Rebellious jazz took flight in Harlem at Minton’s Playhouse, but it was nurtured on the tree-lined streets that gave pioneering Black musicians a home. Dizzy Gillespie during a photo session in ...

Most jazz fans know Dizzy Gillespie's crucial role in the creation of bebop and every good collection should have at least a few tracks from his glory days of the forties. The man wrote "Night in ...

Dizzy Gillespie in 1955. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, LC-USZ62-114443 I heard a version of this story from Bill some years ago ...

2024 has more than proven to be an intense political year as the country has faced the assassination attempt of one candidate and then the withdrawal of another just four months before the polls open ...