Though the golden age of big band music is associated with the 30s, it originated a decade earlier in the Jazz Age, when jazz bandleaders began to lead groups that emerged out of small jazz combos ...
Quincy Jones, who has died aged 91, was one of the most important and versatile figures in the history of 20th-century music; in a career that spanned 70 years, he enjoyed success as a trumpeter, ...
the worst 5-game stretch in Jazz history. Walker Kessler had his first career technical tonight. He was called for an offensive screening foul that he thought was not one, and as he walked to the ...
Johan Grimonprez’s documentary intertwines narratives of such American jazz legends as Louis Armstrong with the tragic, tangled story of the Congo’s early years of independence.