Seeing sound through art. The rich sounds, rhythms ... and created specific works for albums by Charlie Parker, Donald Byrd, and other greats. Stuart Davis said jazz was one of the things that made ...

The great jazz drummers of the late ’60s—Elvin Jones, Tony Williams, Roy Haynes, Freddie Waits, Billy Higgins, and Joe Chambers—could command all that evolution while still steadfastly swinging.

On his version of "Along Came Betty" by another jazz great who passed this year ... alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson was the last survivor of Art Blakey's original 1954 Jazz Messengers.

Jazz explores the uniquely American paradox that our greatest art form was created by those who have had the peculiar experience of being unfree in our supposedly free land. African-Americans in ...