Some of the most remarkable time capsules unearthed for WWOZ’s “Jazz Festing in Place” date to the very first New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in 1970. Historic performances by Mahalia Jackson, ...

In a symbolic step toward the greening of America, newly minted festivals in the 1950s were taking jazz, a hard-core urban art form, out of its traditional dark, claustrophobic, smoke-filled venues ...

With British jazz in 2021 in better shape than ever before, record companies are being emboldened to revisit their tape libraries and reissue historic but long deleted albums. At the same time, ...

With cocktail glasses clinking in the background, jazz singer Billie Holiday stood near a piano amid partygoers inside an apartment overlooking New York City’s Hudson River. She began singing “Good ...

Where would we be without Ella? Without that voice, that propulsive sense of swing, that fleet technique and that seemingly inexhaustible well of improvisational creativity? Ella Fitzgerald, who died ...

Inside a little shed in southwest Indianapolis, Kyle Long found something almost “too amazing to be true.” It was some time in the early 2000s. Like he often did during his teenage and 20-something ...