I didn’t know anything about Dinah Washington — whose real name was Ruth Lee Jones — other that she was a terrific singer. It was sad that...
Category - Jazz
Trumpet player Freddie Hubbard, as the first two paragraphs of his AllMusic profile show, was one of the mainstays of jazz during the latter half of the...
Visitors to New York should keep in mind that lots of great sites are outside of Manhattan. One of those is the Louis Armstrong House, which is in Corona...
Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton was a New Orleans-born “Creole of color” who is considered to be one of the most important figures in...
New Orleans has a genius for producing great food and great trumpet and cornet players. Indeed, Louis Armstrong — who Wynton Marsalis pays homage to...
Harry James was one of the most important performers of the World War II era–and not just because he played a major role in the career of Frank Sinatra...
The first few seconds of Song For My Father (above) sound a lot like the start of Steely Dan’s Rikki Don’t Lose That Number, which of course came...
Tal Farlow, who was nicknamed “The Octopus” because of the size of his hands and their ability to navigate the fretboard, has a surprisingly short...
West End Blues by Louis Armstrong is one of the most important songs in jazz. A YouTube poster named pandasthumb describes the piece. It’s definitely...
Here is the beginning of jazz pianist Bud Powell’s bio at Wikipedia: Earl Rudolph “Bud” Powell (September 27, 1924 – July 31, 1966) was a...
