Billy Eckstine

Jazz singer and pianist Freddy Cole, brother of the late legendary singer Nat "King" Cole, will headline a jazz concert tonight at 7:30 at the Strand Theatre to benefit the Cobb Library Foundation. Read More

I don't ordinarily review collections of essays, especially collections of previously published essays, but I don't want to miss the chance to tell readers just how interesting and accomplished a cultural critic David Hajdu is, and this, his first collection, is as good a place to begin as any. Read More

Several of Pittsburgh's Black singers and musicians were on hand, channeling their favorite Motown performers to pay tribute to Motown Records' 50th anniversary. Read More

D.M. saxophone player and W.D.M. singer will be honored at hall of fame reception. Read More

Raised in Brooklyn and Boston, and a hardcore New Yorker for a good chunk of the '60s, pianist Steve Kuhn now lives removed from the fray, in a still-not-quite-exurban town on the east bank of the Hudson River, one hour by train from Grand Central Station. Read More

Pittsburgh's premier jazz club, the Crawford Grill, attracted legendary musicians and helped to establish Pittsburgh as a nationally known jazz hot spot. Read More

For the first time in jazz's brief century, many leading artists are staying active beyond their eighth decade. Read More

In his autobiography, Miles Davis called musicians Dizzy Gillespie, Buddy Anderson and Art Blakely by their names, but he referred to Billy Eckstine simply as B. (He described B's sound as the "greatest feeling I ever had in my life--with my clothes on.") Read More

Now, Hajdu muses on music, movies, comics and culture in general in "Heroes and Villains." Read More

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