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...
Unlike the San Francisco Symphony and Opera nearby in Hayes Valley’s performing arts district...
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...
