It starts on page 23 of the 33⅓ book,  Live At The Apollo by Douglas Wolk. The historic arguably epic James Brown album was ostensibly r...

You may or may not know the name Armstrong Williams. If you know it, you either live in Washington D.C., and/or you were paying attention ...

I like Jazz, but I have a particular soft spot for Bebop. As a genre, it was short-lived starting with Coleman Hawkins highlights in the e...

Symphony Sid was the man that brought bebop to the masses. We don't know for sure how Sidney Tarnopol became known as Symphony Sid. In t...

In 1974, Billboard published an article claiming that as of that year, the Magnificent Montague aka Nathaniel Montague, had worked at 80 ra...