“When he walks into a room,” trumpeter and bandleader Wynton Marsalis once said of Jimmy Heath, “jazz history is made.” Not only was Mr. Heath one of the most accomplished saxophonists and composers ...

Is jazz showing its age? (From the July, 1996, issue of The Atlantic Monthly.) A selective guide to jazz sites on the Web. It isn't just the generation gap between today's most popular jazz musicians ...

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