Charlie Watts provided beats for every one of the Rolling Stones’ albums going back to 1964. He was also a fan of jazz, even forming his own group apart from the iconic band that sold over 200 million ...

While Charlie Watts is best known for his 58-year career as a member of the Rolling Stones, the late drummer was also an avid collector of both 20th-century literature and jazz memorabilia. This fall, ...

It’s hard to overstate how difficult it was for young British people to obtain records from American jazz- and bluesmen in the 1950s and ’60s. Figures like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bukka White, and even ...

My book Backbeats: A History of Rock and Roll in 15 Drummers tells a familiar story from an unfamiliar vantage. Moving from Chicago blues to Phil Spector’s early-1960s confections to the British ...