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Nat Hentoff

The masterful trumpeter William Frank “Frankie” Newton (1906-1954) was well established in jazz circles long before he...

Joe Gordon Story Part 1 | Joe Gordon Story Part 2 In early spring 1958, Joe Gordon abruptly left Boston for...

Joe Gordon replaced Clifford Brown in Art Blakey’s pre-Messengers group in early 1954. That band, with alto...

“Whaddya need? I’m on a deadline.” Thus would begin my first phone conversations with Nat Hentoff, the jazz lover,...

Neither vocalist extraordinaire Jackie Cain, who died on September 15, 2014, nor her husband and musical partner, Roy...

Billy Eckstine and his orchestra opened at the Rio Casino for two weeks on December 8, 1946, and on Saturday the 14th,...