On a hot August morning in 1958, something extraordinary happened on a Harlem street. Fifty-seven jazz legends gathered on the stoop of 17 East 126th Street, not for a performance, but for a photograph that would become one of the most iconic images in American music history: A Great Day in Harlem. Captured by Art…
In jazz, as in most other forms of popular music, itโs women who are bringing the new and much needed energies to the cause of keeping the music relevant and important. Three recent releases […]