As legend has it, Miles Davis assembled a super group of jazz musicians in...
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Deep Dive: The presence of the past in John Coltrane’s expressive and searching music: Photos, Video
Saxophonist John Coltrane was born on Sept. 23, 1926. On what would have been...
The last time I saw Celia Cruz perform was in Central Park in 2002,...
Mary Lou Williams seemed to learn early that playing piano would keep her alive....
Historians and critics have pored over the recordings of these jazz greats like Miles Davis, John...
Nana had a big wooden box of a television in the corner of her...
The Century 21 Exposition, better remembered as the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair, left an indelible...
To consider a women’s Hall of Fame in American music is to come face-to-face...
Herbie Hancock explains how he composed Watermelon Man and how Mongo Santamaria influenced it....
Bob Wilber, a saxophonist, clarinetist and bandleader who spearheaded a traditional jazz revival in...
It was winter in late 1988 and a fax arrived in my newspaper office...
The National Trust is hoping to preserve the North Carolina house where Simone first...
