When television producer Lee Mendelson heard jazz pianist/composer Vince Guaraldi's hit single "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" on his car radio, he thought he had found the right composer for the ...

John Milham knows how to stuff a stocking. The drummer, long a part of the Mobile music scene as a member of Kung Fu Mama, Vibration Configuration and other groups, got the idea last Christmas season ...

That’s even less likely now, as jazz recedes into the history books or the background of dinner parties, said Nathaniel Sloan, musicologist at the University of Southern California and co-host of the ...