A buddy and I were recently discussing the notion that there was NO way Fred Astaire  could succeed in today's ente...

Charlie Parker, Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, July 1952 at Radio Recorders, Hollywood, photo by Esther Bubley Today, Wednesday, August...

Print advertising, 1952 Shirt label, c.1952 New Yorker magazine, October 18, 1952 This week's post features ...

Jazz Scene U.S.A. was a 1962 television series of 26 episodes hosted by the late, great vocalist/composer/performer/activist Oscar Brow...

Out to Lunch by Eric Dolphy, 1964, cover photo and design by Reid Miles Well as my wife likes to say, I've gone done d...

Alvin Lustig, 1949 In a previous weblog entry , I quoted Charles Eames in saying "Eventually, everything connects." The...

What is There to Say? by the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, Columbia CL-1307, 1959 One of my favorite Gerry Mulligan LPs is What is There t...