Stevie Wonder needs no introduction. His bio may not be well known by all but his most ardent fans, however. Here is how the version at Encyclopedia Britannica...
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The beginning of NPR’s bio of bassist Ray Brown does a good job of quickly defining who he was — and the company he kept: Grammy Award-winning...
The song also is identified in the clip as The Kid From Red Bank. Basie was born in the New Jersey town in 1904. It certainly is a better title, unless there...
In a post about Henry Mancini earlier this week, I linked to an iMDB bio that mentioned the relationship between jazz and movies. Along those lines, check out...
The comments to the above clip point out that Ben Webster clearly is crying after Teddy Wilson’s piano solo. The explanation provided — there is no...
A list of Duke Ellington songs is like a list of those from the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Bob Dylan and a few others. The song are so familiar and deeply...
