With major home-grown talents like playwright August Wilson, jazz legend Billy Strayhorn and photographer Teenie Harris, among others, a key facet of that excellence emerged from African-American households. This rich history deserves to be not only...

As I write in today's Wall Street Journal (go here if you're a subscriber), Benny is the stylistic heir to Billy Strayhorn and Tadd Dameron. He is to jazz what Carole King and Harry Nilsson are to pop-rock and Stevie Wonder is to soul. If you're in New...

It was opened in 1931 by Gus Greenlee, a businessman from the Hill District who also owned the Pittsburgh Crawfords, one of the most famous Negro League baseball teams. Hosting performances by jazz greats such as Billy Eckstine, Duke Ellington, Dizzy...

Standard—only his second appearance there in about 10 years. "That takes me back. I wrote several of my best-known songs in that apartment between 1959 and 1962. Quincy Jones lived there, too, in apartment 6H."Mr. Golson is widely considered among...

“I remember our saxophonist, Bruce Boege, saying we have a collective experience of 200 years of playing jazz and how could we not have heard of this song?” “I realized at that point that there was this gigantic iceberg out there. Most of the Duke...

Arriving at a Chanel show, one most certainly has an idea of what to expect from Lagerfeld. The collection will look like Chanel with all the expected signposts. A riff is not a reinvention. A jazz musician may do his own improvisation on “Take the A...