Nat King Cole’s “Mona Lisa” was the top song on this day in 1950 in the three categories that Billboard followed in those days: It was the...
Category - Jazz
Three notable birthdays today: Hugo Montenegro, Horace Silver and Clifford Jordan. There is relatively little video of tenor sax player Clifford Jordan (born...
Music is full of funny connections, especially when viewed decades later. It’s strange to think that that only 25 years elapsed between the end of World...
We all know–and most of us love — the jolly, overweight trumpeter with the huge smile, gravelly voice and out-sized personality. It is assumed in...
Profiles of jazz trumpeter Art Farmer are very interesting for what they leave out: There is relatively little about Farmer the man. No anecdotes, no...
Early jazz pianist Charles Luckyth (Luckey) Roberts was born on this day in 1887. Here is more on Roberts from Wikipedia. AllMusic does a nice job as well...
[column size=one_half position=first ]Nina Simone’s career tracks the experience of female African American artists during the middle and later part of the...
Minnesotans LaVerne, Maxene and Patty Andrews (originally Andreos) became a star act rather early. The first big hit — in 1937 — was a bit odd...
[column size=one_half position=first ]In the 1920s, jazz just was becoming jazz. One of the key figures in this process was Joseph Nathan (King) Oliver. Oliver...
Charlie Christian is the Adam and Eve of electric jazz guitar. He is followed by Wes Montgomery who, in turn, is a half-step ahead of Joe Pass, Tal Farlow...
