Shades of Dizzy in Ankara, Brubeck In Warsaw and Goodman in Moscow. Jazz At Lincoln Center and the U.S. State Department team to again send American music overseas in a program reminiscent of the Jazz Ambassadors.

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Those princes of jazz, Ravi Coltrane and Branford Marsalis, spring from different lineages and represent differing heritages. Yet despite their pedigrees, they’re a breed apart. Both were born in the tumultuous ‘60s, both have struggled with their musical identities and in the intervening years have arrived at a place where…

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In gathering information for Cold War Cool: Jazz at the Front Lines of American Diplomacy, we contacted Darius Brubeck, keyboardist and son of Dave Brubeck, about his experiences traveling to Poland and elsewhere with his father, mother and brother in 1958. Darius has gained an international reputation for his South…

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The Beats of America’s 1950s stood far apart from the duty-bound, God-and-country, organizational-man times. It didn’t take long for the commercial culture to assimilate them in a wave of berets and bongos. The poetry, novels and art of the true counter-culture known as Beat is an honest reflection of American spirit and independence, commercial culture be damned.

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An ex love invites our French hero to a party and the thinking begins. “C’est le bouquet.”

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As long as New York’s circling Guggenheim Museum stands, as long as the Falling Water home spans a tumbling stream in Bear Run, Pennsylvania, as long as the Hollyhock and Ennis homes in Los Angeles invite repair and restoration, as long as Simon and Garfunkel gather for reunion concerts, Frank…

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