- Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie: Open Culture shares photos of Louis Armstrong playing trumpet at the Great Sphinx and Dizzy Gillespie charming a snake in Pakistan, all part of various goodwill tours.
- Flecther Henderson, Don Redman: Jazznotes Blog discusses the big band of Fletcher Henderson and Don Redman's introduction of call and response between the reed and brass sections.
- Billie Holiday: On the anniversary of Billie Holiday’s death, Darryl Pinckney remembers Elizabeth Hardwick’s portrait of the singer, which first appeared in the March 4, 1976 issue of The New York Review and later as a chapter in her book of autobiographical fiction, Sleepless Nights.
- Charles Mingus: Open Culture shares a video of Charles Mingus explaining jazz composition.
- Art Tatum: At JazzWax, Marc Myers links to a documentary on Art Tatum.
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