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How to Tour Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans

Jazz is synonymous with the Big Easy, and there’s no bigger name in the history of the genre than Satchmo
January 31, 2013 | By Nina Fedrizzi

Esperanza Spalding has brought new life to jazz.

Esperanza Spalding Took on Bieber, Now Takes on Jazz

The innovative bassist and winner of the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award for performing arts is taking jazz to a whole new place
December 2012 | By dream hampton

Joe Temperley

Joe Temperley’s Ageless Sax

The Scottish baritone saxophone musician recalls his 60-year career and the famous singers he’s accompanied
October 13, 2011 | By Jeff Greenwald

Randy Fertel

New Orleans Beyond Bourbon Street

From out-of-the-way jazz joints to po' boy shacks, a native son shares his favorite haunts in the Big Easy
September 2011 | By Randy Fertel

Gene Krupa drum kit

Gene Krupa: a Drummer with Star Power

Rising to fame with the Benny Goodman band, Gene Krupa was the first superstar drummer
March 2011 | By Owen Edwards

John Edward Hasse

The Smithsonian's Ambassador of Jazz

Music curator John Edward Hasse travels the globe teaching the genre that revolutionized American music
September 2010 | By Erica R. Hendry

Julia Keefe

Julia Keefe’s Jazz

The young musician discusses the joys of improvisation and her new tribute to fellow American Indian artist Mildred Bailey
April 09, 2009 | By Katy June-Friesen

Chuck Mangione

For Smithsonian, Mangione Memorabilia 'Feels So Good'

The jazz flugelhornist and composer kicks off Jazz History Month with a donation to the National Museum of American History
April 03, 2009 | By Jeff Campagna

Sanabria

Rhythm and Identity

A Q&A with Bobby Sanabria, musician, composer and professor of Latin jazz
September 15, 2008 | By Robin T. Reid

Lennie Foy

Jukebox

Hot Horns
May 2008 | By Kenneth R. Fletcher

Jukebox

Jazz Requiem
February 2008 | By Jess Blumberg

Jazz innovator Jason Moran says he was transformed at age 14 by the music of Thelonious Monk: “Any money I earned from a gig, I’d run out and buy Monk records.”

Keeper of the Keys

Pianist Jason Moran laces his strikingly original music with the soulful sounds of jazz greats
October 2007 | By Jamie Katz

"He was an incredible piano player, the most fantastic in jazz," Frank Driggs says of Earl Hines (at the microphone with his band in Philadelphia in 1932). The photo is one of more than 78,000 in Driggs

Jazz Man

Louis Armstrong before he was Satchmo? A youthful Ella? For photographs of musicians great or obscure, just about everyone turns to Frank Driggs
September 2005 | By Jerry Adler

Jazzed About Roy Haynes

A robust 78, one of the greatest drummers of all time still riffs up a storm and wows fellow musicians
December 2003 | By Sam Stephenson


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