A young troublemaker at the Colored Waif’s Home encounters one horn and two music educators. The world changes.

When you think of Kansas City and New Orleans, what comes to mind? For many, it's the music—the jazz, the rhythm, and the deep-rooted history.

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In 1975 he moved with his family to a suburb of Chicago where he started playing cornet at the age of 10. A confrontation with the music of Sun Ra at the age of 16 at the Chicago Jazz Festival in 1981 ...

Jangly electric guitar lines interlace with glowing bass tones as static crackles. Brief bursts from a cornet, two or three notes at a time, are punctuated by eerie, wordless vocals.

always jazz. Mr. Riccardi captures the childhood reverence Armstrong felt toward Joe “King” Oliver, whose cornet he used to help carry between tunes in parades through the city. In vivid ...

Having released over a dozen albums and collaborated with a multitude of artists throughout her career, Alcorn is widely ...

Robbie Robertson, the Band’s guitarist and songwriter in the group’s years of stardom (who himself passed away in August of 2023 ), offered a far more effusive assessment of what Hudson brought to the ...

Helmed by singing drummer Ollie Judge, Squid were among the most explosive live prospects in the country, and the group quickly accumulated a devoted following for their eternal, yearning space jams ...