Throughout its history jazz has been in fashion and out of it – but it’s never gone away. Jazz is at its heart Black American ...
A hundred years after The Great Gatsby shone a light on extravagant Long Island mansions and secret speakeasies, the spirit ...
He helped turn the Library of Congress into a leading center for research on the history of jazz, and made some surprising discoveries of his own.
The legendary jazzman’s compositions are instantly recognizable through decades of samples in hip-hop, R&B, and more.
Outstanding innovators in the world of jazz had above-average levels of drug and alcohol abuse, psychotic disorders and other mental health problems, research has claimed. A study of 40 world ...
He would play with an array of established jazz greats including Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Dave Brubeck, Joe Henderson, Pharoah Sanders and Stan Getz. It was working with Getz that put Clarke in ...
Having already won eight Grammy Awards — and performed with such illustrious figures as Paul McCartney, McCoy Tyner, James ...