Well 2000 pieces, 100 tours, numerous jazz standards – Duke Ellington wore the music of African Americans...
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As ‘Bolden’ opens in theaters, Dr. Lewis Porter peels back the mythology around Louis Armstrong, a central...
For a while during his captivity, jazz kept Eric Vogel, a Jewish Czech trumpeter, useful to the...
One of the last greats of his generation, jazz master Benny Golson talks about Coltrane, Spielberg and...
Jazz musicians in continental Europe who emerged in the 1940s held a special distinction. They survived World...
Some were deeply influenced by modern classical orchestral music. Others such as Johnny Mandel, Manny Albam, Johnny...
