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 ...

Don't think of Duke Ellington as a bandleader. Instead, consider him in the same light as other great entrepreneurs like Bill Gates (Microsoft), Steve Jobs (Apple), Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Google) ...

The 1940s were a tumultuous time and, by extension, an exciting time in America. World War II loomed and eventually took hold of the globe. Soldiers fought the Nazis abroad, eventually victorious. But ...

“When he walks into a room,” trumpeter and bandleader Wynton Marsalis once said of Jimmy Heath, “jazz history is made.” Not only was Mr. Heath one of the most accomplished saxophonists and composers ...