DENVER, Colo — Preserving jazz history is preserving Black history. "I'm sitting here at Dazzle, which is the premier jazz club in the entire Rocky Mountain region,” said Purnell Steen, a pianist and ...

I have a theory about jazz history: The conceptual breakthroughs, the new ways of playing, are created by horn players. But those breakthroughs are then fleshed out into new harmonic systems by ...

We’re here to help you put jazz history’s names and faces together—and just in time for Jazz Appreciation Month Megan Salocks LeRoy Neiman was an American painter who was well known for his ...