The 1950s and early '60s were a high point for jazz. Jazz was popular. You could hear it on TV, on college campuses, and on US State Department tours. It was an era of mind-boggling creativity. Cool ...

Think of jazz photography, and you must think of Herman Leonard, the shutterbug whose moody shots of the ’40s and ’50s jazz pantheon of 52nd Street and Harlem capture the soul of that musical era like ...

Juilliard-trained and brilliant, bassist Henry Grimes started out in the sweaty mainstream of ’50s jazz with the likes of Arnett Cobb and Buddy Rich. In the ’60s he threw his lot in with the ...