Look at the covers of all your favorite metal albums. While they’ll probably fall into a few different schools of design, you can bet not a single one looks like anything that came out of the 1950s ...

Several are the biographies of Gerry Mulligan, arguably jazz's most celebrated baritone saxophonist. None, however, have focused as specifically and as closely as this tome does on the quartets with ...

Few Americans know much about it, but a radical midcentury revolution in jazz was born in Los Angeles in the late 1950s. Some of the most exciting and challenging (and forgotten) American music was ...

A few years ago, a reader from California named Charlie F. started a provocative discussion in the All About Jazz forums with the title: "I've decided not to buy any more Blue Note albums." Oh boy. He ...

That Devilin’ Tune is a useful antidote to the Ken Burns TV series, CDs and books dealing with jazz history. Where Burns emphasizes his “great man” theory, Lowe, while not neglecting Armstrong, Parker ...

Frank Kuchirchuk, a retired photographer who took live performance photographs of some of the greatest jazz artists during the height of their careers, has donated his entire collection of jazz images ...

Craft Recordings expands its acclaimed Original Jazz Classics series with AAA vinyl reissues from Lee Morgan, Bobby Timmons, and The Young Lions. Arriving April 24, the trio of releases digs back into ...