Um, Mr. Stewart, if you're reading this, first I want to apologize. In the past I wrote some things that you may have found slightly offensive. Like those bits about harmless Uncle Rod who shows up on ...

Donald Miller (Blue Like Jazz) never liked jazz because it doesn’t resolve. One night he listened for 15 minutes to a man on the street play the saxophone without opening his eyes. “Sometimes you have ...

Jazz is the sound of God laughing. And I believe in it. I came to know jazz as a child, stretched out beneath my uncle's baby grand. I would lie there for hours drawing while Uncle Charlie practiced.

On a Saturday night last month, about a half-mile from a mural featuring Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, and John Coltrane, a trio led by pianist Danny Mixon warmed up with the show ...