There was a time when Anita O’Day’s name was synonymous with scandal. Thanks to drug busts and resulting jail time, the jazz singer was dubbed
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In July 1948, Lionel Hampton’s Orchestra was on tour across America. Traveling with them was a young 25-year-old guitarist who was beginning to make a
Trumpeter and flugelhorn player Eddie Henderson first caught the attention of jazz listeners as a dulcet Miles-esque presence within Herbie Hancock’s boldly progressive early ’70s
Beloved jazz composer and saxophonist Benny Golson passed away on September 21st. Though he was never a household name like his high school friend John
When 27-year-old Julian “Cannonball” Adderley went up to New York from his native Florida in the summer of 1955, he blew the Big Apple jazz
Dubbed the “Steel City” and renowned as an important industrial metropolis in 20th century America, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was also a thriving hotbed of jazz talent.
Charlie Parker had a complicated relationship with his hometown of Kansas City, MO owing both to its history of racial segregation and to his strong
Immanuel Wilkins will release his expansive third studio album Blues Blood on October 11 courtesy of Blue Note Records. The meditative offering co-produced by Meshell
Marking the landmark 50th anniversary of famed Puerto Rico band Sonora Ponceña’s seventh album Sabor Sureño, Craft Latino has announced a special reissue of the
After two fairly underwhelming collections of orthodox hard bop for the Chicago indie label Vee-Jay – 1959’s Introducing Wayne Shorter and 1962’s Wayning Moments –