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Vahey “Tak” Takvorian was a trombonist by trade, a big-band trombonist by preference, and a member of some of the very...

Opening night of the 13th Boston Globe Jazz Festival featured the return of one of the most newsworthy figures in the...

The Ritz-Carlton, at Arlington and Newbury Streets, was always the hotel of the Proper Bostonians, with their...

Band singer and movie dubber Margherita Maria Francesca LaCentra—Peg LaCentra— was born in Boston April 10, 1910....

Mar 14, 2013 | Jazz history

Billie Holiday made history by joining the Art Shaw Orchestra at Boston's Roseland-State Ballroom. An unhappy Billie...

On January 10, 2010, Dick Johnson, the multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, and favorite son of Brockton, Mass. died at...