Illustrator David Stone Martin was one of the most prolific and influential graphic designers of the postwar era, creating over 400 album covers. With his signature hand-drawn calligraphic lines, DSM perfectly captured the energy and spontaneity of the jazz idiom. ...
Trumpeter Clifford Brown, a brilliant improviser and a model for clean-living in jazz, was born (October 3) in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1930.Brown was a pioneering trumpeter when it came to bebop and hard-bop, an artist whose effervescent personality, warm tone and...
