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Henry "Hank" Jones (July 31, 1918 – May 16, 2010) Hank Jones remembers his early Bop influences after leaving the Detroit ...

In 1972, Charles Mingus undertook a European tour. It started in July, shortly after participating in Newport In New York Jazz Festiva...

It's as thin as a piece of paper and they call the Flexi Disc, also known as a Phonosheet or Soundsheet. According to Wikipedia it i...

I think it was John Hammond who once complained about one of the most stylish jazz pianists of all time being too shy to play piano. Of ...

Charles Melvin "Cootie" Williams (July 10, 1911 – September 15, 1985)

this picture is  from another performance of the second sacred concert I think what I've gathered here, from various sources, is ...

Hazel Scott and Duke Ellington. This is the picture in which the Duke's infamous scar, result of a razor cut by a jealous woman, is t...

T his playlist contains a bunch of songs played on my latest jazz radio programme for Iran [October 23, 2011], dedicated to our fathers....

Recently surfaced on the Internet, here is Teddy Wilson performing a couple of Ellington/Strayhorn compositions on July 1975 (the locati...