Johnny Griffin’s 1957 ‘A Blow Session’ is the latest in Blue Note’s Classic Vinyl series. It was recorded with John Coltrane ...

For Thelonious Monk's 108th Birthday, we look back at the sparsely documented collaboration of the eccentric pianist and ...

Misty Copeland, the first Black female principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre, may be the most famous American ballerina ...

Live jazz sweeps through Houston with a series of shows indoors and outdoors, free and paid, that help celebrate part of the ...

The second half of a two-part show dedicated to blue - the colour, the feeling, or the sound. Tracks this hour include Sumo Jazz's 'Blue Hue', Darren Pickering Small Worlds with 'Blue Mind', Bennie ...

Life is busy these days, so when you manage to get some well-earned free time, it's important to use it wisely, writes Glenn Fosbraey. You could, for example, invest a spare ten minutes listening to ...

University of Winchester provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Life is busy these days, so when you manage to get some well-earned free time, it’s important to use it wisely. You could, ...

T he greatest lost concert in American history almost never happened at all. It was Oct. 27, 1968, in Palo Alto, California. Outside of his high school, Danny Scher, a 16-year-old, bushy-haired, ...

Everyone who came to meet his plane wore a fur hat, and the sight was too much for him to bear. “Man, we got to have those!” he told his sidemen, and for fear that the hat stores would be closed ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Lou Donaldson, a celebrated jazz saxophonist with a warm, fluid style who performed with everyone from Thelonius Monk to George Benson and was sampled by Nas, De La Soul and other ...

Plays Monk was, duly, an astonishing debut statement of intent, musicality, and reverent but confident understanding of Monk specifically, and of Bebop’s journeys parallel to Monk’s studio and live ...

A Nicki Minaj album dropping on her birthday and the return of Tony Shalhoub’s quirky private investigator Adrian Monk with one final case are some of the new television, movies, music and games ...