Eureka!” the thundering cry of the Gold Rush! In 1848, gold was discovered at John Sutter’s Mill in Coloma located on the ...

Hello to our readers! Thank you for your interest in the music of great American composer Fred Rose. Jeff Barnhart and I have ...

Since 2016, the New Orleans Ragtime Festival has been dedicated to preserving and promoting the vibrant legacy of ragtime ...

Some performers spend their careers chasing Carnegie Hall. Harry Connick Jr., however, spent much of his career avoiding it.

Although he is rarely listed as one of the top prebop tenor-saxophonists along with Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Ben ...

Earl Bostic (1913-65) was a major name in the 1950s and early 1960s. A superb alto-saxophonist who had impeccable technique ...

One can never have too many Ella Fitzgerald records. She was remarkably consistent during her prime years (which lasted for ...

Gregor Benko, a self-taught collector-historian who spent six decades tracking down lost recordings of the great Romantic-era ...

Celebrating the Sax Craze of the 1920s is nothing short of extraordinary—an exhilarating, 18-track collection unlike ...

Please Say You Will (1895) is Scott Joplin’s first published composition. Though the “I’m sorry, please take me back” lyrics ...

At this point in time, it would not be surprising if tenor-saxophonist Scott Hamilton was running out of inspiration along with new songs to explore. He burst ...

Helen Humes and Big Joe Turner never recorded together and do not seem to have ever shared a vocal, but their careers had ...