Jackie McLean on alto sax runs away with most of the best lines. His playing is surprisingly light and breezy. The music is not so much songs—there are no vocals—as quartet music played by the ...

There seems to be an epidemic of loneliness in the world today. We wonder why. Yet, if you look around—a train, a café, a school, even a family dinner table—everyone is connecting with something ...

Curtis Mayfield is often remembered for penning the popular theme "Freddie's Dead." The irony of this title echoes sentiments of out-of-the-loop jazzers who thought iconic Blue Note pianist Freddie ...