Jazz was really the music that facilitated integration among the races in this country and never got credit for it. Every picture tells a story. After mining for gold in the form of photographic ...

In 2020, I published A Map of Jazz: Crossroads of Music and Human Rights (WS Publishing), a book that looks at the culture of jazz on a timeline with cultures of the world. At more than 500 pages, the ...

WASHINGTON - Pete Rugolo, who helped shape the sound of jazz in the 1940s and 1950s as a composer, arranger, and record producer and later wrote several theme songs for television dramas including ...