I've never been a big fan of jazz sampler albums. Samplers provide you with an overview of a jazz period by featuring many different artists and the songs that made them famous. Most samplers are ...

Jazz was really the music that facilitated integration among the races in this country and never got credit for it. Every picture tells a story. After mining for gold in the form of photographic ...

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 ...