Hughes was born in Missouri and raised in Kansas. He was of mixed ancestry. But early on, Hughes chose to identify as black ...

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He sang and co-wrote some of the definitive teenage anthems of the 1950s and early ’60s, including “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,” and then reinvented his career in the ’70s.

Bassist Ron Carter, a graduate of Cass Tech in Detroit and a member of the pathbreaking Miles Davis Quintet in the 1960s, is the most recorded bassist in jazz history, appearing on roughly 2,300 ...

In 1995, the Northampton Center for the Arts asked long-time Connecticut River Valley jazz producer Glenn Siegel to produce a solo piano series, and “A World of Piano” was born. Throughout its history ...

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In a new album, the Ukranian-born, New York-based pianist and composer Vadim Neselovskyi channels the horror and hope he's ...