In 1956, Langston Hughes appeared at a symposium during the Newport Jazz Festival. He would return regularly, and in 1960, Hughes hosted and curated a blues conversation and concert that found him ...

Reuben Jackson, who fused words and music in a multifaceted career as a Washington-based poet, jazz scholar, critic and radio host, died Feb. 16 at a hospital in the District. He was 67. His fiancée, ...

Reuben Jackson, the longtime Vermont poet, jazz historian, music reviewer and educator whose smooth and authoritative voice distinguished him as a host of Vermont Public’s “Friday Night Jazz,” died on ...

1. LET ME BEGIN AGAIN; 2. AN ORDINARY MORNING; 3. THE SIMPLE TRUTH; 4. THEY FEED THEY LION (Instrumental); 5. TO CIPRIANO, IN THE WIND; 6. THE POEM CIRCLING HAMTRAMCK ...