WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States Mint launched a new coin Tuesday featuring jazz legend Duke Ellington, making him the first African-American to appear by himself on a circulating U.S. coin.

Just as well: he would have seemed out of place at this reunion of jazz’s elder statesmen, come to celebrate one of their own. They called it “A Salute to Eddie Condon,” the famed ...

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Of the literally thousands of songs jazz pianist Charlie Holland knew by heart ― and fingers ― his favorite was a Fats Waller standard musicians like to call "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself ...

According to HoopsHype’s Michael Scotto, the Jazz are bringing back big man Micah Potter to take the last two-way contract ...

September 9, 2024 • For its 20th anniversary, the DC Jazz Festival featured performances throughout the Washington, D.C., area culminating in a weekend jam-packed with performances stretched ...

Man With the Cucumber 7:51 5 ... and I have been touring a great deal with the George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band—which is where I also met and shared the trumpet section with Kenny Wheeler. Bob Malach ...

Rhythm. Color. Movement. Seeing sound through art. The rich sounds, rhythms, and colors of jazz inspired prominent visual artists of the 20th century. In depicting African American culture, Romare ...

And a young man named John Scopes went on trial for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in defiance of a Tennessee law. The Scopes trial was a signature event of the Jazz Age. It had that ...

According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the Utah Jazz are signing big man Drew Eubanks to a two-year, $10 million contract.

If the Pelicans were unwilling to pay him big money as a cap-strapped team as is, a move with the Jazz could make some sense.

The ‘I Am Jazz’ star says she’s lost nearly 100 lbs. in two years but is “still running towards more goals” Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously ...