Fletcher Henderson

There you are, texting away as you walk down West 46th Street in Midtown, and you nearly bump right into the big, bright gramophone on the sidewalk outside the Hotel Edison. Read More

Louis Armstrong a k a Satchmo a k a Pops was to music what Picasso was to painting, what Joyce was to fiction: an innovator who changed the face of his art form, a fecund and endlessly inventive pioneer whose discovery of his own voice helped remake 20th-century culture. Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va.--Sue Ellen Cray was still a little girl when her musician cousin Don Redman was leading orchestras in Harlem and writing arrangements for famous jazz names such as Jimmy Dorsey, County Basie and Henry James. Read More

Recorded jazz is still under a century old, but in a little over nine decades an enormous quantity of music has amassed. Read More

Lynn Ischay, The Plain Dealer Trumpeter Jack Schantz, left, conductor-clarinetist Carl Topilow and trombonist-arranger Paul Ferguson explore swing music with the Cleveland Pops Orchestra on Friday at Severance Hall. Read More

In college I was privileged to take a jazz history taught by the late great alto saxophonist Jackie McLean (www.music-city.org/Jackie-McLean/discography/). Read More

Taking the reins of a jazz band numbering over a dozen musicians is challenging enough. Read More

The King of Swing would be 100 this year, and if Benny Goodman were alive, he'd be pretty impressed by the birthday bash that Yale has come up with this week to celebrate the milestone. Read More

Benny Goodman, "The King of Swing," was born a century ago in Chicago, Ill., but by age 10 he was learning to play the clarinet and listening to New Orleans jazz that ventured northward. Read More

Michael J. West, a regular contributor to jazz.com, reports below on the performance by an all-star trio at Bohemian Caverns. Read More