch with Ron Miles and found the news of his...
Sometimes, at Charles Mingus’s apartment, you would have to wait outside the bathroom as...
It’s easy to love the grand, effulgent splendor of Oscar Peterson’s piano style. It’s...
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...
