Grant Green

The new 70-disc Miles Davis mega-box set collecting all of the trumpeter's work for Columbia/Sony Music is out, and David Was, jazz fan and one of the principals in the group Was (Not Was), reviews it for NPR here . Read More

The new 70-disc Miles Davis mega-box set collecting all of the trumpeter's work for Columbia/Sony Music is out, and David Was , jazz fan and one of the principals in the group Was (Not Was), reviews it for NPR here . Read More

One place Nelson hasn't worked much since he left town in the '70s is Pittsburgh. Read More

Duke Ellington at the Olympia Theater in Paris, 1958. Read More

In the early '80s, when I was a socially awkward teenage jazz geek, it wasn't easy to find filmed footage of departed musicians. Read More

There's an interview with Curtis Mayfield on Rhino's 2xCD reissue of his Super Fly soundtrack that puts the contradictions of blaxploitation cinema's relationship with soul music into sharp, clear terms. Read More