The advanced publicity for this exciting historically-based concert must have hit the pleasure centers of many fans, as it sold out on the second day after tickets became available. Was the rush to ...

When Elmore Leonard died in 2013, he was the undisputed king of crime fiction. Writers and celebrities like Walker Percy, Nora Ephron, Clint Eastwood, Donald Fagen, Stephen King, Martin Amis, Ann ...

It was 65 years ago today, on March 9, 1950, that Miles Davis completed the sessions for what would eventually become the album Birth of the Cool. That day, Davis went into WMGM Studios in New York ...

A few years ago, an electronics company claimed in its ads that its products were “slightly ahead of our time.” That’s a perfect description of the way the music now known as Miles Davis’s “The Birth ...