Picking up where we left off yesterday, 1949 was quite a remarkable year for jazz. The second American Federation of Musicians' ban ended in late '48, allowing record production to resume after nine ...

It just so happened that "Birth of the Cool" by the Miles Davis Nonet was the next disc in my CD player the last time I played through the self-titled CD by the Big Time Jazz Orchestra, the Twin Ports ...

You know what cool is. So compare whatever idea of cool you have in your head to one from the Gola people of Liberia, as presented by Yale art historian Robert Farris Thompson, who has made a career ...

We've made it nine years—four years more than Ziggy Stardust promised us, thank you very much—and to celebrate we're once again discussing ensembles the numerical size of which matches our anniversary ...

Tenor sax player Joe Lovano has revisited some of the most beautiful jazz orchestrations ever recorded, the Miles Davis records known as "The Birth of the Cool." On his new CD Streams of Expression, ...