Bebop architect, Afro-Cuban jazz pioneer, comedian, virtuoso trumpeter and tongue-in-cheek presidential candidate, John Birks Gillespie...

The great gentleman of jazz and swinging sideman to Dizzy Gillespie, Cannonball Adderley and Sarah Vaughan was born on this day 96 years...

Celebrating Fats Waller, Cab Calloway, Slim Gaillard, Louis Jordan and hepcats Last Sunday, Sept. 22, I had the pleasure of addressing a...