Parker hailed from the jazz well that was Kansas City, and, by 1940, he’d joined pianist Jay McShann’s Band, writing arrangements as well as leading the sax section. By 1945, the Charlie ...

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Hi, I am Mark Rapp, and this is Rapp on Jazz. Art Tatum Jr. was born in 1909. Blind from a young age, Tatum overcame obstacles to become a virtuoso pianist whose technical brilliance and harmonic ...

The following answers to this artful question each win a random book. Art is something we do, a verb. Art is an expression of our thoughts, emotions, intuitions, and desires, but it is even more ...