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Time for another PBS feature on Sonny Rollins, this one from the NewsHour. The occasion is this weekend’s Kennedy Center Honors, where Rollins will be one of five recipients...
It’s Jack Sheldon’s 80th birthday today. The trumpeter is unique among jazz musicians in having enjoyed a second career as an actor (Run Buddy Run), and as the iconic...
I’d never noticed until I heard the All Things Considered report on Wednesday that two recordings I’ve listened to for years, Robert Johnson’s “Kind-Hearted Woman” and Pablo Casals’...
I know Gene Norman’s voice best from his introduction of Max Roach and Clifford Brown at a Gene Norman Presents (GNP) concert in Hollywood in 1954. Norman was out front in...