In his introduction to Learning to Listen, master vibraphonist Gary Burton offers readers the choice...
BOOKS
Playboy impresario Hugh Hefner, an important advocate for jazz through his magazine, festival, nightclubs, TV...
The saxophonist and bandleader Cannonball Adderley was not only an important and influential figure...
Miles Ornette Cecil – Jazz Beyond Jazz by Howard Mandel (Routledge; New York and London)...
Back in 1957, Decca Records assigned photojournalist Jerry Dantzic to photograph Billie Holiday for...
With its multifaceted radicalism, the Art Ensemble of Chicago occupies a singular niche in...
He is a staff musician at NBC in New York; he is one of...
A few weeks ago an unfounded rumor scurried through New York’s music circle: DownBeat’s...
Sometime around 1890, the blues emerged as a distinct African-American art form, rooted in...
Josef Woodard’s Charles Lloyd: A Wild, Blatant Truth is an unauthorized biography. But it’s hard to...
