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 ...

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 ...

Bassist Charles Mingus stood on the passenger seat of a convertible speeding through Newport, Rhode Island, shouting, “Come to my festival!” It might have looked like marketing, but make no mistake: ...

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 ...