The cover of Kirsten Mickelwait’s debut novel, “The Ashtrays Are Full and the Glasses Are Empty.” Courtesy Koehler Books. Kirsten Mickelwait, a Palo Alto native, tells the story of a little-known real ...

(The following is an excerpt from former New Orleans Saints standout Steve Gleason’s new book “A Life Impossible,” released April 30 by Alfred A. Knopf Publishing.) In 2004, on the Thursday afternoon ...

Jazz Jennings came out as transgender at 5 years old and, with her family's support, started to transition. In 2007, the then 6-year-old entered the public eye on national television when she told ...

The sign over the nightclub says it all: Cecil Taylor starts where Thelonious Monk leaves off. Jazz has never really come to terms with Cecil Taylor. Comparisons with Bartok, Messiaen, Stravinsky, ...

Your toes didn’t wait long before they started tapping. They knew what was coming, almost as soon as the band was seated. They knew before the first notes were played and the hep cats and jazz babies ...

The subtitle of The Jazzmen says a lot about what drew Tye to his subjects: "How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America." Tye has now written several books that grapple ...

If only for his trumpet and flugelhorn playing Kenny Wheeler stands as one of the modern greats, marrying linear lyricism and free-jazz expression like no-one else. But as a composer, Wheeler was just ...

Notable recent deaths include the Israeli mathematician who was said to have cracked the ‘Bible code,’ and a Grateful Dead fan who demystified autism. Like many Holocaust survivors, Dan Morgenstern’s ...