Exploring the life, times, and musical excellence of Duško Gojković, a jazz obsessive from Yugoslavia who relocated to West Germany to pursue his passion.
RLA Jazz Trio Francis Vanek and the RLA Jazz Trio will perform jazz tunes from the 1950s and ’60s during “Wine & Jazz” Sunday from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Morris Graves Museum of Art, 636 F St., Eureka.
The historical significance of Black popular music in American culture is powerful. Even former President Jimmy Carter ...
Guitarist John Scofield picks 10 of his favorite tracks from his own catalog and shares the stories behind them as he ...
Richard Hinds settles the tonearm gently into the grooves of the 78 record, and the music of Jelly Roll Morton and the Red Hot Peppers rises from the rotating disc and buzzes the room. " 'Doctor Jazz, ...
There may not be a musical movie in existence with such a wealth of talent as there is in 1956's High Society, a rom-com ...
Richard Bernstein's biography charts Jolson's success and addresses the reviled practice of blackface that helped to make ...
The Good Trouble Suite” was composed by Matt Wilson and arranged for big band by Jeff Lederer. The suite is in three ...
One day last February, inside a fairly plain, concrete-block building in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Samara Joy stood in a glass ...
Legendary tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin released his first solo album on the Blue Note label in January 1957. Containing both the fast-paced work for which Griffin became known and some more ...
Golson was one of the few surviving jazz masters of the 1950s, a golden age during which the innovations of the 1940s, known ...
Cissy Houston, a two-time Grammy winner who sang with Elvis Presley and Aretha Franklin and was the mother of Whitney Houston ...