"Always playing" may be the best capsule description of a player whose more than six-decade-long career has been a virtually continuous montage of musical images—each one featuring Shaughnessy sitting confidently behind his double-bass-drum setup. Read More
The big band era didn't end with the rise of bebop in 1944. Read More
Now that so many archives have gone digital, it can be easy to forget that many collections exist only partly online, if they have a digital component at all. Read More
Boyd Raeburn was never much of a soloist, but his short-lived big bands in the mid-'40s featured some of the most advanced ... Read the full Boyd Raeburn bio.