All the on-paper makings of a jazz hero, but he embodied the genre’s indescribable qualities, too. He was just about the last living embodiment of dressed-up 1950s cool, expressing himself with ...

Avalon; Later; Ain't Misbehavin'; Mean To Me; Stairway To The Stars; Count Every Star; NIce Work If You Can Get It; There'll Never Be Another You; Blazin'; To Think You've Chosen Me; After You've Gone ...

In 1958, Palm Springs canceled a jazz festival over fears it would attract unruly crowds. Nearly seven decades later, the ...

Jazz begins in New Orleans ... Episode 9: The Adventure In the late 1950s, America's postwar prosperity continues, but beneath the surface run currents of change. Families are moving to the ...

In Seattle’s Central District, Jackson Street was the epicenter of a musical revolution. Trailblazing Black musicians ...