George Wein, who set the standard for what outdoor music gatherings would become with his leadership of the Newport Folk and Jazz Festivals from the 1950s into the 21st century, died Monday at his ...

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 ...

When American high schools formed their first jazz bands in the 1940s and 1950s, they shunned the word jazz. At that time, jazz connoted all manner of debauchery: It was dance music, black music and ...

After Jeff Gold finished “Total Chaos: The Story of the Stooges/As Told By Iggy Pop” in 2018, he’d decided that “I’m, never doing another book again. It’s just too much work.” Obviously, the ...

The Mingus Legacy. Where: Iridium Jazz Club, 1650 Broadway at 51st Street, New York. When: Tuesdays, 8:30 and 10:30 p.m. How much: $25 music charge, $10 minimum. Call (212) 582-2121 or visit ...

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 ...