Hi, I’m Mark Rapp, and this is Rapp on Jazz. Art Blakey was an incredible drummer and bandleader who transformed the jazz scene. He burst onto the scene in the 1940s and collaborated with legends like ...

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Planting herbs in your kitchen is a great way to add home-grown flavor to any dish. It tastes good, it smells good, and it looks good, but what if it could look like modern art? Prepare to turn your ...

Julian Knox has been reading about prisons. “I was trying to find a language for the interior world,” he says. “I read about a test they did. Where there were prisoners that swear a lot, it ...

Their art has allowed Zozo Huval to reconnect with their roots. Photo by Olivia Perillo When Huval earned their bachelor’s degree, eight years later and in anthropology, they couldn’t deny their ...

The show starts at 7:30 p.m. Thao remembers when FAWK was packing the house at Indigenous Roots Studio in East St. Paul, and she’s looking forward to a night of laughter as a mix of familiar ...

Yolanda Barreto wins Artist of the Month by the Nature Coast Art League. Visit her exhibition at the Spring Hill Library through April. A watercolor painting of a butterfly has won Spring Hill ...

On the day that Blue Note Records issue Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers’ First Flight To Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings, saxophonist Wayne Shorter offers his remembrances of Blakey ...

Gary Bartz has been known to many as a trail blazer in the music business from the moment he started playing with Art Blakey at his father’s jazz ... of them he's a fan of—for the word's pejorative ...

These five Art Blakey albums were recorded between 1960 and 1964, a period of intense creativity for the brilliant drummer and the Jazz Messengers. A Night In Tunisia was recorded over two dates ...