In my opinion, Mickey Baker’s The Wildest Guitar is in the top five of greatest album covers. I’ve stared at Mickey’s face, I’ve analyzed what his left hand is fingering. I’ve looked to see if his ...

I recently bought a book compiled and photographed by the one and only jazz patroness, Baroness Pannonica (often called Nica) de Koenigswarter, a member of the old-world aristocratic and fabulously ...

The uptown Charlotte museum also features black-and-white images of such stars as Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk and Billie ...

Saxophone and flute great James Moody became an international jazz star in 1949. He continued to record and tour around the world until shortly before his death in 2010, in San Diego, from pancreatic ...

This is FRESH AIR. Here on the show, we memorialize jazz composer Benny Golson and drummer Roy Haynes. Jazz historian Kevin Whitehead remembers a few more musicians who passed in 2024. For some of ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Here in Music City, we do love a bit of music history. This piece of history is coming to us from an unexpected place, but it's very much a part of the American story.

The New Jersey rap legend and Black Thought revisit a near-collaboration that’s never been released. 9 hours ago One of the immovable pillars of jazz, John Coltrane truly loved the artform. A premiere ...

*The fifth Leimert Park Jazz Festival in Los Angeles on Saturday, August 31 contributed a scintillating balance of veteran and fiery up-and-coming talent to a Clear, warm, and breezy afternoon. Hosted ...

Louie Bellson, 84, widely considered one of the world's greatest drummers, who played with Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey and Count Basie, died Feb. 14 in California of complications from ...