In 2020, I published A Map of Jazz: Crossroads of Music and Human Rights (WS Publishing), a book that looks at the culture of jazz on a timeline with cultures of the world. At more than 500 pages, the ...

NPR'S Ayesha Rascoe speaks with jazz musician Mark Turner about his latest album, "Reflections on: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man." It's based on the book by James Weldon Johnson.

The recording opens metronomically, with eight repeated notes on a string bass, each pulling you in closer. The piano enters, then the drums. After playing the melody, a familiar and endearing Beatles ...

“Music is everything that makes the musician,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz composer, saxophonist and flautist Henry Threadgill notes in “Easily Slip Into Another World,” his fascinating memoir not ...

The Rev. Bill Carter remembers the story his mother told him about attending a Louis Armstrong concert in Venango County as a ...

Music Journalist And Fiction Author Matty Bannond Releases Debut Jazz Novel, 'Cutting Contest'. Posted in “Book / Magazine” ...

The New Orleans Jazz Museum will host Grammy Award winner and author Ricky Riccardi, who will be signing his newest book, "Stomp Off, Let's Go: The Early Years of Louis Armstrong." Mr. Riccardi is the ...

At the Hot Club of New York, patrons revisit the music’s past by spinning shellac 78 RPM discs of recordings made in the ...