For the holiday, Craft Recordings is releasing a series of collectible vinyl reprintings of the A Charlie Brown Christmas ...

Historic Route 66 across Missouri – a road trip through the Heart of America - Looking for authentic Midwest vintage charm, ...

In his last performance in Iowa City, jazz great Herbie Hancock mentioned how he felt “at home in Iowa” because of his years ...

Celebrate the December birthday of the late, great jazz organist Jimmy Smith by listening to his recordings with the Avenue ...

Some books give Smith's birthdate as Dec. 8, 1925, but more recent sources cite 1928 as his birth year. Regardless, the late musician always delivered the goods, even as the beats behind him changed.

Holiday playlists change every year, but a handful of Christmas records from the 1950s and 1960s still feel like the season’s ...

A new piano bar and jazz club is joining Fondren’s entertainment scene this week.Louise’s, a cocktail-forward lounge inspired by the golden age of jazz and classic Hollywood style, will open to the ...

Hollywood producer Tom Rice has returned to his hometown of Jackson, Mississippi, to open a new business. Rice is opening Louise's Piano Bar, an art-deco styled club in the Fondren District. The venue ...

For a lot of years, Vera Brandes couldn’t listen. Not once had she heard the bestselling solo jazz album of all time—Keith Jarrett’s passionate and sublime The Köln Concert—though she’d been essential ...

Originally published in London in 1986 by Quartet Books LTD, Bob Gordon's seminal work on the jazz styles and groups that developed primarily in Los Angeles in the 1950s has long been out-of-print and ...