Curtis Fuller belongs in a first-rate group of trombone players who always make the trombone sound fluid and inviting. His ability to play…

Cecil Percival Taylor was an American jazz musician and composer, and the leading icon of free-jazz pianists from the 1950’s until his death in…

Major Holley, also known as “Mule”, was best known for singing along in unison with his bowed, upright bass solos, and for his sense…

March is Women’s History Month and Jazz icon, composer, lyricist and performer Abbey Lincoln is the featured artist at WNCU for March 2018….

Jazz critics agree that “Sweet Poppa Lou” Donaldson is one of the greatest alto saxophonists of all time.  He began his career as…

Carmen Lundy began her professional career in Miami, FL as a jazz vocalist and composer when there were very few young, gifted and…

David ‘Fathead’ Newman was born in Corsicana, Texas on February 24, 1933. His family soon moved to Dallas, where they settled and David…

By virtue of his warm, flamboyant stage manner, longevity, constant touring, and appearances in the mass media, Tito Puente is probably the most…

Few entertainers have ever commanded such depth of artistry in every medium. Fewer still have been rewarded with Broadway’s coveted Tony Award (Best…

North Carolina native Woody Shaw, Jr. is today considered to be the last major innovator in the lineage of 20th-century trumpet that began…