“He remains an invisible man in black music history. Rumors swirl — some say he's a junkie, others insist his masculinity is a fraud... Gospel singers whispered his name, women fol­lowed him home, junkies and drag queens idolized him.”

“Maybe the best that can be said of jazz in the ’70s is that it didn’t just survive. It established its own precedents and raised important questions about an art that was finally pushed beyond its golden age.”

“What seems to be about to happen is what LeRoi Jones called Unity Music in 1966. It will include the entire range of black music, maybe in one long performance, but pivoting on the drums.”

In 1995, the “American Splendor” maestro took a memory trip along 52nd Street with guitar great Bill DeArango

With his E-Collective, the trumpeter makes the political personal

The excellent sixth volume of the Miles Davis Bootleg Series shows we haven't had too much of the legendary jazz musician

The republication of Val Wilmer’s “As Serious as Your Life” from 1977 resonates today