But it was hearing Ella Fitzgerald’s legendary “Song Books” that changed her life inspiring her to go to ... Back on dry land and just 21, Martin formed her first quartet (featuring guitar-great Jim ...
Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. In “Open Socrates,” the scholar Agnes Callard argues that the ancient Greek ...
In his mostly sane and admirable book Black Nationalism ... All About Jazz is celebrating Jackie McLean's birthday today! John Lenwood (Jackie) McLean was an alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader and ...