DENVER – Billy Wallace can pound out the notes to more than 4,000 songs strictly by memory, but the 86-year-old jazz pianist -- who once played with some of the country's best -- no longer recognizes ...

SOMETHING TO DO FOR MEMORIAL WEEKEND, WE HAVE JUST THE THING. THERE IS A BIG JAZZ FESTIVAL HAPPENING IN OLD SACRAMENTO. AND THIS MORNING WE WELCOME SACRAMENTO CITY COUNCILMAN PHIL AND MIKE BENNETT ...

An old saxophone rests in its balding velvet-lined case. The worn keys seems fragile, the screws maybe loose, the metal tarnished. It’s on loan from local jazz musician Tom Hall, in an exhibit case at ...

Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard performed at the Blue Morocco in 1967 with other top jazz artists like Bennie Maupin, Kenny Barron, Herbie Lewis and Freddie Waits. Their never-before-distributed live show ...

Cutty and Zutty were there. So were Peanuts, Woody, Yank, Wingy, Red, Pee Wee and Willie the Lion.* Sammy Davis Jr. was supposed to come, but he pleaded “fatigue” at the last minute and didn’t show.

The keyboardist and harpist Alice Coltrane has the disadvantage of bearing the last name of her husband, John Coltrane. He was already world-famous in the mid-sixties, when they married and started ...

Unless you’re a longtime jazz aficionado, you might only know the names and music of a handful of stars and legends. But what about all those who’ve built a life working in this art form? A new ...

Tom Brown’s Jazz Fest plan was simple. He was going to find a roost in the WWOZ Jazz Tent and listen. He didn’t study the cubes or any such thing. He knows what he likes, and what he likes takes place ...

Hear tracks by Perfume Genius, Lucy Dacus, Bartees Strange and others. By Jon Pareles Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new tracks. Listen to the ...