When promoting his solo debut The Nightfly in 1982, Steely Dan's Donald Fagen listed his favourite records, including two from soul legend Ray Charles.
Cecil Payne (born December 14, 1922) is a jazz baritone saxophonist born in Brooklyn ... Gillespie hired him and he stayed onboard until 1949, heard performing solos on "Ow!" and "Stay On It". In the ...
Welcome to our new section of articles about Post War Britain; everyday life and events in the 1950s and 1960s. For those of you who remember these days, we hope you will enjoy reminiscing! Please ...
Riddle me this: What kind of music does Santa Claus prefer above all others? The answer, of course, is cool jazz. That’s what everybody digs up at the North Pole. The same is true at Jazz at Lincoln ...
The joyful memories were mingled with pain and later activism after the city tore through her neighborhood during a period of urban removal between the 1950s and ... a local jazz musician, wrote ...