Pioneering jazz pianist-singer Nat King Cole is best known for classics such as “Mona Lisa” and “The Christmas Song” as well ...

Welcome to the (re)launch of Mercury Music Picks! Every week we’ll sift through the sea of concerts, gigs, and shows to let you know what’s really good in Portland. This week we’ve got three(!) local ...

To Art Kane's delight, they did come and it did work – 58 musicians, including many jazz legends, turned up. The photograph is now considered one of the most iconic in modern music history and ...

but the music was sublime. While jazz was becoming mired in tedious squabbles between traditionalists, fusionistas and proponents of the “free” genre competing to be as unlistenable as ...