Box sets are back, baby! Some of us old timers thought they might be gone for good after the CD crash (remember when Joe Henderson's The Milestone Years was going for twenty-bucks at your local mall?) ...

This is FRESH AIR. Jazz pianist Sonny Clark grew up in and around Pittsburgh and made his first recordings in LA during the heyday of cool jazz in the 1950s. He later moved to New York in 1957, where ...

Wine, Wine, Wine; The Pleasure's All Mine; Dirty Work at the Crossroads; Hoochie Coochie Man; Have You Ever Loved a Woman; Texas Flood; When Did You Leave Heaven; Let The Good Times Roll; I Miss you ...

There’s a moment that never ceases to amaze me in a 1932 Jerome Kern song, “I’ve Told Ev’ry Little Star,” as played by Sonny Rollins in the late 1950s. Modern jazz, vaudeville, and operetta coalesce ...