Let me start this story with some context: I really like jazz. I’m listening to it right...
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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...
