Charles Mingus

When jazz fans discuss the really big compositions of the past, a small number of controversial classics dominate the conversation: including Ellington's Black, Brown & Beige , Marsalis's Blood on the Fields , and Mingus's Epitaph . Read More

The next meeting of the Jazz St. Louis CD Listening Club will be held at 7:00 p.m. Read More

The next meeting of the Jazz St. Louis CD Listening Club will be held at 7:00 p.m. Read More

Sometimes a visionary artist can create something bigger themselves, a living testament to their influence that indelibly persists beyond their own expiration. Read More

What first attracted me to the group Das Racist (Himanshu Suri and Victor Vazquez) was not their popular "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" , or that they are part of the current chapter of the "Wesleyan Mafia" (a term first made popular in 2002 by Patricia Grandjean for The New York Times , referring to a small enclave of young, up-and-coming Hollywood directors who all shared status as Wesleyan alumni). Read More

A variety of neurological problems have affected the lives of giants in the jazz genre. Read More

His familiar style of documentary filmmaking has bred some contempt on the part of his critics, who can't wait for his new opus, 'The National Parks.' Read More

Several of this fall's promising jazz performances are clustered around the week of October 18. Read More

Bassist William Parker has taken on considerable risks before, but perhaps none so daring as dramatically reinterpreting Chicago-native Curtis Mayfield's work in the city where he may be the most revered. Read More