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Fenton Robinson Dear Reader: Please don’t mistake this blog as an endorsement of cigarette smoking. I chain-smoked Pall Malls, Kools, Marlboro Lights and other coffin nails...
George Avakian in 2003 One of the first album covers to grab my attention as a kid was Ambassador Satch. Released in 1956, it pictured Louis Armstrong in a formal cutaway...
Jon Hendricks Jon Hendricks, who died on Wednesday at 96, was for over seven decades an artist who embodied the characteristic “sound of surprise” that the late New Yorker writer...
Published November 22, 2017 at 11:56 AM EST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Coleman Hawkins This rare footage of Coleman Hawkins playing “I Wish I Were Twins”...