Shades of Blue By James Kaplan, Translated by Kim Jae-sung, Epoch, 660 pages, 42,000 Korean won Jazz was above all a dazzling ...

Do you know the difference between a rock star and a jazz musician? A rock star plays three chords for 3,000 fans, while a jazz musician plays 3,000 chords for three fans. While many people revere ...

Highlights: Roberts' "As Serenity Approaches," Cohen's "In the Spirit of Baden" and Heard's "Market Song" The crowd: The Music Hall was about half full. "That's the thing about jazz," Marcus Roberts ...

I really like certain types of jazz and classical music, although I don't know a whole lot about jazz, and even less about classical. With classical, I know what I like when I hear it, but I cannot ...