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Harry Colomby was a schoolteacher with a love of jazz when he stopped by the Cafe Bohemia in New Yorks Greenwich Village in 1955 to remind drummer Ar

A chance encounter with Thelonious Monk led to a 14-year stint as his manager. After seeing a young Michael Keaton at a stand-up club, he became his manager, too.

Harry Colomby, who made the unusual career transition from high school teacher to talent...

David Surette inspired and nurtured many musicians, and founded the Mandolin Festival.

Here are the CBC Books' picks for the top Canadian middle-grade and YA books of the year.

Jazz Zelig’s long, strange trip from Howlin’ Wolf to Norah Jones

"All this was totally my imagination of a faraway place." - Bob Thompson An important traveling exhibition offers a rich reconsideration of a visionary African American painter. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Bob Thompson (1937–1966) earned critical acclaim in the late 1950s for his paintings of figurative complexity and chromatic intensity. Bob Thompson: This House Is Mine borrows its name from a diminutive but exquisite painting created by the artist in 1960. With this t...

More than 40 years after his death, Bill Evans continues to exert an enormous influence on jazz. Brian Priestley re-evaluates the work of this still misunderstood master musician

PHILADELPHIA — When the Met Philadelphia reopened as a concert venue in 2018, John Legend was the second headliner to take the century-old opera house’s stage. (Bob Dylan beat him

Philly has historically been home to generations of forward-thinking, boundlessly creative Black artists. This year, the Black Music City program celebrated that legacy with a series of projects.