At a moment when jazz still loomed large in American culture, 1959 was an unusually monumental year. Those 12 months saw the ...

You know exactly where “3 Shades of Blue” is heading from the first page, even from the front cover. You foresee the point at which its three shades will blend and blur and, for an ...

Bandleader, multi-instrumentalist, singer and producer, Emma-Jean Thackray was born and raised in Yorkshire and started out playing the cornet in a brass band. She now has her own record label ...

When George Cables was going to school in New York City he used to walk the streets at night, taking in the cosmopolitan sights and sounds, mentally recording his encounters with “so many different ...