Frankie Manning was the greatest swing dancer alive. Then the world forgot about him.

The story of pianist Bill Evans and his lifelong obsession with a single song.

John Francis Anthony “Jaco” Pastorius III lay comatose in the intensive-care unit of a Fort Lauderdale hospital for nine days, unrecognized until he was spotted by the doctor who had delivered his children. Once he had been identified, local newspapers ran photographs to accompany stories headlined “DARK DAYS FOR A JAZZ GENIUS” and “JAZZ PERFORMER’S LIFE STRIKES A TRAGIC CHORD” and “THE LONG, SAD SLIDE OF A GIFTED MUSIClAN.” The various photographs seemed to be of different men.

How a jazz pianist disappeared into his music.

Watching the jazz singer in New York.

A profile of Gil-Scott Heron.

“Miles Davis was a deeply competitive artist, and the idea that he was losing audiences to white rock musicians with inferior skills—and, worse, had to open for them at concerts—inspired him to beat them at their own game. But he did so very much on his own terms.”

Remembering jazz musician Ornette Coleman.

A profile of Thelonious Monk.

How the icon’s personal struggles with identity fed his art.

A profile of the saxophone player at 82.

A profile of the legendary producer at the beginning of his career.

On jazz and the hipster psychopath.