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Award-winning jazz bassist, educator and mentor Hayden, at age 68, is today the youngest recipient of Detroit’s highest arts ...

An American art form now more than a century old, jazz emerged from the streets of New Orleans. The city has produced some of the world's great jazz musicians ... South at the time, Armstrong ...

Embedded in the music, in its riveting biographies and ... Today, I can't find the other records. I listen to jazz all the time — old and new, straight-ahead and avant-garde and fusion, swing ...

Leading many musicians through ... bandleader who co-founded The Jazz Messengers and led the legendary group from 1956 until his death in 1990. During that time, the band – which became known ...

There’s only one reason to write about music and musicians ... to the emergence of jazz in the early 20th century, and this book is a wonderful romp through a time that almost no one living ...