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

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

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

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

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 ...

Pianist George Shearing is that rare thing, a European jazz musician who became a household name ...

A jazz critic for 'The Times' in London now covers all aspects of Dizzy Gillespie's extraordinary...

With his catchphrase 'Hi-de-ho' and his dramatic singing and dancing, Cab Calloway became the hig...

Fats Waller (1904-1943) was an outsize man in all respects: five feet, eleven inches tall, he wei...

With his catchphrase Hi-de-ho and his dramatic singing and dancing, Cab Calloway became the highe...

The Art of Jazz explores how the expressionism and spontaneity of jazz spilled onto its album art...

Using original scores and detailed transcriptions of Mulligan's early work, The Gerry Mulligan 19...