Celebrities having birthdays during the week of April 27-May 3 include actor Jessica Alba, wrestler-actor Dwayne Johnson and ...

We're giving some big ups to organ maestro Big John Patton this week. He was one of a number of B3 players to make their mark on Blue Note Records, capturing the aesthetic of the soul jazz movement ...

This bluesy batch of sultry, sexy, night-moves originally appeared on 11 different LPs from Prestige Records’ Moodsville subsidiary: buttery-rich introspective sides from the likes of Yusef Lateef, ...

Jazz guitar icon George Freeman passed away on April 1 at the age of 97. The celebrated musician had planned to mark his 98th birthday on April 10 with a series of concerts at Chi ...

Her impact is certainly still felt today; vocalists who employ a deeply personal, soul-baring approach can ... Eldridge and Doc Cheatham on trumpets, Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster and Lester ...

Ventura spent much ... Saxophonist Charlie Ventura has gotten a bum rap. For too long he's been thought of as a Coleman Hawkins clone and his vast contributions to jazz and R&B have been overlooked or ...

Today in Music History for April 18: ...

Coleman Hawkins, Cab Calloway, Fats Waller, Sarah Vaughan, Louis Jordan, The Ink Spots, the Mills Brothers, Billie Holiday and Charlie Christian. In his teens, he fell in love with Dizzy Gillespie ...

They got matched with Mag, a “quiet, kind, polite, gentle soul,” who spent much of his ... Rockets), Nimari Burnett (Alabama/Michigan) and Coleman Hawkins (Illinois/Kansas State).