Few musical genres inspire the passionate devotion of jazz. Its mystique goes far beyond the melo...

Jazz trombonist Chris Barber formed his first band in the late 1940s, but it is the band that he ...

Few British jazz musicians have been at the cutting edge of as many movements as the late Ian Car...

The first volume of Barker's memoirs, A Life in Jazz, followed him from New Orleans into the big ...

A jazz critic for 'The Times' in London now covers all aspects of Dizzy Gillespie's extraordinary...

Paul McCartney and John Lennon described him as the Beatles' 'favorite group,' and yet no figure ...

With his catchphrase 'Hi-de-ho' and his dramatic singing and dancing, Cab Calloway became the hig...

In this first ever full-length biography of Harry Nilsson, author Alyn Shipton traces the musicia...

Fats Waller (1904-1943) was an outsize man in all respects: five feet, eleven inches tall, he wei...

With his catchphrase Hi-de-ho and his dramatic singing and dancing, Cab Calloway became the highe...

The Art of Jazz explores how the expressionism and spontaneity of jazz spilled onto its album art...

Pianist George Shearing is that rare thing, a European jazz musician who became a household name ...