Few British jazz musicians have been at the cutting edge of as many movements as the late Ian Car...

The first volume of Barker's memoirs, A Life in Jazz, followed him from New Orleans into the big ...

Declared a 'national treasure' by the White House in 1990, John Birks 'Dizzy' Gillespie was a not...

Paul McCartney and John Lennon described him as the Beatles' 'favorite group,' he won Grammy awar...

Paul McCartney and John Lennon described him as the Beatles' 'favorite group,' and yet no figure ...

Jazz trombonist Chris Barber formed his first band in the late 1940s, but it is the band that he ...

Few musical genres inspire the passionate devotion of jazz. Its mystique goes far beyond the melo...

Jazz pianists occupy a unique place in the story of jazz, and the development of the solo piano t...