Desert resident Elizabeth Armstrong curated a seminal exhibition ... cool and gone.’” When Miles Davis titled his album “Birth of the Cool” he was specifically talking about a rebellion ...

The nominees for the 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class is out. As usual it is an eclectic bunch that includes some ...

During these coldest days of February, the outdoor music venue in Highland Park is busy building up a new experience.

In 1958, Palm Springs canceled a jazz festival over fears it would attract unruly crowds. Nearly seven decades later, the ...

Donald Trump has once again proposed a national sculpture garden that would honor well-known figures of American history, ...

The president says the garden, which was planned during his first term, will feature statues of the 250 "greatest Americans who ever lived." ...

Through the next few years, Dizack was inspired by the playing of Miles Davis, Nicholas Payton, Lee Morgan and Louis Armstrong. By the time he hit high school, his path in life was clear. Trumpet.

Suri returns to the venue on February 14, in a Valentine’s Day special concert titled Love Songs From New Orleans: The ...

Just reflect for a minute what American music would sound like without this organic pollination of artists: Michael Jackson, James Brown, Bud Powell, Louis ... Grant Still, Miles Davis and Ornette ...

It’s in the ‘animated swing’ of Miles Davis’s album Kind of Blue (1959) and the sandpaper timber of Louis Armstrong intoning the titular question of his song ‘(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue?’ ...

The Blues Trail was created nearly two decades ago with markers located at significant places that helped shape the genre.

Crosby thus approached such illustrious company as Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans and Oscar ...