Unlike the San Francisco Symphony and Opera nearby in Hayes Valley’s performing arts district...
masters of jazz
Mary Lou Williams performed her groundbreaking devotional hymn St. Martin de Porres at the Monterey Jazz...
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...
Labor Day weekend is a time to honor our workers, and the spirit of...
Miles Davis: Horn player, bandleader, innovator. Elegant, intellectual, vain. Callous, conflicted, controversial. Magnificent, mercurial....
To consider a women’s Hall of Fame in American music is to come face-to-face...
“There is never any end,” John Coltrane said sometime in the mid-1960s, at the...
Lucky Peterson is the subject of much attention this year. He adorns the cover...
The 79-year-old pianist and composer talks about admiring Kendrick Lamar, making a new album,...
Herbie Hancock explains how he composed Watermelon Man and how Mongo Santamaria influenced it....
