Jazz drums

BY CHET FALZERANO Some of the most sought after vintage drum kits today are the small “round badge” Gretsch jazz sets from the ’50s and ’60s. Known as the Progressive Jazz Outfit, this kit, introduced in the 1955 Gretsch catalog, included a 20″ x 14″ bass drum, 12″ x 8″ and 14″ x 14″ toms […]

By Claire O'Neill In the 1950's, photography was hardly considered art. If you wanted to be taken seriously as a photographer, you snapped mountains and models — not your neighbors. It also helped to be white. But Roy DeCarava, turned all of t...

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William "Popsie" Randolph was the preeminent paparazzo photographer of the New York music scene from the 1940's through the 1970's. He shot on assignment for various record companies, publicity firms, newspapers and trade magazines, he chronicled the transition from the Big Bands into the small tight Jazz combos and to

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Damien Chazelle’s new film, which stars Miles Teller and J. K. Simmons, honors neither jazz nor the cinema; it’s a celebration of petty mastery.

Photos of Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie and other jazz legends playing at photographer Gjon Mili's studio in the 1940s.

"Happy 60th Birthday Stewart Copeland... Stewart Armstrong Copeland (born July 16, 1952) is an American musician, best known as the drummer for the band The Police. During the group's extended hiatus from the mid-1980s to 2007, he played in other bands and composed soundtracks. Copeland was ranked by a Rolling Stone magazine reader poll in 2010 as the fifth greatest drummer of all time. Born July 16, 1952 in Alexandria, VA, Copeland -- the son of a CIA agent -- spent his formative years in…