Born in Chicago and raised in California, Miles attended Chouinard Art Institute in LA after a stint in the navy. Eventually relocating to New York City, he worked at Esquire magazine for a time and ...

He Made Jazz Visual William Claxton, the photographer responsible for some of the most iconic jazz album covers, died this week. John spoke to him last year at OCMA's "Birth of the Cool" Exhibit.

The pianist Orrin Evans, the bassist Eric Revis and the drummer Nasheet Waits have each been indispensable to 21st-century jazz, both as bandleaders and sidemen. But despite a near-20-year history ...